AFL overtaking NRL in QLD

[Johnny Bananas]

And yet today you are bigger than ever,

Don't confuse the afterglow of a premiership victory with the new normal. If a premiership victory always meant lasting off field success, the entry of the Suns wouldn't have harmed the Lions at all given they had three premierships within the past ten years.

and there is also a second club which, while struggling on field, is growing along fine off field and doing wonders for participation and interest in the gold coast.

Yes they are, but remember how much they've had to struggle to get to this point. There were plenty of absolute halfwits in the media and here on BF who wanted to take away their licence at various points in the past 15 years. Those people should never be listened to ever again on any matters to do with expansion.

I am not so sure that a third Brisbane club is that bad an idea... yes it will hurt the lions in the short and perhaps medium term, but long term it would make the league and code stronger. And that's the point.

Sure, in the long term. But you need to survive the short and medium term to make it in the long term. The Lions are not at that point yet, and won't be at least until the stadium question is sorted.

 

[Fire]

Don't confuse the afterglow of a premiership victory with the new normal.

I didn't? I just said you were bigger than ever.
Yes, you have obviously ebbed and flowed with your ladder position as all teams do, but over the past 20 years since your three-peat, you have grown. And in that time you have had the suns move in. So footy, over SEQ, is much stronger than just the Lions now.

Yes they are, but remember how much they've had to struggle to get to this point.

Have they though? On field sure, but have they really off? They seem to be kicking all the goals they need to be.

There were plenty of absolute halfwits in the media and here on BF who wanted to take away their licence at various points in the past 15 years. Those people should never be listened to ever again on any matters to do with expansion.

There still are, and they are ignorant to what is actually happening and the strategy. Complaints about costs and confusion with on field success just show they have NFI. We both understand this.

Sure, in the long term. But you need to survive the short and medium term to make it in the long term. The Lions are not at that point yet, and won't be at least until the stadium question is sorted.

The Lions aren't going anywhere. Realistically you would be looking for a ~2030 entry anyway, so we aren't talking about tomorrow. So if the stadium isn't sorted by then, then you probably need the pull of another club to help it get sorted. 22 games is twice the case of 11.

Look, I am not putting Brisbane 2 above Canberra. I am really hoping for a Canberra team for 20. But I would much rather see a second Brisbane team over a third Perth one.