I feel the same way. It'd be great to have another professional sports team from the Gold Coast to support over the summer months. As a city, we're becoming a lot more prominent in the basketball world with local Jack McVeigh making it into the NBA this season and Gold Coast schools TSS + Hillcrest winning the male and female national schools championship last year. Lots of positive signs for the future and if we can secure this brand new arena in Southport then sky is the limit for what we can achieve as a city.
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Mini GF thoughts on the Broncos trying to force their players to move away from the beautiful city? “I never liked the idea of Broncos players living on the Gold Coast” is the exact quote used by a Broncos staffer. I don't buy this theory that living on the Gold Coast is affecting the Broncos' team culture/performance so much that it's having a negative impact on field. Darren Lockyer and Corey Parker lived on the GC for many years while the Broncos were successful. The same can be said about several prominent Lions players like Jonathan Brown who lived on the GC while they were successful. I think the Broncos are just looking for a scape goat to explain why they went from Grand Finalists last year to 12th this year and it's easy to blame the Gold Coast. Their issues are deeper than that.
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Reece Walsh and Patrick Carrigan could be forced to move in brutal Broncos development
Broncos officials are reportedly concerned about some of the players' living arrangements. Read more here.
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HeyMini GF thoughts on the Broncos trying to force their players to move away from the beautiful city? “I never liked the idea of Broncos players living on the Gold Coast” is the exact quote used by a Broncos staffer. I don't buy this theory that living on the Gold Coast is affecting the Broncos' team culture/performance so much that it's having a negative impact on field. Darren Lockyer and Corey Parker lived on the GC for many years while the Broncos were successful. The same can be said about several prominent Lions players like Jonathan Brown who lived on the GC while they were successful. I think the Broncos are just looking for a scape goat to explain why they went from Grand Finalists last year to 12th this year and it's easy to blame the Gold Coast. Their issues are deeper than that.
Reece Walsh and Patrick Carrigan could be forced to move in brutal Broncos development
Broncos officials are reportedly concerned about some of the players' living arrangements. Read more here.
Thanks for caring about my opinion.
Here is a copy and paste of what I said on the Titans Forum yesterday
“Gee I hope the Drongoes follow through with making their players live in the River Sewer City.
Can’t stand seeing the Drongoes imposters living in our community. Makes me sick.
Better still though if they follow through with it I think our ability to recruit players will skyrocket.”
It's a really weird thought process/policy. Imagine the Brisbane Lions telling Joe Daniher that he needed to move from Byron Bay to Brisbane because it was hurting 'team culture'. They would have never been able to recruit him if they tried to pull something like that and he may have considered joining the Suns instead, like you alluded to.
Maguire is not off to the best start at Red Hill. Maybe it opens the door for Reece Walsh to head home to the Titans?
I can’t see us chasing Reece Walsh. Sometime this year Keano Kini will be signed to a big money long term deal to be the GC Fullback.
Kini must be the real deal then. He's a PBC boy, if I'm not mistaken?
Yes he is. We brought him and his family over from Auckland maybe 4 years ago.
And yes he’s the real deal and unlike Reece he totally has his head perfectly screwed on.
It's looking promising. High profile Gold Coasters are throwing their support behind the Gold Coast Arena proposal and it appears that council are willing to fund it, so we won't have to rely on money from the state or federal governments. We're getting closer to re-entry into the NBL and finally having a suitable venue for most musical acts.
Revealed: what Gold Coasters think of boutique stadium
High-profile Gold Coasters like the site and plan for a proposed boutique indoor stadium in Southport - regardless of what it looks like.
New plans, released in the first week of November and revealed by the Bulletin on Friday, showed Southport’s Carey Park as home to the council’s proposed “world class indoor sports and entertainment venue”.
Fresh plans project the venue to deliver $1.5bn in economic output in its first decade, putting an extra $700m into the economy.
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Why wouldn’t they just renovate the Gold Coast exhibition centre?
I think they're restricted by the water to the west and the GC Highway to the east. I also think they're using this project as a trigger for revitalisation in Southport. Broadbeach doesn't really need revitalisation, but Southport definitely does.
