groundsharing can work well.

it could be a good idea for SL clubs too if they forget the idea that it entails a merger.

we have 2 clubs sharing Homebush stadium, and 2 clubs sharing the SFS.

but a club like the tigers plays home games at 3 grounds, which are around 2 hours apart by drive.

imagine a club trying to represent two different parts of london

It simply wouldnt happen.
Same as that you have say 2000 pass holders for a team that averages about 13,000.
The other thing I couldnt work out is say for example the Sharks go bust and have to relocate to say Perth, that wouldn't happen over here.
Its definately a different type of audience.

why?

gets a club in a new market plus when the club travels to sydney it will get fans from cronulla.

i really hope cronulla do go broke and the roosters as well. they add nothing to our scence.

I meant that sort of thing wouldnt happen in Britain.
Fans are very passionate and yet fickle at the same time.
If the Wolves relocated to say Leicester, i'd take a passing interest but I certainly wouldnt follow them. Id either go and watch one of the other Warrington teams or Go and watch Leigh/Widnes.
From what i've seen of the aussie game in recent times the NRL would benefit tremendously from one of those sides relocating. You remove some of the sydney bias and you could put a ready made establishment into an expansion area, could an incentive not be given?
Lastly Wests has been a success of a merger hasn't it? Over here very very few work out well, Gateshead saved hull and allowed them to kick on and be the team they've become but I bet about 10 people out of their now 14,000 crowds probably followed them across. As for Hudds/Sheff..well, lets not go there

Similar sort of thing happened when Illawarra bailed out St George.

The problem continued when they let them play games back at Wogorah rather than keeping the whole set up down Illawarra where they belong

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Is this another racist jibe of some description?

It's a derogatory term used by most people to refer to the area of 'Kogarah' in the same way as the delightful Vietnamese populated suburb of Cabramatta is also commonly referred to as 'Stabramatta' owing to the high instances of knife crime that allegedly took place between warring families of Vietnamese people that live there.

Racist??

Naaah.



The word 'Wog' in Australia is commonly used to describe various ethnic groups in the same way as people from the UK are referred to as 'Soap Dodgers'

Right or wrong, thats just the way it is.

Including you, it seems.



You're on a UK board - '' is racist. Not that the mods give a crap.

I can't personally see the word '' is any more racist than 'pom' 'convict' or indeed any other general term used on here to describe people.

But if you find it offensive please accept my apologies and rest assured that I won't use it on here.

McKenzie is a first class blow-hole. He get's owned on every thread and his knowledge of Rugby League is sp. When he talks about "footy" is he talking about the round ball game? He sure knows fook all about the oval one.

I refer to the post I made some days ago.

The irony of that statement is beyond belief



Have you ever actually READ the stuff you post?????

That's because you're an idiot.

It's not on the swear filter??

Nor are Packi, yid, gook, slope and kaffir etc.

Presumably they're all fine as they're not in the swear filter. Looks like this website is going to become an interesting place from now on.

It's more of a derogatory word than a racist one.

Strangely enough a large proportion of the Lebanese Community in Sydney have adopted the word as a term of endearment towards each other.

Willard I think you are getting off topic here and I strongly suggest you don't!

This is a footy forum!

Wrong – and it's now on the swear filter.

Well done.

Might be worth adding the others that Willard typed as well.

Sounds a lot like another racist term used commonly amongst certain groups, but not deigned to be acceptable in common usage.

Do you mean 'Pom'???

I'm not uncomfortable using it.

I do prefer 'Soap Dodger' though

how is lov-ely a rascist term ????

The fact that (British descended) Australians adopted a racist term to refer to fellow Australians of a slightly Mediterranian background doesn't make it not racist.


And that's enough diversion.

In the UK we have a small matter of Soccer...

The premiership - on average, over 35,000 per team per week turn out to watch premiership footy

The Championship - on average, over 20,000 per team per week turn out to watch Championship footy

League 1 / 3rd tier - The top 4 best supported clubs in english footballs 3rd tier have an average gate of between 17 and 24000

Now consider what it costs to watch english league football...League 1 / 3rd tier, costs about the same as watching Rugby Leagues Superleague and at some clubs, it costs more!

Football is the UKs number one sporting attraction - over a million people every week pay to go and watch live football and a lot pay through the nose for it - at both home and away games. Watching football in the UK is an expensive do!

Then Rugby league has to fight with the likes of cricket, motoracing and rugby union for the rest of the people who can afford to go out and watch sport.

Personally, i think RL in the UK is doing well to attract the support it does considering what other sports it is battling with for fans.

In australia, isnt RL held in the same regard and english football? isnt it the 'premier' sporting attraction? it certainly doesnt have to fight for support with a concept that is as well supported as football is in the UK.

for the above stated reasons, i dont think you can make a fair comparison between attendances in Superleague and the NRL.

oh and whilst were here, its ' pohm ', and i find it ironic that you aussies use the term in reference to us english.

POHM

POME

POMMY

POM


It's all the same



Not sure why you find it 'ironic' that we refer to the English as 'Poms'?????