nah, there's not enough teams in NSW yet!

Can't help having a dig at NSW can you?

If it wasn't for NSW, you would never have had a team in the first place idiot.

Just piissoff back where you came from, scumbag.

ohhhh tough guy. Somebody needs a...

You know, people want RL to expand, but s like you who continually attack Sydney clubs are the ones who are turning people against expansion into Perth.

I'd love you to come to Sydney, walk into a Leagues club and tell everyone their club is garbage and should be kicked out.

I know for a fact, you'd be the one kicked out, straight between the eyes literally.

So give it a friggin rest like you bloody well said you were going too a month back, you willhave your precious @#$%^% team soon enough.

And when the crowds are garbage, you'll get exactly what you've dished out for years to everyone elses clubs.

without sydney clubs we wouldnt be in a position to expand.

if you love league sydney is the number 1 place on earth

2009 Eeels home avg 13,127

geez we've got a lot to live up to!

Come on JB give the Sydney clubs some slack,we need as many strong RL clubs as possible including the ones in Sydney.

yeh I just love winding Dally and his cronies up! A failing Sydney is a failing RL in this country, I agree it needs to be strong, where I guess I disagree is with those that think it is strong at the moment.

go weagles.

Yeah, we are really struggling in Sydney. Bulldogs 23400 Tigers 19901 Dragons 17897 Parramatta 17840 Souths 16216 Manly 13448 Penrith 13232 Roosters 12941 Sharks 11627 stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/2010.html A post from LU forums.leagueunlimited.com/showp ... count=2511 Quote This is how we compare with past seasons after the same number of rounds. Average (Aggregate) Games Played 2005: 16,161 (1,777,669) 110 2006: 15,310 (1,699,359) 111 2007: 15,577 (1,869,21icon_cool.gif 120 2008: 15,931 (1,832,033) 115 2009: 15,836 (1,837,009) 116 2010: 16,413 (1,903,901) 116 So encouragingly we are for the first time since 2005, still above 16K after 16 rounds.... In 2005, we fell below 16K only in Rounds 18 and 19.... if some results and weather can go our way, we might be able to stay above 16K which puts us in a good position for the run home at the end of the year....'" The way things are going, Australian Rugby League is heading for a record season this year, but according to some, RL is failing, esp in Sydney.

Yeah, we are really struggling in Sydney. Bulldogs 23400 Tigers 19901 Dragons 17897 Parramatta 17840 Souths 16216 Manly 13448 Penrith 13232 Roosters 12941 Sharks 11627 stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/2010.html A post from LU forums.leagueunlimited.com/showp ... count=2511 Quote This is how we compare with past seasons after the same number of rounds. Average (Aggregate) Games Played 2005: 16,161 (1,777,669) 110 2006: 15,310 (1,699,359) 111 2007: 15,577 (1,869,21icon_cool.gif 120 2008: 15,931 (1,832,033) 115 2009: 15,836 (1,837,009) 116 2010: 16,413 (1,903,901) 116 So encouragingly we are for the first time since 2005, still above 16K after 16 rounds.... In 2005, we fell below 16K only in Rounds 18 and 19.... if some results and weather can go our way, we might be able to stay above 16K which puts us in a good position for the run home at the end of the year....'" The way things are going, Australian Rugby League is heading for a record season this year, but according to some, RL is failing, esp in Sydney.

It's all relative I suppose.

nah relative is whom people marry in perth

9,800 at the CC game at the weekend.

Take out the Storm and you have 2 of the worst teams in the NRL this year playing there.

The CC people aren't idiots, they know their footy.

Knowing and going. Two different things.

Grahame Park is an ace little ground, close to the railway, a huge leagues club across the road and pubs not far away. Yet the attendances continue to disappoint.

Would you go and watch Cronulla with the way they have been going for 2 years?

they dont need to support out of town teams knowing they will have their own in 2 years time.

The Sharks wouldn't be anyone's choice of the menu.

Even so, one of the surest ways an area can show sufficient demand exists to support its own team is to go & watch other teams when they turn up there to play. CC just isn't sticking both hands in the air and screaming PICK ME.

Believe when see..

I think most people know that this bid is alot more about the North Sydney Bears than it is a CC team.

Back on Thread....
Wellington or Christchurch would be great, but it's a while away IMO.

To the poster who mentioned the soccer team in wellington, they didn't out-strip the Union lot, but they did get some good crowds at the business end of the season and ticket sales have been pretty good for the coming season.

Wellingtonians are keen to get behind their teams, no matter what the sport, but the cake tin (it's not an oval BTW......it's round) is a pretty soulless place unless you get 20k in it.....and the dross served up for the last few years in super 14 union have seen a massive drop in attendances (10k down on 2006 average 37%)) at that level. The Wellington Lions Union team have been pretty consistent...with gates of around 10k for the last 5 years.......
A wellington NRL side is at least 10 years away.....but if the NZRL are clever, they may well apply sooner...especially if the All Blacks Choke (again) next year in the RUWC. I have looked for information regarding ticket sales for the England game later this year, but can't see any....I would hope that it will sell out (35k) and if it does, then that would show what could be achieved if there was a team here.
I have enjoyed the amateur season here this year......it's not a bad standard and gets a few decent crowds. I have no doubt that an NRL team in wellington would average between 15,000 and 20,000 attendances, if priced cometitively and well marketed.....and many of the fans I have met at games this year agree.

10,300 at Adelaide this weekend. Not a bad turn out considering how neglected the game is in SA.

in a construction site too, that will have probably turned a few off going to the game, the capacity is around 14k atm.

how come it wasn't played at Hindmarsh?

I think it was the South Aus cricket trust that offered the Doggies the chance to play there.

Pity the ground was like it was, 10k in a 14k demolishion site isn't too bad when you think about it.

I'd love to see each of the mainland states with at least 1 team each, a full national code which would be the envy of all sport in Australia, we only need 2 more, Perth which will probably happen soon and then Adelaide somewhere in the future hopefully.