Yes.

And the storm are down there doing their thing without all the noise, they'll end up being a big club.

Anyone doubting The Storm have a presence is kidding themselves.

Great range of sponsors - banking, finance, cars, caravans - on their jerseys alone.

You can see it in Melbourne - their colours are quite evident out in the city.

They are doing a great job and should improve out of the new ground.

You can imagine they would be going absolute gangbusters with some decent TV and press coverage; which they still have to fight for on account of AFL bias.

Nothing else needs to be said.

they have the new ground finished as well!

School time yet?

How many at Parramatta today? Lovel sunny Sunday afternoon, minor premiers v's near neighbours, decent enough stadium. Yeh I am sure AFL is cacking itself!

You know the NRL can't do anything until 2013 at the earliest, yet you keep whinging.

Are you going to do this everyday until 2013?

More at Parra than watching the Reds

for now, tick tick tick!

you are an idiot JB

seriously i want perth to get a team except for you

can you please move to adelaide?

It's getting that way isn't it.

seriously comparing parra to perth

one big reason the game is booming now is off the back of what the eels did last season and the eels / dogs semi

Yes, and Parra would have to be one of the most popular teams in the country out of all codes.

Perth RL could never get as much support.

13,000 Parra fans turned up in perfect conditions to watch the GF's. yeh we've got no chance!

what are you on about?

the crowd was 15,602.

And manly don't like to travel.

I know you want to get one up on a Sydney side or two, but there's no reason to lie.

do you feel lonely living in an AFL dominated state away from where RL is big in oz?

channel 9 news "parras extraordinory come from behind win"

see what i mean about publicity dunce

watching the game I saw plenty of Manly jerseys in the crowd hence a guesstimate 13,000 Parra fans, give or take a few hundred. Either way it is poor given the hype leading into the season about how Sydney is "buzzing" and RL is back blah blah...

everybody on 2gb talkback today is talking about the eels

they sure are getting a lot of publicity for RL

id say the nrls glamour team

eels / saints GF would be massive

You'd find a way to whinge if it sold out, your track record for running the code and its Sydney clubs down speaks for itself.

Those Sydney clubs were the same ones that let your mob into the comp in the first place, where's ya loyalty?

Being dissapointed by SOME aspects of our great game is not disloyal. It shows ambition and a belief that we can and HAVE TO get better in alot of areas and for alot of teams. After reading all the hype pre season and reading all the excuses put forward by fans as to why our crowds remain stagnant this was a perfect example of the problems the game is facing.

As I said on the field brilliant, off it we have miles to go. Just because I don;t live with my head in the sand doesn;t mean anything. What the frick does the Reds being admitted in '95 and kicked out in '97 have to do with the way I feel about the game in 2010? You talk about loyalty, where was the loyalty to all the WA people who had worked their backsides off to get the Reds up and runing or the Perth fans that bought into the club and spent their hard earned supporting it for 3 years. Just to get shafted because News wanted Melbourne and ARL wanted a pound of flesh. Please don't talk to me about loyalty.

ps I am not the one bigging NRL up and running AFL down, that is the real joke. When the NRL has ONE club anywher near the size and strength of our little cities AFL clubs then we can start taking the pish!

I understand that, but your problem is, you expect it all straight away, it takes time to change things.

Look at the memberships, 2 years ago we had 10k all up, now we have 100,000+ 2 years later.

1 year ago we were no where near having a IC, this year the code has moved forward that much it's going to be done with by the end of the year.

1 year ago, all we heard was trouble with off field issues, this year it's been all about the footy on field.

Last year there was talk about the NRL getting the same or smaller amount of $$$ for the TV rights with no hope of any other TV station bidding, this year we have more TV stations taking the fight to ch9 and saying they are going to go after the game and some in the media saying we could get more than the AFL.

The game has grown in all areas from juniors, memberships, TV ratings, crowds and money from sponsors and merchandise.

I know you want a team bad, but we won't be seeing anything until at least 2013.

We have Perth, PNG, Central Coast, Central QLD, Logan and maybe another NZ team all wanting to get in, you don't see this with any other sport in Australia.

The almighty AFL are forcing teams on people who don't want them because they know if they don't get in, their code is going to really suffer down the line, but putting teams in where they are not wanted is the worse thing they could do.

The S14 Union mob can't get 3 decent teams going in Australia, they have 4 now and they are struggling, what do they do? Bring in a 5th, yeah great thinking.

The Soccer mob have murdered their comp by expanding to fast, and they are bringing in 2 more sides in the next 2 seasons, silly isn't it?

RL is sitting back and waiting to strike at the right time, let these other codes blow their money.

You'll get your team, but we have to make sure we can afford it first because we don't want to be like the AFL having to prop up teams for decades that the people DON'T want, we don't want to be like the Soccer who are bleeding millions and expand for expansions sake, and we are not that desperate like the ARU to get anything we possibly can at any expense getting tonked at all levels just to have the look of a national comp.

Patience is needed.

ok I'll call a truce!
I have been waiting 12 years already though!

2 more years mate, 2 years.

I reckon the reds are def going to be the next cab off the rank.

hmm i wish i shared your optimism. Depending on how much more TV deal it could be no expansion. Reckon Bears are a shoe in on CC then it will come down to a fight between ourselves and whatever Q'land bid gets put forward. Hopefully the NRL take the SL route and expand with one safe team and one expansion team each time.

All we can do is keep selling out games and hope to find a decent sponsor or backer in the next 12 months.

TV schedule will be in Perths favour.