Announced in todays WA State Govt:

[iThe Government is also expected to tip in $80 million for a new eastern stand at East Perth's ME Bank stadium. Sports Minister Terry Waldron is committed to having plans in place for a full staged redevelopment of the stadium by July, with speculation its cost has grown to up to $260 million.

But those plans depend on a rent agreement with the Town of Vincent.

Town chief executive John Giorgi said yesterday they were "miles apart" but he was confident of an agreement.[/i

good news.

keep pumping, you'll get your team eventually.

I might disagree with your views at times, but the reds are def #1 on the agenda.

And in other brilliant news the WA juniors showed why WA is the 3rd strongest RL State in Australia!

WA 18's Sweep the Nationals

Western Australia enjoyed a stunning win against Victoria on Sunday, with an after the siren 16 to 14 win in the final game of the under 18 National Affiliated States Championships for Rugby League.
After accounting easily for South Australia 50 nil on Friday they followed up with a strong 26 to 18 win against the Northern Territory on Saturday, it set up the sudden death final game against Victoria who was also undefeated.
In recent years, the Victorian side has enjoyed the benefits of the Melbourne Storm development program and been a dominant force in the national series. The win by WA vindicates their decision to refocus their national team to the under 18 SG Ball competition and the development of the junior program.
>From this national series, a combined Affiliated States’ side is selected to play against NSW and Queensland teams in the peak National Schoolboys Championships in July this year.
Only eligible schoolboys can be in this side and of the 9 playing for Western Australia, six were chosen. They were;
Jesse Prasad (Bulldogs), Marco Muscatello (Joondalup), Eddie Proudler (South Perth), Charlie Abel (Joondalup), Justin Ferris (Rockingham), Patrick Murphy (Joondalup)

central coast are well ahead of them

if queensland had a strong bid now theyd be the 2nd team in.

lucky its central queensland bidding and not logan or wellington

Nice one JB. They do need to step it up in SG Ball, but they've been the number 3 state for a while ain't they?

Good luck with the bid. I told you a year or so ago the NRL were interested, but you wouldn't believe me. They help pay for teams to go over there for their fixtures.

I mentioned earlier in the year that the draw for 2010 shows they are more than under consideration...

That much is obvious without sharing a coffee with Gallop at the Clovelly a la booster.

we were but Victoria has been taking the titles for the last couple of years due to the Storm finally investing in jnr development in Melbourne. Good to see us wrestling it back, I can see quite a rivallary developing!

NT have got stronger and stronger each year and there link up with NQ seems to be paying dividends.

For our first year at SG Ball we weren't too bad and I was pleased to see how we improved as the season went on. We gave a lot away in size but skill wise we looked good and had 2 or 3 players that looked real prospects.