News this wek that the final hurdle had been overcome to the redevelopment of NIB stadium. Work will commence on a brand new $82million main stand next year and will be ready for teh Reds kick off in 2013! au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... b-stadium/ Quote The Town of Vincent has accepted a multi-million-dollar offer from the State Government to hand over control of nib Stadium, paving the way for an $83 million planned upgrade. The council last night unanimously accepted an offer from the Government for a 50-year lease, which The West Australian understands includes a $5 million upfront payment followed by $25,000 a year for the remainder of the lease indexed at CPI. The Government included $82.5 million in the May Budget to build a new eastern stand but it wanted to control the process, including the design. He said the development would enhance the chances of the WA Rugby League’s continuing bid for an NRL licence for Perth.As part of the heads of agreement between the council and Government new deals will also have to renegotiated with major tenants Western Force, Perth Glory and WA Rugby League. The Government included $82.5 million in the May Budget to upgrade nib Stadium. Under the deal with the council it will have total control over the design and rebuild of the stadium.'"

News this wek that the final hurdle had been overcome to the redevelopment of NIB stadium. Work will commence on a brand new $82million main stand next year and will be ready for teh Reds kick off in 2013! au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/mp ... b-stadium/ Quote The Town of Vincent has accepted a multi-million-dollar offer from the State Government to hand over control of nib Stadium, paving the way for an $83 million planned upgrade. The council last night unanimously accepted an offer from the Government for a 50-year lease, which The West Australian understands includes a $5 million upfront payment followed by $25,000 a year for the remainder of the lease indexed at CPI. The Government included $82.5 million in the May Budget to build a new eastern stand but it wanted to control the process, including the design. He said the development would enhance the chances of the WA Rugby League’s continuing bid for an NRL licence for Perth.As part of the heads of agreement between the council and Government new deals will also have to renegotiated with major tenants Western Force, Perth Glory and WA Rugby League. The Government included $82.5 million in the May Budget to upgrade nib Stadium. Under the deal with the council it will have total control over the design and rebuild of the stadium.'"

Do you reckon RL in Western Australia would take off?

Bit of a bugger to get to games when you are living on the east coast.

Its not like you can just hop in the car and shoot off to Perth if your team is playing there and you are bored at home.

Its about 5 hours on a plane to get to Perth from Sydney! No idea how much a return ticket is these days but I bet you wouldnt get much change from 500 bucks. Thats an exy trip if you are taking the kids/girlfriend/boyfriend etc etc. And it would be sensible to have the night there and fly back the next day... so you are probably looking at about $100-150 for a reasonable hotel room on top of the cost of your flights and match ticket.


I think if Perth got an NRL club it would be a similar situation to the Storm. Its popular with the genuine footy fans but will never have the muscle to take over from AFL in WA.

Despite Perth being one of Barry McKenzies favourite cities... in my opinion its not an ideal location for a new NRL side. The Perth Western Reds or whatever they were called couldnt make a go of it in the SL days... cant see it working second time round either

About $100 change. Your probably spot on for the hotel though.
They don't need to out muscle the AFL boy's just create a niche market where 13000 people turn up to their home games every weekend and I think the NRL will consider it a success. That's all the Storm has done.

I like Perth.. Id like it to be a success. I think a lot of it would depend on them getting good results though.

Would the club manage to attract 13,000 week in week out if they werent winning many games though? I cant see them getting much in the way of 'away' support for their home games.....

That wasn't even what happened, twit.

They were sacrificed in the Super League War.

ARLT.

RL has had an established presence in perth for decades

they have a good junior base of players

they had a quite succesful local competition for decades which would see crowds of 10,000 or more for the grand final

they got a team in the arl which got great crowds

they were sacrificed as part of the peace talks for the game, betrayed by news ltd

a perth nrl club would be far stronger than the storm

Exactly touring team's use to play there i.e Great Britain/England, France etc

Been going since the early 50's.
Away fans? Since when has an NRL franchise rested on the ease of away fans getting there?icon_smile.gif
We had over 2000 members for our brief foray in the Jim Beam Cup, we are getting 13-15K for current games between two non Perth teams, we will top 15K avg imo in our first couple of years
You can't judge the potential by what happened in the SL era anymore than you can base the Gold Coasts or CC Bears on what happened in the past
WA adds a whole new live time slot option to TV
We have a population of close to 2mill and growing significantly every year
EVERY other pro Australian sport has a team based in Perth
We have one of highest spending capita per person in the world
Gallop loves us
We will be back if expansion happens in 2013

the reds should be included in the nrl as long as JB is banned from going to games until he apologises for his anti nrl comments

For instance his failure to pull up the twit BM for a blatant lie - even when it directly affects his alleged team.

I always told you Gallop loves you. Now will you listen?

If the Perth Western Reds had been making shed loads of bucks and been seen as good money making investment they wouldnt have had the plug pulled on them.

Fact.


Thanks for coming though

No ones saying they were making money, but then nobody was back then due to massive super inflated running costs due to the war. Being saddled with all travel expenses at a time when it cost $1500+ for a return trip to the East coast didn't help either. Reds were simply a quid pro quo for the cutting of some ARL loyal teams. News had no affinity to the Western Reds despite enticing them to jump ship and in fact pillaged the club to start up the Storm.

It was a political process. No wonder you didn't understand it.

Adelaide done as well or even better than Perth, I think the NRL should seriously look at both places.

I can't see any problems for rugby league re- expansion for the next 50 years to be honest.

We have a stack of places crying out for teams...the AFL has effectively none left and the last two were foisted upon an unwanting public. They have already spent a fortune advertising each of them, so they will get a few bandwagoners to start with. Over say a period of 10 years though, the AFL will be bailing them out constantly.

As for rugby league: Perth, Central Coast, Ipswich, Central Qld, Cairns, Sunshine Coast, NT, all want teams (from within Australia).

We still have the second and third largest cities in NZ to consider. Both would draw well.

PNG are crying out for a team, especially with infrastructure projects with PNG looming as growing areas of government interest a la yesterday. There is support from the highest levels of government on both sides for a PNG NRL team.

The possibilities are nearly limitless.

Agree 100%.

Out of all the codes out here, RL is definitely in the strongest position in regards to expansion.

Throw in Adelaide and the entire country (plus teams in NZ and PNG) is pretty much sown up.

All we hear though from AFL fans is that they are taking over NSW and Queensland and when they do it will kill off RL in Aus.
First of all I need to ask will this ever happen(with me not living in Aus).
We are also hearing from union fans is that when the Rebels take off in Melbourne it will destroy the Storm.

Going to be interesting to see how the Storm v Rebels, Reds v Force battles are won and lost. Realistically AFL will always be dominant in Perth and Melbourne and RL in Sydney and Brisbane so the real battles are for the number 2 spots in each of those cities and making that number 2 spot as strong as possible. Soccer are the outside bets but they seem to lurch from one financial crisis to another. Canberra interesting battle between RU and RL for the number 1 spot, as tonight showed, give them a winning Raiders team and they will wipe the floor with the Brumbies.

How the codes line up imo:
Sydney: 1.RL 2. AFL 3. RU 4. Soccer
Melbourne: 1.AFL 2. Soccer 3. RL 4. RU
Brisbane: 1. RL 2.AFL 3. RU 4. Soccer
Canberra: 1. RU 2. RL 3. Soccer 4. AFL
Perth: 1. AFL 2. RU 3. Soccer 4. RL
Adelaide: 1. AFL 2. Soccer 3. RL 4. RU
Darwin: 1. AFL 2. RL 3. Soccer 4. RU
Hobart: 1. AFL 2. Soccer. 3. RU 4. RL

Sydney: RL 1. RU 2. Soccer 3. AFL 4.
Brisbane: RL 1. RU 2. AFL 3. Soccer 4.
Melbourne: AFL1. Soccer 2. RL 3. RU 4.
Perth: AFL 1. Soccer 2. RU 3. RL 4.
Adelaide: AFL 1. Soccer 2. RL/RU 3/4.
Canberra: RL 1. RU 2. AFL 3. Soccer 4.
Darwin: RL1. AFL 2. Soccer 3. RU 4.
Tas: AFL 1. RU 2. Soccer 3. RL 4.

It will never happen CJ... calm down ffs!

People that like AFL.. will still like AFL.

People that like Union.. will still like Union.

People that like League... will still like league.


Those that like watching all forms of team sports... will still continue to like watching all forms of team sports.


Relax mate.

You will give yourself a coronary

Thanks for worrying Barry but I am fine.
The thought of the Rebels taking over the Storm is making me p155 myself laughing.

Yeah union is the big game in Canberra.





ARLT. 27,000 Canberrans disagree.