People who say there isn't enough talent are overlooking the fact that the talent isn't spread evenly. There is plenty of talent playing backup roles at the top teams that are better than the starters for the bottom teams
There's plenty of talent. Money is the problem investors that are willing to wait a long time before getting a return. Money is the only issue. Money for grass routes footy clubs Money for indigenous/Polynesian/aussie rural camps & scholarships. There's just not enough money at the moment for success. Especially During covid I'd imagine now would be the worst time possible for expansion why even bring it up? 😅
I hope they maintain the name Redcliffe Dolphins, it is synonymous with Rugby League in Queensland. Clubs in Sydney are named after suburbs they represent and this name would represent qlders in the southern end.
depends where you expand to. if you have somewhere like perth, set up an academy or something (unlike melbourne who setup in sunshine coast) and there might be enough tallent
Two divisions/conferences of 12 with promotion and relegation between. The 8 expansion teams: Redcliff dolphins North Sydney Bears PNG hunters A western Brisbane team 2nd NZ team Adelaide rams reboot 2nd Melbourne team ? WA team ? Cant happen overnight though got to put in ground work now. Pencil in 2024
Honestly, as someone who was born and raised in Adelaide but now lives in NSW, I can certainly confirm that Adelaide ain’t ever gonna have an NRL team. Big AFL and cricket town, and just very little to no support for league down there.
A team in Ipswich where the Brisbane jets would be based will be huge, lots of pacific islanders & indigenous kids live in this area, the population is booming due to interstate migration & affordable housing, the Ipswich cbd is undergoing a massive make over, lots of infrastructure, lots of jobs, a strong economy for years to come, a team in this area is a no Brainer, If Wayne Bennett comes in & what he brings to the table, his record speaks for itself
@@clevelandwilliams5922 Firstly, Glebe were the first club. Secondly, Ipswich have a proud history of League going all the way back to 1908-9, so lets honour that and not force an NSWRL thing on a team that has a proud history already
@@mwilkins1644 well if that’s the case we can merge both clubs and celebrate foundation history. I don’t like it when other clubs formed take the emblem of another club without the recognition of history to the game. Ipswich & Newtown both are included in this team you’ll have NSW supporters as well as QLD.
Pretty much all the clubs at present are city based clubs - I would like to see a team representing the country/rural areas and 1 from WA and NT. I think now is the time to do it. I think the season has still been great to watch regardless of the covid situation. Perhaps multiple games at same stadium is the way forward.
@@MELODYMUNRO well NT doesn't play league so I don't think that would work. There an afl territory through and through and they don't even have an afl team yet
@@tobymurphy6744 wrong. It's a battleground with a few different sports played. It's who gets there first. AFL gives more support to the NT then the NRL do. Being scared of the AFL is getting the NRL nowhere. The AFL obviously isn't scared of you considering there last expansions were in NSW and QLD.
@@zaco21_ yeah imagine if they had there own brand And some local heroes it only takes a few years to generate ! Just need some cash flow or super league 😂 ! An push it !
@@Alekosdw yeah, I’d love to see a team in Adelaide, but the thing is they can’t play at the Adelaide Oval Every Single week due to AFL. They will have to play most games at Coopers Stadium and play 3 At The Adelaide Oval
More teams sure , we should have another team in Brisbane , another in New Zealand too then add another in Perth then finally it would look like a NATIONAL league
There’s nothing national about rugby league, another team in Brisbane is a failure to use vision for the future of the game. The AFL is laughing at league
I think we will be eventually expanding, but we're locking down areas like Sydney, Newcastle, brisbane and the rest of Queensland to consolidate that it's NRL territory and stop AFL from overthrowing league as the main sport
100% expansion agree with Freddie. NRL is currently stagnating. There should an extra team in Brisbane, NZ and Melbourne. There should only be 2 teams in Sydney no more. We currently have 8 teams for Sydney alone its too much and we dont have massive funding like the EPL to maintain that number of clubs and support with only the fanbase of Sydney, i know people will hate this idea but it is also the reason the salary cap is so low because half the sydney clubs are struggling to afford it they are all competing for the same fanbase in the one city, if they spread out the sydney teams to other areas of Australia, the sport should gain more backers and supporters. The rest of the 6 sydney teams should be split into 2 teams for Perth, 2 for Adelaide, 1 Darwin/1 Alice Springs. If the newer city teams have an already established franchise representing their city i reckon it would garner a better fanbase since they know the clubs has history rather than starting from scratch like the Gold Coast Titans who didnt exactly kick off quite well.
I think we should do a system where 12 teams are in the first division, 12 teams are in second division & 12 teams in third division and make it if you finish in the bottom 3 you are entered in a best of 3 series against the top 3 teams of the lower division to fight for there right to remain, would be easy to make new teams and enter them in 3rd division and they can fight there way to first division & do a top 6 to win the comp Example: Division 1 -----------‐-------------------‐----------------------- 1. Melbourne Storm (VIC) 2. South Sydney Rabbitohs (NSW) 3. Sydney City Roosters (NSW) 4. Manly Sea Eagles (NSW) 5. Penrith Panthers (NSW) 6. Parramatta Eels (NSW) ---------------------------------------------------------- 7. Newcastle Knights (NSW) 8. Canterbury Bulldogs (NSW) 9. Gold Coast Titans (QLD) --------------------------------------------------------- 10. Brisbane Broncos (QLD) 11. Auckland Warriors (NZ) 12. Canberra Raiders (ACT) -------------------‐----‐------‐-----------‐‐-------‐------- Division 2 ------------------‐--------------------------------‐------- 1. North Queensland Cowboys (QLD) 2. Central Queensland Capras (QLD) 3. South Queensland Jets (QLD) ------------------------------------------------------------ 4. North Brisbane Dolphins (QLD) 5. South Brisbane Tigers (QLD) 6. Sunshine Coast Falcons (QLD) 7. Northern Pride (QLD) 8. Western Suburb Magpies (NSW) 9. North Sydney Bears (NSW) ---------------------------------------------------------- 10. Illawarra Steelers (NSW) 11. St George Dragons (NSW) 12. Cronulla Sharks (NSW) --------------‐-------------‐-------‐----------------------- Division 3 -----‐-‐-----------‐--------------------------------------- 1. West Coast Giants (WA) 2. Fremantle Wolfpack (WA) 3. South Perth Lions (WA) ------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Port Lincoln Cougars (SA) 5. Adelaide Stallions (SA) 6. Port Adelaide Rams (SA) 7. North Melbourne Hawks (VIC) 8. South Melbourne Wildcats (VIC) 9. Papa New Guinea Hunters (PNG 10. Wellington Orcus (NZ) 11. Christchurch Chiefs (NZ) 12. Tasmanian Devils (TAS) ----‐----------------------------‐------------------------- 12 New South Wales Teams, 9 Queensland Teams, 3 South Australian Teams, 3 Western Australian Teams, 3 Victorian Teams, 3 New Zealand Teams, 1 Australian Capital Territory Team, 1 Tasmanian team, 1 Papa New Guinea Team with the bottom of division 3 to play whatever team looking to enter the competition
Bloody oath expand, it’s about bloody time, how can you have a national rugby league but all the teams are on one side of the country, bring back the north sydney bears, one new team in Qld, one new the team in Melbourne, one new team in South Australia and two new teams in Western Australia
Ludicrous it hasent happened yet, just shows the incompetence of the bigwigs in the NRL HQ over the last decade. Should add 4 teams to take it to 20. The game would explode nationally and the talent is there. Youd overnight double the population in the NRL world. Youd have an extra 10 million people dumped into the NRL to choose the next Thurston or Cronk from. Not just from NSW or QLD. Instead of kids wanting to play for the Crows or the Dockers theyll grow up with their NRL team. Plenty of league fans in those areas too and plenty of Ex pats from England. League is the national sport of PNG for Christ sake. The untapped talent and marketing alone in PNG should be enough to do all 4 teams. In the late 80s they started the Polynesian expansion to get them into League and now teams are 75% Islanders. Plenty of PNG'rs running around to not only fill a Port Moresby team but also filter throughout the other 19 NRL teams. 1 in Perth 1 in Brisbane 1 in Adelaide 1 in PNG
The last time the NRL expanded was in 94/95. At that point there was about 5% of the playing talent from New Zealand. Now there is about 35% of the playing talent from New Zealand. So there has to be a heap of good first grade footballers that are playing in England, France or the NSW cup or Q cup that have been over looked because of age or what ever just crying out for a crack.
The difference between the top 6 and bottom 10 is huge so just throwing more teams in is not the answer. Maybe a second division would be the answer if you have more teams????. Do we have enough quality players??
Give an NRL team to a state that could not give two hoots about NRL.... Meanwhile Central Coast have been after a team forever but keep giving new team to Gold Coast. They are at team 3 now......
@@adamwebb831 While that is true, from a money standpoint and for building the game, a 2nd Melbourne team would probably be great for the game, I mean Melbournians love their sport, they'll pay to watch whatever sport is on, it will create a rivalry in Melbourne for the Storm, which would drive up local Juniors starting footy and it will be a big boost in general for the game. It won't be an overnight thing....but it would pay off over time.
We don’t need another team in Brisbane. We have the broncos. Down the road we have the titans. You’re not gonna get another 30,000 people going to games just because you add another team up here. Especially if you’re still wanting to charge us $50 minimum to go and see it, it’s not viable. You split Brisbane up you’ll just have another Sydney situation with between 1-10k people watching one team and another 1-10k watching the other team. Give other qld locations a team. Qld is the heartland of nrl, not just Brisbane. Rocky would be great, people drive hours to go to the cowboys give them another team closer.
Nevermind ausy teams we need another NZ team. Ausys out to keep nz where it is with league, they know if we have another team NZ rugby league will improve which scares them
@@munkmanmunkman Ok fine by me. Broncs Titans and Cowboys can play in Q cup and you guys can play with yourselves. Been an advocate for it for a while now.
Time to expand? Why do you want to add more water to a whiskey that's already 70% water? The comp is so thin on talent it's not funny. Adding ANOTHER team to the comp already dilutes a very watered down comp. Currently there are only 4 teams who can genuinely win the competition (Storm, Panthers, Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs) while the 12 other clubs are simply making up the numbers and you want to add ANOTHER team in this mess of a comp? 75% of the competition can't win the comp but let's add more to that. Please.
Plenty of talent ready to go Bring back some old teams bring back old supporters ! Some good rivalries - 20 years in the making 🐏 rams vs reds 🦘 Crushers 🚂 vs Titans ⭐️ Mariners 💪 vs knights ⚔️ 🛡
@@Alekosdw Yeah true but that doesnt matter in terms of todays marketability, you want to be able to google the team name and have only that team come up its just modern business
Melbourne hasn't worked. After millions of dollars and over 20 years they are still a SE Queensland team instead of a Victorian team. They produce no players down south. There are still only 750 registered players in all of Victoria. And half of those are comprised of ladies and kids playing touch football. By comparison WA has over 30,000 registered players and a local League culture with little input from the NRL at all. About time we rewarded League nurseries with their own team instead of propping up Melbourne. They will just change the channel. Victorians certainly won't stop playing. They never started.
How stupid for the NRL to have a second Brisbane team. You have Adelaide, Cairns, Hobart, Perth and Darwin without teams and you only want another team in a city that already has an NRL team. How stupid. Also what’s with the most laughable and stupid names. Firehawks, Jets and Dolphins. That had to be the most stupidest and laughable names I’ve ever heard. No one will support the “new” Brisbane team. Also, get your own stadium. Don’t use Suncorp
Western Australia should except the North Sydney Bears as there team. West Tigers should dismantle one goes to Melbourne in Western Suburbs Magpies and Balmain Tigers will go to Hobart the key is all foundation clubs have recognition in a expanded range. Just like Sydney (STH Melbourne) Swans and Brisbane (Fitzroy) Lions.
@@alenvarghese1438 yea ik more than half of the NRL is in NSW but can we have teams around the country? It’s called National Rugby League not east coast rugby league
@@alenvarghese1438 Rugby League heart is in Sydney and that’s final. It was birthed there and foundation clubs brought the game into being. So they automatically remain in the game with expansion
Get rid of the Titans for starters and then bring in a team from Perth , Adelaide and a second team in Brisbane . A second team in Brisbane is well overdue.Maybe a team from the central coast NSW and retweak the rules somewhat to tighten the game to minimise the blowouts we have had this year.Oh and leave the Sydney comp as is .
Two of the longest running and successful teams with massive fan bases? U serious? Cronulla and manly would be the only teams that run the risks of getting kicked but i still don't see that happening
@@tobymurphy6744 Roosters don't really have a massive fan base. Most of their supporters are non-locals who hopped on the bandwagon because they have had some success over the last couple of decades.
As an ex Sydneysider who grew up on league and now lives in Adelaide, would love to have an NRL team here.
Agreed same here
People who say there isn't enough talent are overlooking the fact that the talent isn't spread evenly. There is plenty of talent playing backup roles at the top teams that are better than the starters for the bottom teams
There's plenty of talent. Money is the problem investors that are willing to wait a long time before getting a return. Money is the only issue. Money for grass routes footy clubs Money for indigenous/Polynesian/aussie rural camps & scholarships. There's just not enough money at the moment for success. Especially During covid I'd imagine now would be the worst time possible for expansion why even bring it up? 😅
Talent also applies to those behind the scene, trainers, coaches, administrators etc… funding these and players are the real challenge
It’s called National Rugby League not east coast rugby league
It is still practically just NSW & QLD rugby league. No real talents coming from Melbourne.
Push the Adelaide rams 🐏
Two teams in untraditional NRL territory
@@Alekosdw I reckon Adelaide, Perth and a 2nd NZ team should be on the cards.
It’s sarcasm
@@Alekosdw or atleast bring more games to Adelaide
100% agree with Freddie, having a local rival club in the same city could drive better performances out of both teams IMO
I hope they maintain the name Redcliffe Dolphins, it is synonymous with Rugby League in Queensland. Clubs in Sydney are named after suburbs they represent and this name would represent qlders in the southern end.
So many great teams worth bringing back including north Sydney bears western reds and Adelaide rams and Gold Coast chargers
Expansion should be done during a crises when your competitor's are also hurting. Hyundai and Kia's mainstream success was born out of the GFC.
depends where you expand to. if you have somewhere like perth, set up an academy or something (unlike melbourne who setup in sunshine coast) and there might be enough tallent
I reckon it'd be nice to have a team based in wa
Bring back the redz
WA and SA don't want teams, they'd rather watch rejected ballerinas chase an egg than rugby league.
@@boganbob2708 you mexicans will watch anything that comes your way so i don't buy that
@@martinlaukkanen1652 what?
@@boganbob2708 don’t worry he is known for being racist
Two divisions/conferences of 12 with promotion and relegation between. The 8 expansion teams:
Redcliff dolphins
North Sydney Bears
PNG hunters
A western Brisbane team
2nd NZ team
Adelaide rams reboot
2nd Melbourne team ?
WA team ?
Cant happen overnight though got to put in ground work now. Pencil in 2024
I reckon if there is enough teams in QLD then I say go ahead for a conference system (obviously add a few non qld teams)
Honestly, as someone who was born and raised in Adelaide but now lives in NSW, I can certainly confirm that Adelaide ain’t ever gonna have an NRL team. Big AFL and cricket town, and just very little to no support for league down there.
100% agree with Freddy. Competition improves quality 👌
A team in Ipswich where the Brisbane jets would be based will be huge, lots of pacific islanders & indigenous kids live in this area, the population is booming due to interstate migration & affordable housing, the Ipswich cbd is undergoing a massive make over, lots of infrastructure, lots of jobs, a strong economy for years to come, a team in this area is a no Brainer,
If Wayne Bennett comes in & what he brings to the table, his record speaks for itself
It should be called Ipswich Jets with colour of Blue Bag and Newtown written in the rear. So we can recognise the foundation club of Rugby League
@@clevelandwilliams5922
Firstly, Glebe were the first club. Secondly, Ipswich have a proud history of League going all the way back to 1908-9, so lets honour that and not force an NSWRL thing on a team that has a proud history already
@@mwilkins1644 well if that’s the case we can merge both clubs and celebrate foundation history. I don’t like it when other clubs formed take the emblem of another club without the recognition of history to the game.
Ipswich & Newtown both are included in this team you’ll have NSW supporters as well as QLD.
@@clevelandwilliams5922 nah but Ipswich Jets are there own team, if the Newtown Jets returned then sure
@@zaco21_ sorry NRL wouldn’t be were it it if it wasn’t for the Foundation clubs of Sydney as they created professional code.
Expand, im down for more teams joining the sport
Pretty much all the clubs at present are city based clubs - I would like to see a team representing the country/rural areas and 1 from WA and NT. I think now is the time to do it. I think the season has still been great to watch regardless of the covid situation. Perhaps multiple games at same stadium is the way forward.
Is that a combined WA and NT team?
@@tobymurphy6744 No, I think they both should have their own team, if you combine the team wouldn't be representing their State.
@@MELODYMUNRO well NT doesn't play league so I don't think that would work. There an afl territory through and through and they don't even have an afl team yet
@@MELODYMUNRO no, not enough support in Darwin, it would have to be Perth playing games there
@@tobymurphy6744 wrong. It's a battleground with a few different sports played. It's who gets there first. AFL gives more support to the NT then the NRL do. Being scared of the AFL is getting the NRL nowhere. The AFL obviously isn't scared of you considering there last expansions were in NSW and QLD.
Adelaide Rams. Great support here. Always sells out when chooks and storm play
Bring em back !
Yeah, Adelaide and Perth should have their teams back.....should never have got rid of them.......was so silly of the NRL/ARL.
Tbh I’m from Adelaide (Yes I did go to the Roosters vs Storm Game in 2018) but there weren’t really much people at the game
@@zaco21_ yeah imagine if they had there own brand
And some local heroes it only takes a few years to generate ! Just need some cash flow or super league 😂 ! An push it !
@@Alekosdw yeah, I’d love to see a team in Adelaide, but the thing is they can’t play at the Adelaide Oval Every Single week due to AFL. They will have to play most games at Coopers Stadium and play 3 At The Adelaide Oval
Gal missed out on saying "only in Origin" to Freddy's last question.
More teams sure , we should have another team in Brisbane , another in New Zealand too then add another in Perth then finally it would look like a NATIONAL league
There’s nothing national about rugby league, another team in Brisbane is a failure to use vision for the future of the game. The AFL is laughing at league
I think we will be eventually expanding, but we're locking down areas like Sydney, Newcastle, brisbane and the rest of Queensland to consolidate that it's NRL territory and stop AFL from overthrowing league as the main sport
@@4KTUNCO nrl lost already
@@Mitchconner2001 lol
Stuff Brisbane, bring back a Perth and an Adelaide team!
🐏 rams
Agree with Freddie time to make it happen 💯👊🏽😎👍🏼
Freddie is right. 🤘🏾🤙🏾
I love Wayne Bennett. Expand the NRL and expand the international game.
100% expansion agree with Freddie. NRL is currently stagnating. There should an extra team in Brisbane, NZ and Melbourne. There should only be 2 teams in Sydney no more. We currently have 8 teams for Sydney alone its too much and we dont have massive funding like the EPL to maintain that number of clubs and support with only the fanbase of Sydney, i know people will hate this idea but it is also the reason the salary cap is so low because half the sydney clubs are struggling to afford it they are all competing for the same fanbase in the one city, if they spread out the sydney teams to other areas of Australia, the sport should gain more backers and supporters. The rest of the 6 sydney teams should be split into 2 teams for Perth, 2 for Adelaide, 1 Darwin/1 Alice Springs. If the newer city teams have an already established franchise representing their city i reckon it would garner a better fanbase since they know the clubs has history rather than starting from scratch like the Gold Coast Titans who didnt exactly kick off quite well.
I think we should do a system where 12 teams are in the first division, 12 teams are in second division & 12 teams in third division and make it if you finish in the bottom 3 you are entered in a best of 3 series against the top 3 teams of the lower division to fight for there right to remain, would be easy to make new teams and enter them in 3rd division and they can fight there way to first division & do a top 6 to win the comp
Example:
Division 1
-----------‐-------------------‐-----------------------
1. Melbourne Storm (VIC)
2. South Sydney Rabbitohs (NSW)
3. Sydney City Roosters (NSW)
4. Manly Sea Eagles (NSW)
5. Penrith Panthers (NSW)
6. Parramatta Eels (NSW)
----------------------------------------------------------
7. Newcastle Knights (NSW)
8. Canterbury Bulldogs (NSW)
9. Gold Coast Titans (QLD)
---------------------------------------------------------
10. Brisbane Broncos (QLD)
11. Auckland Warriors (NZ)
12. Canberra Raiders (ACT)
-------------------‐----‐------‐-----------‐‐-------‐-------
Division 2
------------------‐--------------------------------‐-------
1. North Queensland Cowboys (QLD)
2. Central Queensland Capras (QLD)
3. South Queensland Jets (QLD)
------------------------------------------------------------
4. North Brisbane Dolphins (QLD)
5. South Brisbane Tigers (QLD)
6. Sunshine Coast Falcons (QLD)
7. Northern Pride (QLD)
8. Western Suburb Magpies (NSW)
9. North Sydney Bears (NSW)
----------------------------------------------------------
10. Illawarra Steelers (NSW)
11. St George Dragons (NSW)
12. Cronulla Sharks (NSW)
--------------‐-------------‐-------‐-----------------------
Division 3
-----‐-‐-----------‐---------------------------------------
1. West Coast Giants (WA)
2. Fremantle Wolfpack (WA)
3. South Perth Lions (WA)
-------------------------------------------------------------
4. Port Lincoln Cougars (SA)
5. Adelaide Stallions (SA)
6. Port Adelaide Rams (SA)
7. North Melbourne Hawks (VIC)
8. South Melbourne Wildcats (VIC)
9. Papa New Guinea Hunters (PNG
10. Wellington Orcus (NZ)
11. Christchurch Chiefs (NZ)
12. Tasmanian Devils (TAS)
----‐----------------------------‐-------------------------
12 New South Wales Teams, 9 Queensland Teams, 3 South Australian Teams, 3 Western Australian Teams, 3 Victorian Teams, 3 New Zealand Teams, 1 Australian Capital Territory Team, 1 Tasmanian team, 1 Papa New Guinea
Team with the bottom of division 3 to play whatever team looking to enter the competition
Bloody oath expand, it’s about bloody time, how can you have a national rugby league but all the teams are on one side of the country, bring back the north sydney bears, one new team in Qld, one new the team in Melbourne, one new team in South Australia and two new teams in Western Australia
We barely have the talent for 16 teams let alone another 6 lol.
@@tobymurphy6744 then NRL needs a good long look in the mirror and do the complete opposite of everything the nrl is doing now hahaha
Not 2 teams in WA lmfao, nobody in WA gonna support 2 teams. One team will have over 20k members, the other to have like 500 😂
@@zaco21_ One team would probably only have 10000 actually, given how much more popular afl is to league.
@@tobymurphy6744 100k? 😂 or do you mean 1k
Ludicrous it hasent happened yet, just shows the incompetence of the bigwigs in the NRL HQ over the last decade. Should add 4 teams to take it to 20. The game would explode nationally and the talent is there. Youd overnight double the population in the NRL world. Youd have an extra 10 million people dumped into the NRL to choose the next Thurston or Cronk from. Not just from NSW or QLD. Instead of kids wanting to play for the Crows or the Dockers theyll grow up with their NRL team. Plenty of league fans in those areas too and plenty of Ex pats from England. League is the national sport of PNG for Christ sake. The untapped talent and marketing alone in PNG should be enough to do all 4 teams. In the late 80s they started the Polynesian expansion to get them into League and now teams are 75% Islanders. Plenty of PNG'rs running around to not only fill a Port Moresby team but also filter throughout the other 19 NRL teams.
1 in Perth
1 in Brisbane
1 in Adelaide
1 in PNG
totally agree but I would expand to Darwin instead of Adelaide
The last time the NRL expanded was in 94/95. At that point there was about 5% of the playing talent from New Zealand. Now there is about 35% of the playing talent from New Zealand. So there has to be a heap of good first grade footballers that are playing in England, France or the NSW cup or Q cup that have been over looked because of age or what ever just crying out for a crack.
CAIRNS BROTHERS SHOULD BE THE 18TH TEAM
Agree with Fittler
The difference between the top 6 and bottom 10 is huge so just throwing more teams in is not the answer.
Maybe a second division would be the answer if you have more teams????.
Do we have enough quality players??
Get it happening, we need expansion.
GWS and Gold Coast got extra salary cap space to get started
Replace the Wests Tigers with a 2nd Brisbane team.
and pretend they never existed.
Give an NRL team to a state that could not give two hoots about NRL....
Meanwhile Central Coast have been after a team forever but keep giving new team to Gold Coast. They are at team 3 now......
Oh and the third Gold Coast team had to get bailed out by said NRL
A second team in Melbourne might be a viable option when ya consider how well the current team in Melbourne is going over the last 20 or so years
The thing with that is there isn't any local juniors coming through. Melbourne get most of their talent from Queensland
@@adamwebb831 While that is true, from a money standpoint and for building the game, a 2nd Melbourne team would probably be great for the game, I mean Melbournians love their sport, they'll pay to watch whatever sport is on, it will create a rivalry in Melbourne for the Storm, which would drive up local Juniors starting footy and it will be a big boost in general for the game. It won't be an overnight thing....but it would pay off over time.
@@SilentHotdog28 I tend to agree with ya mate 100%
Nah I don’t see it happening
I’m from the future brad filter was right
We don’t need another team in Brisbane. We have the broncos. Down the road we have the titans. You’re not gonna get another 30,000 people going to games just because you add another team up here. Especially if you’re still wanting to charge us $50 minimum to go and see it, it’s not viable. You split Brisbane up you’ll just have another Sydney situation with between 1-10k people watching one team and another 1-10k watching the other team. Give other qld locations a team. Qld is the heartland of nrl, not just Brisbane. Rocky would be great, people drive hours to go to the cowboys give them another team closer.
GAL ARE YOU SOFT. MR BENNET JUST SAID STRAIGHT UP THAT COACHES ARE NOT GETTING THE MOST OUT OF PLAYERS. hello, mcfly anyone home
Redcliffe Dolphin's , Ipswich Jet's or a sunny coast team not another Brisbane team
Rugby League is the only sport in the world that can't grow hahaha
There should be another club in Brisbane and one in Adelaide and Perth ..The other one to make 20 can come from wherever?? Maybe NT or NZ ??
Team from NT
I’m with Freddy
Well said freddy
We should start teams in Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and Timor so we can not play in all of those places as well.
Nevermind ausy teams we need another NZ team. Ausys out to keep nz where it is with league, they know if we have another team NZ rugby league will improve which scares them
Bring back the bears
People keep saying there's not enough talent
There's more teams in the Qld cup than nsw cup, there's plenty of talent in Qld
Im in shock. I actually agree with Freddy.
2 teams at least
theres already a lack of quality in the comp and they want to expand?
Ok let's boot out half the Sydney teams then.
All of qld too then 🤣
@@munkmanmunkman Ok fine by me. Broncs Titans and Cowboys can play in Q cup and you guys can play with yourselves. Been an advocate for it for a while now.
As if you reckon that would be a good comp anyhow ya trip out, it’s nrl not state rugby league
@@BigBadAds9 imbecile I’m a qlder, why would you assume I’m a roach
Time to expand? Why do you want to add more water to a whiskey that's already 70% water?
The comp is so thin on talent it's not funny. Adding ANOTHER team to the comp already dilutes a very watered down comp. Currently there are only 4 teams who can genuinely win the competition (Storm, Panthers, Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs) while the 12 other clubs are simply making up the numbers and you want to add ANOTHER team in this mess of a comp?
75% of the competition can't win the comp but let's add more to that. Please.
Plenty of talent ready to go
Bring back some old teams bring back old supporters !
Some good rivalries - 20 years in the making
🐏 rams vs reds 🦘
Crushers 🚂 vs Titans ⭐️
Mariners 💪 vs knights ⚔️ 🛡
They wont use the name's mariners or reds because theyre already professional teams, though in different sports
@@rhyssanders9122 our clubs are older in a professional sense
Hunter Mariners est 96
Western reds est 91
@@Alekosdw Yeah true but that doesnt matter in terms of todays marketability, you want to be able to google the team name and have only that team come up its just modern business
Can we please get the Illawarra Steelers back?
St George Illawarra dragons, we already have it
Would love to have an Adelaide team!!
Too many teams already. Unless they are going to have 36 rounds the draw is unfair.
The broncos have deliberately been tanking to scare off the nrl from Brisbane expansion.
Melbourne hasn't worked. After millions of dollars and over 20 years they are still a SE Queensland team instead of a Victorian team. They produce no players down south. There are still only 750 registered players in all of Victoria. And half of those are comprised of ladies and kids playing touch football. By comparison WA has over 30,000 registered players and a local League culture with little input from the NRL at all. About time we rewarded League nurseries with their own team instead of propping up Melbourne. They will just change the channel. Victorians certainly won't stop playing. They never started.
Lets go Perth Pansies! make it happen!
Redcliffe is brisbane
Brisbane Brown Snakes baybeee ssssk sssssk
How stupid for the NRL to have a second Brisbane team. You have Adelaide, Cairns, Hobart, Perth and Darwin without teams and you only want another team in a city that already has an NRL team. How stupid. Also what’s with the most laughable and stupid names. Firehawks, Jets and Dolphins. That had to be the most stupidest and laughable names I’ve ever heard. No one will support the “new” Brisbane team. Also, get your own stadium. Don’t use Suncorp
Mate your saying this when theirs like 5 Sydney teams how about you look at that.
Western Australia should except the North Sydney Bears as there team. West Tigers should dismantle one goes to Melbourne in Western Suburbs Magpies and Balmain Tigers will go to Hobart the key is all foundation clubs have recognition in a expanded range. Just like Sydney (STH Melbourne) Swans and Brisbane (Fitzroy) Lions.
@@alenvarghese1438 yea ik more than half of the NRL is in NSW but can we have teams around the country? It’s called National Rugby League not east coast rugby league
@@alenvarghese1438 Rugby League heart is in Sydney and that’s final. It was birthed there and foundation clubs brought the game into being. So they automatically remain in the game with expansion
@@alenvarghese1438 try 9 Sydney teams champ
There simply isn't the talent in the comp.
Nonsense
Worry more about raising the salary cap instead of expanding so player's aren't switching codes
There is a team with only 2 wins
Get rid of the Titans for starters and then bring in a team from Perth , Adelaide and a second team in Brisbane . A second team in Brisbane is well overdue.Maybe a team from the central coast NSW and retweak the rules somewhat to tighten the game to minimise the blowouts we have had this year.Oh and leave the Sydney comp as is .
was gonna listen to this until i heard erins voice
Get rid of a Sydney club first. My vote is for Roosters to merge with Rabbitohs.
Will never happen.
Two of the longest running and successful teams with massive fan bases? U serious? Cronulla and manly would be the only teams that run the risks of getting kicked but i still don't see that happening
@@tobymurphy6744 Roosters don't really have a massive fan base. Most of their supporters are non-locals who hopped on the bandwagon because they have had some success over the last couple of decades.
@@danzigvssartre they're still fans
Lmaoooooo nah mate, Souths and roosters hate each other
we need relegation.
first