Aloiai has leveled up in 2019\. Totally deserves a crack in the starting line-up. Hopefully he's fit enough for it.
Reynolds should be better too with a full game under his belt.
A lot of fair points here. We have lacked a genuine speedster since JAC.
But….. I'd rather see the money spent on key positions first.
We seem to have a faster forward pack this year with Garner and Matterson which counts for something.
Don't forget, any expansion will be aimed at getting maximum value from the next round of tv rights.
Perth opens up a market of over 2.5 million new viewers. That's a big deal.
Dubbo (or even for that sake, Brisbane) would not expand the tv audience at all.
The NRL would most likely subsidise...
It's a nice idea, but simply, Dubbo's economy isn't big enough to support an NRL club. You need huge corporate sponsorship bucks to run a footy club.
Greater Western Sydney's economy (with basically 2 NRL sides) is worth $114 billion p/a compared to $2 billion in the greater Dubbo area.
Perth...
Gus has an ego as big as the MCG, but he loves and knows our game inside out.
He'll be down at the local footy club at Shalvey, eating a sausage sanga, while the NRL head honchos are terrified of travelling any further west than Balmain.
The writing is on the wall for the next rights and Gus...
Beattie is one of league's punching bags. Obviously he hasn't sat on the hill with a pie and beer or laced up a boot.
But is that really important?
In defense of him, he's heading up a real political beast of a sport. And that's something he knows inside out.
I can't believe Liddle/Reynolds are even being mentioned in the same breath as Farah/Benji.
Robbie and Benji totally dominated Manly with skill and experience. They should have a mortgage on 6/9.
Having them on the field takes so much pressure off pressure off Brooks. We had three real aces up...