Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[Geo]

Anyone have any signing suggestions or rumours?

I do but ..it's not allowed...apparently..

Congratulations everyone, 50K posts in the signings suggestions thread, at least 456 of which are actually about signings.

And 450 of those were Smoking Gun aka New Smoking Gun aka nug gnikoms.

Personally I was a rather big fan of nug gnikoms, he was so excessively polite, he sounded like a Dr Seuss character.

Can the Dr Seuss character kick goals

 

[851]

They love belittling our club, I am sure the Roosters with their big fan base meet all the criteria, what a joke.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-club-mergers-dragons-sharks-wests-tigers-panthers-brad-fittler/7cd630fa-301d-4d33-8956-a1c4e9d40fe6

Whose they? That whole article is based off one man”s opinion.

He is right about our nomadic existence and ignoring Campbelltown. But what about easts merge, they have no juniors, and if they start losing a few, no supporters

 

[Snake]

They love belittling our club, I am sure the Roosters with their big fan base meet all the criteria, what a joke.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-club-mergers-dragons-sharks-wests-tigers-panthers-brad-fittler/7cd630fa-301d-4d33-8956-a1c4e9d40fe6

Whose they? That whole article is based off one man”s opinion.

He is right about our nomadic existence and ignoring Campbelltown. But what about easts merge, they have no juniors, and if they start losing a few, no supporters

Put a call into the Magpies about engaging the Campbelltown area the place were Nrl clubs become extinct! Just flogging a dead horse there .

 

[JC99]

Farnworth officially staying at broncos

 

[TillLindemann]

They love belittling our club, I am sure the Roosters with their big fan base meet all the criteria, what a joke.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-club-mergers-dragons-sharks-wests-tigers-panthers-brad-fittler/7cd630fa-301d-4d33-8956-a1c4e9d40fe6

Whose they? That whole article is based off one man”s opinion.

He is right about our nomadic existence and ignoring Campbelltown. But what about easts merge, they have no juniors, and if they start losing a few, no supporters

And none of their supporters live in the eastern suburbs anyway. In that sense they'd be one of the least affected by relocation.

 

[Needaname]

What about an amalgamation and relocation of the WestsTigers to the EastsTigers.
They won’t even need to include a new logo...

 

[Russell]

They love belittling our club, I am sure the Roosters with their big fan base meet all the criteria, what a joke.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-club-mergers-dragons-sharks-wests-tigers-panthers-brad-fittler/7cd630fa-301d-4d33-8956-a1c4e9d40fe6

If a Sydney club has to go first on the chopping block should be the no-fans, no-juniors, non-RL-area Roosters.

Any open-minded league supporter can see that the obvious mergers are Cronulla-Saints and Roosters-Souths. It doesn't matter that Roosters and Souths hate each other, that's not a sufficient rationale.

Close-minded folks think Tigers need to be in the discussion because they just don't feature enough in the finals, but they aren't looking at financial pulling power, TV viewership, sponsorship and corporate backing, reported # fans, membership figures, bottom line etc. If it's based on business case, Tigers survive ahead of other Sydney-based clubs. And blokes like Nick Politis and Rusty Crowe are not around forever.

My honest opinion of the pecking order long-term realignment:
1. Any Sydney club moves to another major city like Perth
2. Cronulla + Saints merger
3. Roosters + Souths merger
4. Tigers + Bulldogs merger
5. Penrith + Parra merger

These are logical steps of geography and business, without thought for fan sentiment or backlash. There's no reason why Tigers should move but Bulldogs remain - Bulldogs' territory was basically backed onto Western Suburbs in 1934, and themselves were sandwiched by Parramatta only 12 year later.

Manly should be a legitimate Northern Sydney and Central Coast team, though they've never really managed to consolidate outside of Brookvale, which is a failing of them over a long period. Nonetheless at least Northern Sydney should have its own team that goes over the top of the Coastal and Inner West teams.

You end up with the Coastal team, the Southern team, the Inner West team, the Western team, the Northern team. Sydney's geographical boundaries are set, physically, now and forever, it's only the population that will change.

Roosters being a dominant side literally does nothing for the NRL. They don't smash TV ratings, they don't grow their members, crowds or junior base, they don't bring big corporate dollars. Like Souths they basically have a few heavyweights of rugby league politics and money, but are not central to any NRL plan of development or expansion. They are simply vestiges of the original 1908 plan for Sydney rugby league, with all their 1908 contemporaries having modernised or died (Balmain, Wests, Norths, Cumberland, Glebe, Newtown, Newcastle).

Even Souths would have been dead if not for the wranglings of the legal system and then a big-name Hollywood backer.

Agree with most of what you say - the most urgent and logical merger is Easts and Souths, the area is quite small.
Bulldogs and Parramatta also would be logical.

I disagree about the survival of Souffs - they would be dead and buried (I wish) without George Piggins.

 

[Flash089]

I don’t care who we merge with, as long as the team is an apex predator. No bin chickens, no mutts, no pussy cats, no points of the compass, just ...Tigers!

 

[TillLindemann]

I don’t care who we merge with, as long as the team is an apex predator. No bin chickens, no mutts, no pussy cats, no points of the compass, just ...Tigers!

I care very much. We shouldn't merge at all, and I will oppose any merger. We have one of the biggest fanbases of any club, especially any Sydney club. We produce a tonne of juniors. We represent more of Sydney than any other Sydney club - from the inner west to Macarthur, via Leichhardt, Ashfield and Lidcombe. In other words at a stretch we could lay claim to representing western Sydney as a whole. we also have a big following in the bush.

I think the two who already made the merger sacrifice - us and St George-Illawarra are the two Sydney clubs that should unquestionably stay as they are.

 

[851]

They love belittling our club, I am sure the Roosters with their big fan base meet all the criteria, what a joke.
https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/sydney-club-mergers-dragons-sharks-wests-tigers-panthers-brad-fittler/7cd630fa-301d-4d33-8956-a1c4e9d40fe6

Whose they? That whole article is based off one man”s opinion.

He is right about our nomadic existence and ignoring Campbelltown. But what about easts merge, they have no juniors, and if they start losing a few, no supporters

And none of their supporters live in the eastern suburbs anyway. In that sense they'd be one of the least affected by relocation.

They tick all the boxes for merging or relocating, except uncle Nick has friends in high places

 

[Flash089]

ratings and fan base aside, Vlandys would have to have big cohonnes to force mergers with roosters or rabbits. as bob dylan sang: “money doesn’t talk, it swears “ .we wouldn’t stand a chance. we would be bullied into it.

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

If they makes us merge again im out i'll never watch another game of NRL again, as far as im concern us and the dragons have already merged and done that heavy lifting. If they want to cull teams they should look at the others who havent.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

If they makes us merge again im out i'll never watch another game of NRL again, as far as im concern us and the dragons have already merged and done that heavy lifting. If they want to cull teams they should look at the others who havent.

You really consider the Dragons a JV?

 

[finnzo]

No ones merging why are we even talking about this

 

[TillLindemann]

If they makes us merge again im out i'll never watch another game of NRL again, as far as im concern us and the dragons have already merged and done that heavy lifting. If they want to cull teams they should look at the others who havent.

You really consider the Dragons a JV?

I think it is, even if St George may be the dominant partner.
Well, St George has definitely treated Illawarra with more respect than Manly did the Bears!

 

[avocadoontoast]

No ones merging why are we even talking about this

This thread has become about every topic other than signing suggestions and rumours.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Anyone have any signing suggestions or rumours?

I do but ..it's not allowed...apparently..

Congratulations everyone, 50K posts in the signings suggestions thread, at least 456 of which are actually about signings.

You went through 50000 posts to work out there were at least 456 about signings
Your keen

 

[mike]

Anyone have any signing suggestions or rumours?

I do but ..it's not allowed...apparently..

Congratulations everyone, 50K posts in the signings suggestions thread, at least 456 of which are actually about signings.

So the other 49,544 are rumours?

 

[Coastie_Tiger]

If they makes us merge again im out i'll never watch another game of NRL again, as far as im concern us and the dragons have already merged and done that heavy lifting. If they want to cull teams they should look at the others who havent.

You really consider the Dragons a JV?

its lopsided no doubt but still two teams merged into one so yes.

 

[mike]

If they makes us merge again im out i'll never watch another game of NRL again, as far as im concern us and the dragons have already merged and done that heavy lifting. If they want to cull teams they should look at the others who havent.

You really consider the Dragons a JV?

its lopsided no doubt but still two teams merged into one so yes.

It’s a takeover not a merger