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Message: [QUOTE="GCBRONCO, post: 2992738, member: 1808"] Brisbane can support another NRL side at the present time I have no doubt but if you were going to go down that path I would either look at introducing a new team into the competition or relocating the Gold Coast Titans and renaming them to something like South Queensland Titans. I would however be against relocating a Sydney team to Brisbane because your introducing a situation where your asking the local Queensland community who are known for their hatred towards anything south of the border to suddenly adopt a NSW team from Sydney to be representative of Brisbane and Queensland in general. The challenge of relocation in that sense becomes even more uphill and difficult then that of somewhere like Perth that is screaming for a Rugby League team and far more likely to successfully adopt a former interstate team as their own. The South Queensland Crushers faced a huge uphill challenge from the start facing stiff competition for talent with the introduction of another 3 expansion sides in a competition that was already facing issues of player talent depth between the 16 existing other teams, Gold Coast teams have found it hard to bring in crowds, sponsorship deals etc without the results fans will expect, it was no different to what the Crushers would find out, that simply being in Brisbane doesn't mean your on easy street. Hell the Broncos faced their own uphill battle getting rugby league fans who saw their introduction as the death of the Brisbane competition on board. As for the Broncos and the difficult relationship and challenges the Crushers would face despite those who despise the Broncos would like to make it out to be it wasn't all one sided and the partly QRL owned Crushers certainly didn't help the situation, dragging the Broncos into salary cap disputes in 1994 with the ARL/NSWRL administration prior to your introduction isn't exactly setting you up for an early good working relationship with a local rival powerhouse club. The Broncos desire to move to QE2 Stadium also wasn't restricted to their ongoing sponsorship battles or crowd capacity, there were also concerns over plans that the state government and lang park trust had a 14 million revamp of lang park and the Broncos were going to be expected to pay considerable more(they were already paying the highest rental fees in the competition) to remain there to help pay for it while the Crushers were going to be offered free rental agreement for a considerable period by the Lang Park Trust. This is somewhat backed up by then QRL CEO(and the QRL had a considerable fianancial interest in the Crushers) Ross Livermore who was absolutely against the Broncos move and doing his best to demand the ARL deny the Broncos move to QE2 stadium and the ARL even replied to Livermore stating he had conflicting interests there. [/QUOTE]

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