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Message: [QUOTE="Kooly87, post: 3106061, member: 9326"] The problem with the Super League war is that no one really won, and now we're stuck in this limbo that's been going on for nearly 25 years. 25 years on, the strong Sydney clubs have taken some scrapes along the way, but by and large, they're still here and still feel just as entitled to a divine right to a place in the competition in perpetuity regardless of how well run or managed they are. On the other side of the fence, we have the out of Sydney and expansion clubs who have varying levels of success and are restricted by the salary cap and unable to spend any of the money they can generate from operating in new markets on buying players to play there for them, and the ones who struggle always seem to be the first on the chopping block in every conversation about the games future. Worst of all, we abandoned our expansion efforts at the first sign of trouble, just so more Sydney clubs could hang around, only for them to go belly up down the track anyway. What hurts worse about that is that Melbourne have made things work in the most hostile Rugby League market imaginable, which makes you wonder what we could have achieved if we'd persisted with the likes of Perth or Adelaide, or not sat the Gold Coast on the sidelines for nearly 20 years. We're either a national competition or we're not. If a small club in Brookvale or Leichardt that draws a handful of fans cannot compete with the entire city of Brisbane or Canberra financially, then that really is natural selection taking it's course and ultimately it will lead to a stronger and more financially viable competition, but until we decide one way or another if we're going to be a genuinely national or just an aged care facility for the Sydney club's that people stopped watching decades ago, we're stuck in this ongoing limbo where neither side gets what they want or need and so the game remains stagnant. [/QUOTE]

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