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Message: [QUOTE="Locky’s Left Boot, post: 3106404, member: 9358"] In a perfect world this is what the comp should look like in 20 years that makes sense demographically QLD 1. Brisbane Broncos 2. Gold Coast Titans 3. Redcliffe Dolphins/Sunny Coast Falcons 4. Ipswich/Western Corridor 5. Rockhampton 6. NQ Cowboys PNG 7. PNG Kumuls (Base them in Cairns. Works logistically) NSW 8. Central Coast Bears 9. Sydney City Roosters 10. St George Illawarra Dragons 11. Parramatta Eels 12. Penrith Panthers 13. South Sydney Rabbitohs or West Tigers 14. Newcastle Knights ACT 15. Canberra Raiders VIC 16. Melbourne Storm WA 17. Perth/Western Reds NZ 18. NZ Warriors 18 team comp that would be represented by 3 different countries and 3 time zones. 9 games a week and most areas would be represented in some way or another with the exception of NT and SA. Would also cut the number of Sydney teams down from 9 to 5. Would be cutting Manly, Cronulla, Canterbury and West Tigers. Ideally I would selfishly like to have a 2 conference of 9 teams system with everyone playing each other twice in their own conference and playing the other conference members once for a total of 25 game regular season. Because of player burnout and rep scheduling making that a bit of a stretch, you could look at having a 3 conference system of 6 teams with everyone playing the teams in their own conference twice for a total of 22 games. Would be 2 less games then they play now. Conference 1 would be the 6 QLD teams mentioned above (Broncos, Titans, Cowboys, Western Corridor/Ipswich, Redcliffe/Sunshine Coast, Rockhampton Conference 2 would be the 5 Sydney clubs plus the Central Coast (Roosters, Eels, Panthers, Dragons, Rabbitohs/Tigers, Central Coast Conference 3 would be the remainder (Kumuls, Knights, Storm, Perth/Western Reds, Raiders, Warriors Only con with that conference system is there wouldn’t really be any local derbies or big drawing games in conference 3 and would be a lot more travel but I could see the Raiders vs Storm rivalry keep building and the Warriors vs Storm games have been a bit of a draw card in the past. In terms of demographic and how I got to the 18 team comp I came up with here is some of the reasoning factoring in a few things already discussed. 1. Brisbane Broncos - No explanation needed. Represents Brisbane city as nearby surround northern and southern suburbs of Brisbane 2. NQ Cowboys - No explanation needed. Represents Townsville and regional areas north of Mackay. 3. Gold Coast Titans - Like others have said, we need to make this work. Brilliant catchment area with very talented juniors. Need to maybe rebrand the name to make it clear they also represent the NSW northern Riverina area. Should be representing from Coomera all way down to Coffs Harbour. 4. Western Corridor/Ipswich - New licenced team and would be an extension of the Ipswich Jets QRL model. Would represent that corridor from Springfield our past Ipswich. Would bring them in at the expense of the Bulldogs who I have demographically being absorbed by the Parramatta Eels who represent that middle corridor of Sydney. 5. Redcliffe Dolphins/Sunshine Coast Falcons - New licenced team and would be an extension of the QRL teams depending on which one you’d go with. Redcliffe makes more sense financially but Sunshine Coast makes more sense demographic wise. Would obviously represent the Northern Beaches of Brisbane up to the Sunshine Coast much like Manly’s representation of Northern Beaches of Sydney. Would bring them in as the 17th NRL team. 6. Rockhampton - New licenced team and would represent the entire CQ region from say Bundaberg up to Mackay. Would take a while to get off the ground but if we consolidated the other QLD teams and grow the game and product, this could be a reality in 10-15 years if hard decisions are made. Would be coming in at the expense of the either the Rabbitohs or Tigers whichever one we could do without the most. More than likely the Tigers. 7. PNG Kumuls - New licenced team. Would have to be based in Cairns and run like the Toronto Wolfpack is in Super League. Give them a marquee signing that can be paid outside the cap ala SBW with Toronto. Play half their games in Cairns and half in Port Morseby. Be silly not to look into making this franchise a reality considering it is the only country with League as it’s national sport. Would also represent the Cairns region and the top of QLD. Logistically would make sense as direct flights from Cairns to Port Moresby. Use the Northern Pride as another feeder club. 8. Newcastle Knights - No explanation needed. Represents Newcastle and Hunter region 9. Sydney City Roosters - No explanation needed. Represents Sydney City and Eastern Suburbs region. Would absorb the Rabbitohs catchment area if you were to keep the Tigers instead of Souths. 10. Central Coast Bears - New licenced team. Would come in at the expense of Manly Sea Eagles. Represents Northern Sydney all the way up to the Central Coast. 11. St George Illawarra - No explanation needed. Represents Southern Sydney down to Wollongong. Would absorb Cronulla Sharks who practically have the same catchment area. Sharks are financially in trouble and are playing out of Kogarah for the next 2 years anyway. May as well pull the pin now. 12. Parramatta Eels - No explanation needed. Represents that middle corridor of Sydney. Would absorb Canterbury Bulldogs as we don’t need 2 teams in this same general region. 13. Penrith Panthers - No explanation needed. Represents the Western Sydney, Blue Mountains and Bathurst regions. 14. South Sydney Rabbitohs/West Tigers - Take your pick which one survives. Penrith could always absorb the Tigers and represent the entire western suburbs region. Sydney City Roosters could always absorb the Rabbitohs as they are practically neighbours in a small catchment. Rabbitohs history and finances would most likely see them survive over the Tigers 15. Canberra Raiders - No explanation needed. Represents Canberra/ACT region and Southern NSW region towards the Victorian border. 16. Melbourne Storm - No explanation needed. Represents all of Victoria. 17. NZ Warriors - No explanation needed. Represents all of NZ 18. Perth/Western Reds - New licenced team. Represents all of WA. Would come in as the 18th NRL team. Also means we should be able to get rid of playing out of run down suburban grounds like Leichhardt, Brookvale and Southern Cross and not be subjected to Bulldogs playing games out at ANZ Stadium in near empty 80,000 stadium. [/QUOTE]

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