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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3433546, member: 1899"] Yet Melbourne have boosted junior participation and ratings in Melbourne so to say they've done nothing for Victoria is wrong. We've had this discussion before, Melbourne weren't brought into necessarily uncover a bunch of Victorian players, they were brought into replace the Western Reds and add value to the television rights deal. You could call them the Sunshine Coast Storm and all would be hunky dory for you, but it actively hurts the competition. Less TV rights, less spending money for the NRL ergo less spending money on the salary cap. However it's not really about that. The point is that being a local junior doesn't matter in the NRL, it's just development and Melbourne have been one of the best clubs in that department since their inception. I wouldn't crow about Brisbane changing the sport too much either considering they had a hand in making the AFL the #1 sporting brand in Australia... [/QUOTE]

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