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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3347139, member: 1899"] The Raiders already had a strong junior base to work off of, Melbourne are clearly disadvantaged by comparison. Again, if they had have called them the Norths Brisbane Storm, would that make things any better? Would they still attract a Melbourne audience for the big finals game? No and that's where their value is. Melbourne do their part in Victoria with the Thunderbolts, if the NRL wants to get serious about developing Victorian talent they have to come up with a program like Auskick just like the AFL did with Brisbane. Even so, it's not like the majority of the Lions line-up is made up of Brisbane talent either. That's just the way expansion clubs are and they've existed since what? 1986 with the Bears? [/QUOTE]

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