NRL NRL Expansion

[Matiunz]

If they overturn that case we might all get what we want, an excuse to kick Souths out of the comp again

Didn’t South’s actually lose the court case but the NRL let them in anyway because of the public backlash?

 

[Worried2Death]

Didn’t South’s actually lose the court case but the NRL let them in anyway because of the public backlash?

Can't remember the details now, just how great it felt without them.

 

[mrblonde]

Didn’t South’s actually lose the court case but the NRL let them in anyway because of the public backlash?

Souths lost the first case, took it to a higher court and won as I recall. But maybe once people who didn't even like Souths ("come on, NRL, let the Rabbitohs back in, they're shit and it means we can win at least one game a season!" logic talking?) joined the campaign to get them back in, the NRL may have gone "Ah, fuck it, it's not worth the aggro!" and they didn't really argue the case as hard as they might have...

 

[Shogun]

The biggest crimes the RL overlords committed was reducing the number of clubs down from 22 across both comps in 97 down to ultimately 14 in 2000


View: https://youtu.be/BnKw_iLfngY

 

[Matiunz]

The biggest crimes the RL overlords committed was reducing the number of clubs down from 22 across both comps in 97 down to ultimately 14 in 2000


View: https://youtu.be/BnKw_iLfngY

Find it interesting out of the teams cut
Hunter really were surplus to requirements.
Dragons/Steeler, Magpies/Tigers continued under different names
South’s came back pretty quickly
Gold Coast are back
Crushers (aka Brisbane 2) are essentially back in the form of the Dolphins.
Reds and Norths look to be back soon
Which only really leaves us with Adelaide out from from where we were 25 odd years ago with only maybe PNG and NZ2 added

 

[Matiunz]

Looks like the SINRLB has dropped out of the race leaving just the Kea and Orca bids, interesting that Kea have openly said they will not work with the Orcas bid