northernspirit
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I was looking for this topic in the nrl threads on here but noone seems to be discussing it so hence the new thread. What do people feel about this? I would hate to see the NRL up here, go away thugby league
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Souths to relocate to Gosford?
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FFC Mariner
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As they have a 10year deal with ANZ stadium, highly unlikely. This is just singo being opportunistic.
Other threads have details
Other threads have details
northernspirit
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mmm ok, however theres more than 1 team in financial trouble hey... seems to be whenever there is a whinge in rugby league circles the first thing they do is threaten to move to the coast like we are the worst case scenario, using the region as a puppet for their own selfish agenda... i hope people up here dont fall for these dirty tricks if a team ever moves up here
midfielder
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Just read a story in the telie where Peter Home a Court said Souths lost 4.5 million last year.
IMO the NRL cannot keep all those teams in Sydney and the first to be going under will put up there hand and move. So within two maybe three at the outside a Sydney based NRL team will move to the coast.
Could be interesting over in the CCLC, if they have a league team to support as well how much will still come our way and how much extra could be found for a new league team
IMO the NRL cannot keep all those teams in Sydney and the first to be going under will put up there hand and move. So within two maybe three at the outside a Sydney based NRL team will move to the coast.
Could be interesting over in the CCLC, if they have a league team to support as well how much will still come our way and how much extra could be found for a new league team
Penrith9103
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F*** off Souths.
This is Mariners Country !!!!
A change of name and location is not going to be a recipe for success.
Take your useless players and head back to extinction where you belong.
This is Mariners Country !!!!
A change of name and location is not going to be a recipe for success.
Take your useless players and head back to extinction where you belong.
Central coast is Mariners country as said b4, but as a fan of NRL as well (a mariners fan more) i do not see an NRL team moving up to the coast and starting a new franchise look at what happened to the bears when they moved up here and they had no codes to compete with and they still couldn't get a franchise of the ground, how are they going to go now competing with the mariners, there is no way this would happen.
john_kowolski
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As the topic of the post suggests..pretty simple - South Sydney are considfering taking the NRL's $10m carrot and moving to the Coast.
IT WON'T WORK. People won't get behind the team, or any other for that matter. Souths won't fully be on the Coast and will be more like the Rays from last year's rugby thing (i.e. do nothing on, or for the coast)
The coast is now Mariners heartland. They have managed to become a part of our community, and as such, will always remain number one. With average crowds of 10,000 in V3, I think within a few years we can be looking at 16,000 for averages, with many sell outs.
So, would you support a relocated NRL Team, or an 'original' Central Coast team???
IT WON'T WORK. People won't get behind the team, or any other for that matter. Souths won't fully be on the Coast and will be more like the Rays from last year's rugby thing (i.e. do nothing on, or for the coast)
The coast is now Mariners heartland. They have managed to become a part of our community, and as such, will always remain number one. With average crowds of 10,000 in V3, I think within a few years we can be looking at 16,000 for averages, with many sell outs.
So, would you support a relocated NRL Team, or an 'original' Central Coast team???
The problem is that a team like souths ( who cant win a game were ever they play) will be forced to move to the coast when it is to late. Then coast will be blamed for another failed team. Much the same as the Northern eagles debarcle. I always said that I would support any team that is from the coast. With northern Eagles my son and I went to all the home games bought all the gear for what.
The Mariners are our team, started here and remain here. Thats why fans are loyal and fan base is still growing. Rock on the new season.
The Mariners are our team, started here and remain here. Thats why fans are loyal and fan base is still growing. Rock on the new season.
Ted
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I'll be the odd one out here and state I'd support a coast based NRL team seeing as it is the off season to the HAL. I have followed league since i was 5 yo and won't chage that anytime soon. BUT if it's not my beloved Bulldogs relocating here then it would have to be OUR OWN TEAM or I'd have little to no interest in the idea. This would be the same for any NRL fan and their chosen team, so to be honest I can't see it working out.
It's obvious the NRL is struggling to survive though and crowd numbers have been nothing short of dismal.
It's obvious the NRL is struggling to survive though and crowd numbers have been nothing short of dismal.
FFC Mariner
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Never happen, too much factional infighting at Souths.
Die in Sydney not up here
Die in Sydney not up here
midfielder
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From Fox sports
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23768078-23214,00.html
Souths going nowhere
By Steve Jancetic
May 27, 2008
THE possibility of South Sydney re-locating to the Central Coast appears remote after Rabbitohs chief executive Shane Richardson said any move away from Redfern was in the hands of the club's members.
Back at the helm following Peter Holmes a Court's decision to stand down as executive chairman, Richardson was forced into damage control after club patriarch George Piggins put forward a rescue package for the club which included a move to Gosford.
But Richardson hosed down any talk of the club pulling out of Redfern.
Neither George, nor Peter Holmes a Court, nor Russell Crowe has the right to move the Rabbitohs, Richardson told Sydney radio station 2KY.
The only people under the article of the association of the club who have that right are the members - they still have that right.
If the members get together and call an AGM to vote on the fact to move the club to the Central Coast, which I've got to say is highly unlikely, then we worry about the Central Coast.
I respect George and always have done. The reality is it's not going to happen.
There was little doubt about how the members felt with the club's fan forum, which is only available to members, calling for Piggins to stay away from the club.
The Rabbitohs, like most Sydney NRL clubs, are in dire straits financially. It prompted Holmes a Court, in what was one of his last acts as executive chairman, to say he could not guarantee the club's future.
Piggins' proposal involved him putting forward $3 million to buy the club off Holmes a Court and Crowe, on the proviso the club then moved to the Central Coast and the $3 million was returned to him out of the $8 million grant offered by the NRL for re-location.
Members described the idea as disgusting, the general feel of the topic summed up in one response which read:
Any relocation to Gosford would mean losing our identity. There is no way we would remain the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Maybe at first, but sooner or later we would be the Central Coast Rabbitohs or the Central Coast something. Souths would be no more. You go to Gosford, you lose me and thousands of other supporters.
Piggins denied he was keen to get involved in the club again.
I'd help try to get it to Gosford but I'm out of it now, Piggins said. I have no intention of going back.
There was little comment from players with injured halfback Craig Wing forced to sum up the mood of the squad.
New football consultant John Lang was not on hand at the training session, and there is still some doubt over his exact role with the club.
Wing, heralded as the club's saviour after returning to the club this season only to be injured in the opening minutes of the club's first match, admitted the club was at a low.
But he denied it had anything to do with off-field distractions.
Obviously the performance on the field and where we're coming and all the losses is affecting us ... but in regards to what's happening with the management of the club and the structure hasn't really affected us at all because we've got no control over it, Wing said.
As hard as it is for all the fans it's just as hard for us because it's actually embarrassing for us where we are on the ladder and we're doing everything we can to change that.
By no means are we going to let what's happening at the club or the structure of the club be an excuse of where we are on the field - it's a weak, easy way out.
Despite taking part in training Wing is still a few weeks away from a return to action.
His absence was again evident as the coach Jason Taylor named yet another new halves pairing for Sunday's match against St George Illawarra with George Ndaira the new No.7 alongside Dean Widders.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23768078-23214,00.html
Souths going nowhere
By Steve Jancetic
May 27, 2008
THE possibility of South Sydney re-locating to the Central Coast appears remote after Rabbitohs chief executive Shane Richardson said any move away from Redfern was in the hands of the club's members.
Back at the helm following Peter Holmes a Court's decision to stand down as executive chairman, Richardson was forced into damage control after club patriarch George Piggins put forward a rescue package for the club which included a move to Gosford.
But Richardson hosed down any talk of the club pulling out of Redfern.
Neither George, nor Peter Holmes a Court, nor Russell Crowe has the right to move the Rabbitohs, Richardson told Sydney radio station 2KY.
The only people under the article of the association of the club who have that right are the members - they still have that right.
If the members get together and call an AGM to vote on the fact to move the club to the Central Coast, which I've got to say is highly unlikely, then we worry about the Central Coast.
I respect George and always have done. The reality is it's not going to happen.
There was little doubt about how the members felt with the club's fan forum, which is only available to members, calling for Piggins to stay away from the club.
The Rabbitohs, like most Sydney NRL clubs, are in dire straits financially. It prompted Holmes a Court, in what was one of his last acts as executive chairman, to say he could not guarantee the club's future.
Piggins' proposal involved him putting forward $3 million to buy the club off Holmes a Court and Crowe, on the proviso the club then moved to the Central Coast and the $3 million was returned to him out of the $8 million grant offered by the NRL for re-location.
Members described the idea as disgusting, the general feel of the topic summed up in one response which read:
Any relocation to Gosford would mean losing our identity. There is no way we would remain the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Maybe at first, but sooner or later we would be the Central Coast Rabbitohs or the Central Coast something. Souths would be no more. You go to Gosford, you lose me and thousands of other supporters.
Piggins denied he was keen to get involved in the club again.
I'd help try to get it to Gosford but I'm out of it now, Piggins said. I have no intention of going back.
There was little comment from players with injured halfback Craig Wing forced to sum up the mood of the squad.
New football consultant John Lang was not on hand at the training session, and there is still some doubt over his exact role with the club.
Wing, heralded as the club's saviour after returning to the club this season only to be injured in the opening minutes of the club's first match, admitted the club was at a low.
But he denied it had anything to do with off-field distractions.
Obviously the performance on the field and where we're coming and all the losses is affecting us ... but in regards to what's happening with the management of the club and the structure hasn't really affected us at all because we've got no control over it, Wing said.
As hard as it is for all the fans it's just as hard for us because it's actually embarrassing for us where we are on the ladder and we're doing everything we can to change that.
By no means are we going to let what's happening at the club or the structure of the club be an excuse of where we are on the field - it's a weak, easy way out.
Despite taking part in training Wing is still a few weeks away from a return to action.
His absence was again evident as the coach Jason Taylor named yet another new halves pairing for Sunday's match against St George Illawarra with George Ndaira the new No.7 alongside Dean Widders.
FFC Mariner
Well-Known Member
Souths going nowhere indeed lol
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