Official Canterbury Bulldogs three year commitment to Bundaberg

Ewan McGrady said:
Tamworth a five hour drive to Belmore. Can be driven easily on any given weekend . Some supporters drive five hours to BUNDY and don’t think twice. Keep it in CQ or Wide Bay region I reckon.
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It's about 6-7 hours for me from Armidale to Sydney. Longer if I mis-time it and have to do peak hour traffic anywhere during the last three hours which is almost a given if I don't plan to get there by about 3pm. I avoid roll roads which slows it down a bit.

I've attended every Dubbo or Tamworth trial bar one which I had to work at the time. It was almost a sea of blue and white at these fixtures. So nice reward for those local. And as mentioned, there are likely to be three Queensland fixtures a year minimum without us moving one there voluntarily.

It's all just hot air anyway the club will decide what's in their best interests regardless of our individual opinions. Most of us would like to have them play in our own backyards so we can reach our own fridge if possible. The best solution may be to alternate between a few regional centres with good facilities over the course of a 3-5 year period.
 
Every Sydney club this year took a game away from their home this year I believe except for Saints and Manly. Saints normally take charity shield couldn’t this year due to Souths flying out for Vegas and Manly had home games at Vegas & Magic Round.

Canterbury Bundaberg
Penrith Bathurst
Roosters Gosford
Souths Gosford
Parramatta Darwin
Tigers Tamworth
Sharks Coffs Harbour

Next year Penrith going both Bathurst and Mudgee

Only outer Sydney sides to take home games elsewhere were Dolphins to Perth and Warriors to Christchurch.
 
Magic Burton said:
Every Sydney club this year took a game away from their home this year I believe except for Saints and Manly. Saints normally take charity shield couldn’t this year due to Souths flying out for Vegas and Manly had home games at Vegas & Magic Round.

Canterbury Bundaberg
Penrith Bathurst
Roosters Gosford
Souths Gosford
Parramatta Darwin
Tigers Tamworth
Sharks Coffs Harbour

Next year Penrith going both Bathurst and Mudgee

Only outer Sydney sides to take home games elsewhere were Dolphins to Perth and Warriors to Christchurch.
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We should pick Gosford, easy drive to take over the stadium.
 
ASSASSIN said:
We should pick Gosford, easy drive to take over the stadium.
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For me that would shorten the drive a bit and still avoid most of the Sydney congested traffic at the end of a half day drive. I fucking loove driving all day then getting slowed to a crawl when I'm sick of seeing roads.
 
If we're going to continue taking regional games it should be done to be as uncomfortable and disruptive as possible

Taking racist Shark to Walgett. Take Cowboys to Tasmania :tearsofjoy:Take Raider to Bundaberg instead although it might help some of their fat forwards sweating a few kg's off in the long run. Take fucking Manly to Mt Isa hahaha only breaks they'll be surfing there is back to the hotel to make sure their bags haven't been stolen
 
Going back a few years, my wife and I attended a number of City V Country games in regional areas, which were in front of packed houses. The presence of teams in the area gave that local community a big boost.

I would say the venue with the best facilities that we went to was Mudgee, closely followed by Dubbo and Tamworth.

The only problem we struck was at Tamworth when we weren’t allowed to bring our fold up chairs into the ground.

I have always thought every club should take one home game per season into a regional area. Obviously the best game to transfer is one against a team from a different city to ourselves that doesn’t always draw a good attendance at our home games.

Unfortunately some clubs just don’t want to play ball with this concept.
 
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ASSASSIN said:
We should pick Gosford, easy drive to take over the stadium.
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I agree,
Not only that, there a shit loads of dogs fans in Newcastle
And everyone of them I know of would happily travel to Gosford and usually do when dogs play there
 
gbrussell said:
Going back a few years, my wife and I attended a number of City V Country games in regional areas, which were in front of packed houses. The presence of teams in the area gave that local community a big boost.

I would say the venue with the best facilities that we went to was Mudgee, closely followed by Dubbo and Tamworth.

The only problem we struck was at Tamworth when we weren’t allowed to bring our fold up chairs into the ground.

I have always thought every club should take one home game per season into a regional area. Obviously the best game to transfer is one against a team from a different city to ourselves that doesn’t always draw a good attendance at our home games.

Unfortunately some clubs just don’t want to play ball with this concept.
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When we go to 20 teams the NRL should just take control of it

22 rounds
10 home games (club decision what they do with the 10)
10 away games
1 Magic Round
1 Neutral Venue Promotion (Vegas, Regional Towns, non-NRL cities, etc)

With the 10 home/10 away you play every team once and one rival twice swapping venues over the following year so when we play Canberra or Melbourne or Norths we get one away trip every two years to their regions.

Part of the Neutral Venue might be a Super Saturday in Adelaide with a Triple Header.

The team you play twice
Canterbury v Parramatta
Saints v Cronulla
Souths v Roosters
Manly v Newcastle
Penrith v Wests
Canberra v Melbourne
Warriors v 2nd NZ
Broncos v Dolphins
Cowboys v Titans
PNG v Norths

This rival rounds can swap over eg Manly v Norths, PNG v Newcastle, the QLD teams all swap around.
 
Magic Burton said:
When we go to 20 teams the NRL should just take control of it

22 rounds
10 home games (club decision what they do with the 10)
10 away games
1 Magic Round
1 Neutral Venue Promotion (Vegas, Regional Towns, non-NRL cities, etc)

With the 10 home/10 away you play every team once and one rival twice swapping venues over the following year so when we play Canberra or Melbourne or Norths we get one away trip every two years to their regions.

Part of the Neutral Venue might be a Super Saturday in Adelaide with a Triple Header.

The team you play twice
Canterbury v Parramatta
Saints v Cronulla
Souths v Roosters
Manly v Newcastle
Penrith v Wests
Canberra v Melbourne
Warriors v 2nd NZ
Broncos v Dolphins
Cowboys v Titans
PNG v Norths

This rival rounds can swap over eg Manly v Norths, PNG v Newcastle, the QLD teams all swap around.
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I think that is perfect. It also means we can have a months break and play origin over 3 or so consecutive weeks and finish at the same time. Unfortunately NRL and tv broadcasters will want more content not less.
 
Dogs4eva13 said:
I think that is perfect. It also means we can have a months break and play origin over 3 or so consecutive weeks and finish at the same time. Unfortunately NRL and tv broadcasters will want more content not less.
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Agreed. TV has a big say, probably too big. Contracts would have to be renegotiated and cost the NRL revenue.
 
Magic Burton said:
When we go to 20 teams the NRL should just take control of it

22 rounds
10 home games (club decision what they do with the 10)
10 away games
1 Magic Round
1 Neutral Venue Promotion (Vegas, Regional Towns, non-NRL cities, etc)

With the 10 home/10 away you play every team once and one rival twice swapping venues over the following year so when we play Canberra or Melbourne or Norths we get one away trip every two years to their regions.

Part of the Neutral Venue might be a Super Saturday in Adelaide with a Triple Header.

The team you play twice
Canterbury v Parramatta
Saints v Cronulla
Souths v Roosters
Manly v Newcastle
Penrith v Wests
Canberra v Melbourne
Warriors v 2nd NZ
Broncos v Dolphins
Cowboys v Titans
PNG v Norths

This rival rounds can swap over eg Manly v Norths, PNG v Newcastle, the QLD teams all swap around.
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Like the concept, but I doubt the NRL would.
 
Dogs should come to Gladstone
 
Alan79 said:
This!

There are plenty of areas across Australia that would benefit from NRL teams having some input into their development as development centres. Tamworth as far as I know has been pretty dedicated to RL for a long while. Dubbo might be another good region to support. No doubt there are others I don't know about.

Bundaberg I think took our help for a few years. As soon as a more local arrangement could benefit them they pissed us off if I recall things correctly. At least with regional areas in NSW the temptation to make the more local move to the Phins, Broncos or Titans is lesser for the players we've invested in. Jack Todd might be the first Tamworth product we see come through, but hopefully we get more good players filter through the system.

And as someone who can get to Tamworth in under two hours, I'd prefer to have home games moved there if the club wants to keep moving them. No disrespect to Qld based dogs fans. But you'll get magic round every year from the looks, plus Brisbane, Titans, Phins and Nth Queensland clashes. Which might be easier to get to. Regional NSW has been largely neglected for as long as I can recall.
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Isn't Tamworth and Dubbo Penrith territory?

If not, by all means New England all the way...tough footballers...maybe get Barnaby to attend lol
 
Magic Burton said:
Isn’t the ground out of action for NRL matches due to some upgrades happening?
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Wow not sure exactly if it’s restricted on numbers bro. But our company has the security contract there and we had the woman in league day there so it’s definitely operational.i was on another gig so couldn’t tell you. Leave it with me.
 
wendog33 said:
Isn't Tamworth and Dubbo Penrith territory?

If not, by all means New England all the way...tough footballers...maybe get Barnaby to attend lol
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Why you want to go pissing me off by inviting that scumbag anywhere I might go. Saw him in Coles car park here once and wanted to drive over the cahunt. If he wasn't holding onto his baby I'd probably be in jail still today.

Tamworth is one of the earliest areas the Anderson ticket expanded our catchment operations into. So I'd say it's a dedicated part of our system now. I don't know if any team has a presence in Dubbo. But Burton is from there so they potentially do. But I am pretty sure that Dubbo and surrounding areas has produced a reasonable number of talented NRL players through the years.
 
Alan79 said:
Why you want to go pissing me off by inviting that scumbag anywhere I might go. Saw him in Coles car park here once and wanted to drive over the cahunt. If he wasn't holding onto his baby I'd probably be in jail still today.

Tamworth is one of the earliest areas the Anderson ticket expanded our catchment operations into. So I'd say it's a dedicated part of our system now. I don't know if any team has a presence in Dubbo. But Burton is from there so they potentially do. But I am pretty sure that Dubbo and surrounding areas has produced a reasonable number of talented NRL players through the years.
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Sorry to hear Barnaby was carrying a baby and you missed the chance to be a hero for many.

Dean Pay is a Dubbo boy, pretty sure Bobcat is from there too. Cement Gillespie is from Narromine nearby (I’m also from around there). Les Davidson is also from Dubbo.
 
wendog33 said:
Isn't Tamworth and Dubbo Penrith territory?

If not, by all means New England all the way...tough footballers...maybe get Barnaby to attend lol
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Dubbo Maybe but Tamworth is bulldogs territory since Gus has been involved i believe
 
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