Official Canterbury Bulldogs three year commitment to Bundaberg

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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I musta been thinkin of Bathurst :grinning:,
Liam Martin from Dubbo as well?

Our grand daughter called our pelican Barnaby bc she knows we are big fans haha

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GA45 said:
Dubbo Maybe but Tamworth is bulldogs territory since Gus has been involved i believe
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Pretty sure the Anderson's made that move while we were still clearing out our best players to get our cap right again alongside of some central coast region.
 
Alan79 said:
Pretty sure the Anderson's made that move while we were still clearing out our best players to get our cap right again alongside of some central coast region.
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Keith Harris from Tamworth also.
 
If we continue to take games to the country, it should be as inconvenient for our opposition as it is for us?
I’m sick of taking home games against Queensland teams to Queensland?
I get that it makes sense commercially, but these grounds are so small, you’d sell it out if you were playing the Wilcannia wombats.
If you want to play in county Queensland take a Sydney team, if you want to play in country NSW take a Queensland team.
 
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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gbrussell said:
Like the concept, but I doubt the NRL would.
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Thanks @Dogs4eva13 and @gbrussell good to get positive feedback

V'Landys has recently talked big about it being a 19-round competition that shouldn't happen so I found middle ground from 24 games currently to 19 games V'Landys with 22 breaking it down as to be a bit clearer:

1) Every team plays each other once in a season and the following season the venues reverse so eg Bulldogs v Warriors the game is a Bulldogs home game one year and the next year is a Warriors home game (19 games) a lot of love certain parts of out of Sydney NRL clubs where they like to travel so you know it happens every 2 years.
2) You play a rival team for an extra game in the season bringig it to 20 games - 10 home, 10 away - best to keep that rival on a 2-year cycle only change inside the cycle if the draw permits for 10 home, 10 away based on the above.
3) The NRL controls the scheduling of two games per season so you end up playing 3 teams twice and 16 teams once a very fair draw.
4) Magic Round is no home or away teams. This year Manly got hit with Vegas & Magic Round and Canberra ditched Wagga Wagga due to Magic Round.
5) The NRL has control of 10 games they can use to promote an example I come up with is 2 games in Vegas (until whenever the hype is over), they could have 3 games as a "Super Saturday" triple header in an area they need to promote the game and 5 games in strategic regional towns 3 from NSW and 2 from QLD and we target towns that have decent population, a good facility and really need the NRL exposure. In Queensland two ripe towns would be Toowoomba and one of Cairns or Mackay. Toowoomba needs support the NRL have screwed them over too many times in the past. In NSW the most essential town is Wagga Wagga, I would include either Albury or Bega
6) With the season from 27 to 22 weeks, we start a week later, and we have 4 weeks off in mid June to early July (generally peak winter) for the Origin & Representative season. For those players who aren't involved in Rep games they can return to their affiliate clubs whether that's our NSW Cup side or Burleigh Bears, etc.

How clubs allocate their 10 home games is up to them. A lot of clubs do see a lot of merit in taking a game away to another region anyways as there's tourism money involved and getting into those junior areas.
 
Alan79 said:
Pretty sure the Anderson's made that move while we were still clearing out our best players to get our cap right again alongside of some central coast region.
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Anderson's went to mid North Coast areas like Forster, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour and the North Coast Bulldogs. They played their two home games in the Johns and Daley competitions at Port Macquarie. We even played a trial game at Port Macquarie where one player got into some off field trouble. Now trial game allocations are controlled by the NRL for TV reasons.

Northern Tigers who play in the Daley and Johns competitions played their home games at Tamworth. I think they were allocated to Tigers.

Clubs in the Daley and Johns competitions had an NRL partner. Northern Rivers who are aligned with Titans played their 3 home games at Murwillumbah, Ballina and Grafton.
 
If we are going to go to a NSW country town there's two I look at and really do an up yours on Sticky or Richo take your pick being Wagga Wagga or Tamworth both ditched in successive years by Canberra and Wests Tigers. Holding a Girls trial in Wagga Wagga doesn't wash the locals there aren't happy with the Raiders for what they done. Tamworth always got good crowds for Wests Tigers games. Wagga Wagga is Mortimer Country so surely we can pump up that up, help out Turvey Park Juniors where not one but four club legends come from.
 
Bad Billy said:
If we continue to take games to the country, it should be as inconvenient for our opposition as it is for us?
I’m sick of taking home games against Queensland teams to Queensland?
I get that it makes sense commercially, but these grounds are so small, you’d sell it out if you were playing the Wilcannia wombats.
If you want to play in county Queensland take a Sydney team, if you want to play in country NSW take a Queensland team.
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The ground attendance is commercially irrelevant, the NRL & NSWRL pay money, so does Country Rugby League and the NSW Government. Bundaberg City Council also coughed up for the 3 years. If no one turned up it wouldn’t matter commercially.


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TwinTurbo said:
The ground attendance is commercially irrelevant, the NRL & NSWRL pay money, so does Country Rugby League and the NSW Government. Bundaberg City Council also coughed up for the 3 years. If no one turned up it wouldn’t matter commercially.


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Good.
So go someplace where we’re not disadvantaged.
 
I think this was done at a time when we had low crowd figures and lower merch sales and the Admin guys needed to find ways to get more people to games increase income... its why we played NZ in NZ and why we played Queensland based Teams in Queensland... so we could cash in on the opposition team fans. With our increased home game attendance and merch sales I do not believe we will need that anymore.
 
Powerslide said:
I think this was done at a time when we had low crowd figures and lower merch sales and the Admin guys needed to find ways to get more people to games increase income... its why we played NZ in NZ and why we played Queensland based Teams in Queensland... so we could cash in on the opposition team fans. With our increased home game attendance and merch sales I do not believe we will need that anymore.
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Maybe, but mostly we wanted access to their pathways.


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Powerslide said:
I think this was done at a time when we had low crowd figures and lower merch sales and the Admin guys needed to find ways to get more people to games increase income... its why we played NZ in NZ and why we played Queensland based Teams in Queensland... so we could cash in on the opposition team fans. With our increased home game attendance and merch sales I do not believe we will need that anymore.
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Agree we shouldn’t need to do that in the coming years. If it’s Bundaberg we should be playing someone like Canberra.

I have no problem embracing and funding development programs in regional areas.

Bigger picture all teams should be responsible for set areas. With priority and incentives to develop players from their set area.

I think each NRL team should play a Home game in their region every year. The 6pm Friday night time slot should be reserved for this over the first 16 rounds of the season. It’s the time slot that gets the worst crowds in Sydney. The country towns knowing this is locked in would fully embrace these games.

I think something like this plan is coming. Which means we should be hand picking our area now so we can have a case of where we get.
 
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