Taken them along time but finally the NRL has chosen a new team for the competition.

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Yeah is definitely good for the game to have strong French clubs.

18th team in , in 2027 id say hopefully it will be perth Adelaide & NZ2 in 2032 wow this code of ours is on the precipice of swamping all competitors in Australasia in the next 10 years :cool: hopefully it is not that long for the 18th team. a Bye for 5 years ..... NRL has so much potential and...

Are talking about an 18th team in 5 years now. Hopefully Perth.

Will be interesting to see how they go if they play the Penrith Panthers in the world club challenge.

Stuff the AFL dreams about, another country playing their sport at a professional level.

AFL would be looking at putting their sport in the Olympics purely for promotional reasons. Giving their sport an overseas audience. Something that never happens at the moment. It would not be a good sell though. They have no other countries playing the sport professionally. So the quality would be ...

Made sense to move it. A lot of Storm Fans probably watch AFL too if they grew up in Melbourne.

If it was two areas that don't have AFL teams like Auckland vs Newcastle, it probably wouldn't have needed to be changed.

Yep Storm had a bad day out. Still clearly the best side of the year. Never been a fan of the way finals are valued and yes, know I’m in a minority … but best team for me is who finishes on top after home and away. I am not so sure if they were the best team in the first half of the year. Remember ...

but we have the midgets the greater western blackheath to madagascar midgets :lol: :lol: :(/ :(/ :rofl: :rofl: Yeah that is pretty ridiculous.Why don't they call themselves CWS Canberra Western Sydney lol.. Is so stupid the way AFL has done it. Is like if the Melbourne Storm decided to play a few g...

If AFL have any sense they will put a team in Canberra when the new team starts in Tasmania.
Whether the AFL have deep enough pockets to do that might be the question.
Call the them Canberra Cutters or Canberra Capitals or even the Crushers... something like that.

While it would have been a lot better to see expansion in new markets like Adelaide or Perth. A second Brisbane team is still a start. Seems like the Dolphins almost have it in the bag and will likely be called Sunshine State Dolphins. Will definitely be a healthy rivalry to have two Brisbane teams ...

Glad the underdogs who haven't won in ages took it out. Even though I never saw the game. I actually thought it was going to be on Sunday

You would think they would want to put a team in Canberra before the Northern Territory. Canberra is the largest city without their own AFL team. but we have the midgets the greater western blackheath to madagascar midgets :lol: :lol: :(/ :(/ :rofl: :rofl: Yeah that is pretty ridiculous.Why don't t...

Probably would be hard to know with two teams from another city playing on the other side of the country. Was very little media coverage on it in Sydney.

They can't really call themselves the indigenous game with stories like this out..

Is actually just a rip off of Gaelic Football anyway. Were a lot of Irish in Australia at that time.