People who say there isn't enough talent are overlooking the fact that the talent isn't spread evenly. There is plenty of talent playing backup roles at the top teams that are better than the starters for the bottom teams

I hope they maintain the name Redcliffe Dolphins, it is synonymous with Rugby League in Queensland. Clubs in Sydney are named after suburbs they represent and this name would represent qlders in the southern end.

It’s called National Rugby League not east coast rugby league

I reckon it'd be nice to have a team based in wa

100% agree with Freddie, having a local rival club in the same city could drive better performances out of both teams IMO

Adelaide Rams. Great support here. Always sells out when chooks and storm play

depends where you expand to. if you have somewhere like perth, set up an academy or something (unlike melbourne who setup in sunshine coast) and there might be enough tallent

Two divisions/conferences of 12 with promotion and relegation between. The 8 expansion teams: Redcliff dolphins North Sydney Bears PNG hunters A western Brisbane team 2nd NZ team Adelaide rams reboot 2nd Melbourne team ? WA team ? Cant happen overnight though got to put in ground work now. Pencil in 2024

Expansion should be done during a crises when your competitor's are also hurting. Hyundai and Kia's mainstream success was born out of the GFC.

100% agree with Freddy. Competition improves quality 👌

Pretty much all the clubs at present are city based clubs - I would like to see a team representing the country/rural areas and 1 from WA and NT. I think now is the time to do it. I think the season has still been great to watch regardless of the covid situation. Perhaps multiple games at same stadium is the way forward.

A team in Ipswich where the Brisbane jets would be based will be huge, lots of pacific islanders & indigenous kids live in this area, the population is booming due to interstate migration & affordable housing, the Ipswich cbd is undergoing a massive make over, lots of infrastructure, lots of jobs, a strong economy for years to come, a team in this area is a no Brainer, If Wayne Bennett comes in & what he brings to the table, his record speaks for itself

Gal missed out on saying "only in Origin" to Freddy's last question.

Expand, im down for more teams joining the sport

More teams sure , we should have another team in Brisbane , another in New Zealand too then add another in Perth then finally it would look like a NATIONAL league

Agree with Freddie time to make it happen 💯👊🏽😎👍🏼

Stuff Brisbane, bring back a Perth and an Adelaide team!

A second team in Melbourne might be a viable option when ya consider how well the current team in Melbourne is going over the last 20 or so years

There’s nothing national about rugby league, another team in Brisbane is a failure to use vision for the future of the game. The AFL is laughing at league

Freddie is right. 🤘🏾🤙🏾

100% expansion agree with Freddie. NRL is currently stagnating. There should an extra team in Brisbane, NZ and Melbourne. There should only be 2 teams in Sydney no more. We currently have 8 teams for Sydney alone its too much and we dont have massive funding like the EPL to maintain that number of clubs and support with only the fanbase of Sydney, i know people will hate this idea but it is also the reason the salary cap is so low because half the sydney clubs are struggling to afford it they are all competing for the same fanbase in the one city, if they spread out the sydney teams to other areas of Australia, the sport should gain more backers and supporters. The rest of the 6 sydney teams should be split into 2 teams for Perth, 2 for Adelaide, 1 Darwin/1 Alice Springs. If the newer city teams have an already established franchise representing their city i reckon it would garner a better fanbase since they know the clubs has history rather than starting from scratch like the Gold Coast Titans who didnt exactly kick off quite well.

The last time the NRL expanded was in 94/95. At that point there was about 5% of the playing talent from New Zealand. Now there is about 35% of the playing talent from New Zealand. So there has to be a heap of good first grade footballers that are playing in England, France or the NSW cup or Q cup that have been over looked because of age or what ever just crying out for a crack.

Ludicrous it hasent happened yet, just shows the incompetence of the bigwigs in the NRL HQ over the last decade. Should add 4 teams to take it to 20. The game would explode nationally and the talent is there. Youd overnight double the population in the NRL world. Youd have an extra 10 million people dumped into the NRL to choose the next Thurston or Cronk from. Not just from NSW or QLD. Instead of kids wanting to play for the Crows or the Dockers theyll grow up with their NRL team. Plenty of league fans in those areas too and plenty of Ex pats from England. League is the national sport of PNG for Christ sake. The untapped talent and marketing alone in PNG should be enough to do all 4 teams. In the late 80s they started the Polynesian expansion to get them into League and now teams are 75% Islanders. Plenty of PNG'rs running around to not only fill a Port Moresby team but also filter throughout the other 19 NRL teams. 1 in Perth 1 in Brisbane 1 in Adelaide 1 in PNG

Bloody oath expand, it’s about bloody time, how can you have a national rugby league but all the teams are on one side of the country, bring back the north sydney bears, one new team in Qld, one new the team in Melbourne, one new team in South Australia and two new teams in Western Australia

As an ex Sydneysider who grew up on league and now lives in Adelaide, would love to have an NRL team here.

There should be another club in Brisbane and one in Adelaide and Perth ..The other one to make 20 can come from wherever?? Maybe NT or NZ ??

Replace the Wests Tigers with a 2nd Brisbane team.

The difference between the top 6 and bottom 10 is huge so just throwing more teams in is not the answer. Maybe a second division would be the answer if you have more teams????. Do we have enough quality players??

Nevermind ausy teams we need another NZ team. Ausys out to keep nz where it is with league, they know if we have another team NZ rugby league will improve which scares them

Get it happening, we need expansion.

I think we should do a system where 12 teams are in the first division, 12 teams are in second division & 12 teams in third division and make it if you finish in the bottom 3 you are entered in a best of 3 series against the top 3 teams of the lower division to fight for there right to remain, would be easy to make new teams and enter them in 3rd division and they can fight there way to first division & do a top 6 to win the comp Example: Division 1 -----------‐-------------------‐----------------------- 1. Melbourne Storm (VIC) 2. South Sydney Rabbitohs (NSW) 3. Sydney City Roosters (NSW) 4. Manly Sea Eagles (NSW) 5. Penrith Panthers (NSW) 6. Parramatta Eels (NSW) ---------------------------------------------------------- 7. Newcastle Knights (NSW) 8. Canterbury Bulldogs (NSW) 9. Gold Coast Titans (QLD) --------------------------------------------------------- 10. Brisbane Broncos (QLD) 11. Auckland Warriors (NZ) 12. Canberra Raiders (ACT) -------------------‐----‐------‐-----------‐‐-------‐------- Division 2 ------------------‐--------------------------------‐------- 1. North Queensland Cowboys (QLD) 2. Central Queensland Capras (QLD) 3. South Queensland Jets (QLD) ------------------------------------------------------------ 4. North Brisbane Dolphins (QLD) 5. South Brisbane Tigers (QLD) 6. Sunshine Coast Falcons (QLD) 7. Northern Pride (QLD) 8. Western Suburb Magpies (NSW) 9. North Sydney Bears (NSW) ---------------------------------------------------------- 10. Illawarra Steelers (NSW) 11. St George Dragons (NSW) 12. Cronulla Sharks (NSW) --------------‐-------------‐-------‐----------------------- Division 3 -----‐-‐-----------‐--------------------------------------- 1. West Coast Giants (WA) 2. Fremantle Wolfpack (WA) 3. South Perth Lions (WA) ------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Port Lincoln Cougars (SA) 5. Adelaide Stallions (SA) 6. Port Adelaide Rams (SA) 7. North Melbourne Hawks (VIC) 8. South Melbourne Wildcats (VIC) 9. Papa New Guinea Hunters (PNG 10. Wellington Orcus (NZ) 11. Christchurch Chiefs (NZ) 12. Tasmanian Devils (TAS) ----‐----------------------------‐------------------------- 12 New South Wales Teams, 9 Queensland Teams, 3 South Australian Teams, 3 Western Australian Teams, 3 Victorian Teams, 3 New Zealand Teams, 1 Australian Capital Territory Team, 1 Tasmanian team, 1 Papa New Guinea Team with the bottom of division 3 to play whatever team looking to enter the competition

Redcliffe Dolphin's , Ipswich Jet's or a sunny coast team not another Brisbane team

So many great teams worth bringing back including north Sydney bears western reds and Adelaide rams and Gold Coast chargers

I love Wayne Bennett. Expand the NRL and expand the international game.

Agree with Fittler

I’m with Freddy

Well said freddy

GWS and Gold Coast got extra salary cap space to get started

We don’t need another team in Brisbane. We have the broncos. Down the road we have the titans. You’re not gonna get another 30,000 people going to games just because you add another team up here. Especially if you’re still wanting to charge us $50 minimum to go and see it, it’s not viable. You split Brisbane up you’ll just have another Sydney situation with between 1-10k people watching one team and another 1-10k watching the other team. Give other qld locations a team. Qld is the heartland of nrl, not just Brisbane. Rocky would be great, people drive hours to go to the cowboys give them another team closer.

Honestly, as someone who was born and raised in Adelaide but now lives in NSW, I can certainly confirm that Adelaide ain’t ever gonna have an NRL team. Big AFL and cricket town, and just very little to no support for league down there.

Im in shock. I actually agree with Freddy.

Bring back the bears

2 teams at least

Plenty of talent ready to go Bring back some old teams bring back old supporters ! Some good rivalries - 20 years in the making 🐏 rams vs reds 🦘 Crushers 🚂 vs Titans ⭐️ Mariners 💪 vs knights ⚔️ 🛡

Give an NRL team to a state that could not give two hoots about NRL.... Meanwhile Central Coast have been after a team forever but keep giving new team to Gold Coast. They are at team 3 now......

Team from NT

theres already a lack of quality in the comp and they want to expand?

People keep saying there's not enough talent There's more teams in the Qld cup than nsw cup, there's plenty of talent in Qld

Can we please get the Illawarra Steelers back?

We should start teams in Adelaide, Darwin, Perth and Timor so we can not play in all of those places as well.

Rugby League is the only sport in the world that can't grow hahaha

Too many teams already. Unless they are going to have 36 rounds the draw is unfair.

CAIRNS BROTHERS SHOULD BE THE 18TH TEAM

Lets go Perth Pansies! make it happen!

The broncos have deliberately been tanking to scare off the nrl from Brisbane expansion.

Time to expand? Why do you want to add more water to a whiskey that's already 70% water? The comp is so thin on talent it's not funny. Adding ANOTHER team to the comp already dilutes a very watered down comp. Currently there are only 4 teams who can genuinely win the competition (Storm, Panthers, Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs) while the 12 other clubs are simply making up the numbers and you want to add ANOTHER team in this mess of a comp? 75% of the competition can't win the comp but let's add more to that. Please.

I’m from the future brad filter was right

Brisbane Brown Snakes baybeee ssssk sssssk

Get rid of a Sydney club first. My vote is for Roosters to merge with Rabbitohs.

Worry more about raising the salary cap instead of expanding so player's aren't switching codes There is a team with only 2 wins

Melbourne hasn't worked. After millions of dollars and over 20 years they are still a SE Queensland team instead of a Victorian team. They produce no players down south. There are still only 750 registered players in all of Victoria. And half of those are comprised of ladies and kids playing touch football. By comparison WA has over 30,000 registered players and a local League culture with little input from the NRL at all. About time we rewarded League nurseries with their own team instead of propping up Melbourne. They will just change the channel. Victorians certainly won't stop playing. They never started.

Get rid of the Titans for starters and then bring in a team from Perth , Adelaide and a second team in Brisbane . A second team in Brisbane is well overdue.Maybe a team from the central coast NSW and retweak the rules somewhat to tighten the game to minimise the blowouts we have had this year.Oh and leave the Sydney comp as is .

How stupid for the NRL to have a second Brisbane team. You have Adelaide, Cairns, Hobart, Perth and Darwin without teams and you only want another team in a city that already has an NRL team. How stupid. Also what’s with the most laughable and stupid names. Firehawks, Jets and Dolphins. That had to be the most stupidest and laughable names I’ve ever heard. No one will support the “new” Brisbane team. Also, get your own stadium. Don’t use Suncorp

GAL ARE YOU SOFT. MR BENNET JUST SAID STRAIGHT UP THAT COACHES ARE NOT GETTING THE MOST OUT OF PLAYERS. hello, mcfly anyone home

There simply isn't the talent in the comp.

first

was gonna listen to this until i heard erins voice

we need relegation.