Bears could be stuffed again by Q'land!

"a consortium headed by Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale and officials from the Ipswich Jets Queensland Cup club believe the time is right for a second Brisbane team.



Jets chairman Stephen Johnson this month met NRL boss David Gallop to advise him of the bid for a team on the western outskirts of Brisbane, which proposes to play games at Suncorp Stadium."

do what arko did in 1995 and put in 4 teams.



whoever misses out this time will join adeladie in 2018.

That wouldn't be the case. 2 reasons they wouldn't get a spot.



1. Independent Commission and existing teams vote "no" to more expansion teams in 2013.



2. Bears don't get a spot as they're too close too Sydney and cannot proves they'll survive there.





It would have nothing to do with QLD.

I can guarantee if there was no Brisbane 2 bid an there is expansion it would be Bears and Reds. If the Ipswich bid is well constructed it will be Reds and Jets as I am sure the NRL would prefer a second Brisbane team over an 11th NSW team, just like the Titans bid which was weaker than the CC Bears bid but was given another year to improve.

I nearly choked on my brekkie when I read that in the Queensland Times this morning. There have been mutterings about this for a while, but I didn't realise a formal approach was being prepared.



Very interesting indeed. If the Jets get the gig, I suppose I'll have to switch allegiances.



Which is no big deal, seeing I'm a Bronks supporter.



There's much more cred in following a side that's likely to be crap...

I think this should be the way to go West Brisbane(Ippy and Logan) and North Brisbane (North, Redcliffe and Sunny Coast).



I think because of the GWS threat the Bears will get in shores up the Bears old territory and the Central Coast. The Bears bid atm actually reminds me of the Titans bid where most people actually can see them as favourites for expansion.



So in all

2013

CC Bears and W A Reds (these two have ready built stadiums already and the CC have 2200 members already)



2017

West Brisbane (I associate Jets with Newtown) personally I like Wolves

North Brisbane Dolphins

The Jets (however named) would almost certainly play home games at Suncorp. It looked built when I passed through Milton on the train home from work yesterday...

and the other day when I did as well haha



But that's a lot of traffic playing wise from Suncorp isn't it?

Broncos 1 week

West Brisbane RL the next week

Qld Reds RU

Brisbane Roar during some of the season and off season



plus

SoO

Test matches for league and union

and not to mention the Socceroos will probably play there in the future

they won't knock back the bears or the reds.



these other teams will come later.

Until this season when the turf supplier changed, Etihad handled game after game just fine. As does the 'G even now. And that's without the benefit of Brisbane sun in winter.



Suncorp will stand it - and be a better use of public monies by being tenanted more often...

I can see tge Bears getting shafted again if Gallop decides he likes the idea of another Q'land team, have to feel sorry for the Bears team if this happens as they have done everything possible to put together a good bid. Having said that I can see that a Brisbane 2 is probably more valsuable in the long termthan another NSW team. Mind you SOO would be dead in the water with another team of players for Q'land to pick from!