So expandig to actually make this resemble a NSW Cup, instead of just a "NSW" (Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong) Cup has Sydney people whinging about travel. Imagine my surprise.

That's why this comp is a joke and will never go close to matching the Qld Cup. It's a Sydney-centric reserve grade flimsily dressed up as a statewide comp.

PS: They have an airport in Albury, believe it or not.

NSW = Newcastle - Sydney - Wollongong

Everyone knows this

I have to admit. The repsonses form our queensland friends is funny.

Because as a foreigner, it's exactly the sort of thing the fair people of NSW say about Queenslanders... apart from travelling of course. You lot win that hands down up there. Didn't anyone up there think about living closer together at all?

As an FYI. Wyong are IN now. And have a rather large budget compared to other clubs. So we have 13 teams now for 2013.


One serious question for you both is what do Queenslanders think about having a team from New South Wales in the comp up there. Would you prefer not to?

ECT isn't a Queenslander. He just talks a lot of sense which is probably why he is commonly mistaken for a Queenslander.

No problem with Tweed Heads in the QLD comp. Just as there shouldn't have been any probs with Manly and Canberra fielding their reserve teams in the QLD Cup.

If states lines ever interfere with the good of the game then common sense should win out. Pity under the NSW dominated ARL that never happened and we had so many retarded situations because of the Sydney-based morons running the game into the ground.

If you are talking about Wyong, they are one of the richest Rugby League clubs going around.
In the last 20 years or so they have bought up 7 licensed clubs on the central coast and own around 100 million worth of real estate including golf courses, tennis clubs, a dozen football fields etc etc etc.
All this is owned by the football club - not a seperate body, but the same board who runs the RL team manages a 100 million dollar business.

A few years ago they ran and funded the Central Coast Storm as a feeder club for Melbourne, and then the ran and funded the Central Coast Centurions as a feeder club for the Knights.

They go into the comp with a 400k budget for player payments, and probably about the same for coaching and training staff.

which is a lot more than other existing clubs in the comp. Only difference is that they all get players back from the NRL to play in their team.

There is much talk again about having the State Cup games as the curtain raiser for NRL games instead of the U20s. There may be a hitch though as the feeder clubs may not want to play their home games at the NRL clubs venue. ie. Mounties would play all their home games at Canberra Stadium etc. etc.