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Looks like we could be about to enter a golden period.......2 wealthy owners

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Great news, they've been competeing while spending well below the cap they could go on to very big things.

Kiss of death for them,i tipped em as Grand Final winners in couple of footy tipping comps at work.

Fantastic news for the game in NZ,hopefully this will lead to the Warriors winning a GF pretty soon.

a crowd of 37.5K today would have boosted the coffers nicely!

New Zealand need a 2nd club for the game to big in New Zealand outside of South Auckland.

I live in Wellington and the City is ready to have a franchise.

Wellington Orcas.

Oh this is great news,what a crowd that is,looking good for RL in NZ.

I suspect that the club may look at taking 2 games on the road next year.....one here in Wellington, another in the south Island.

Rumoured to be a bid from Wellington in the pipeline. I am surprised the NZRL were suggesting they may lead a bid for a team in Christchurch?

Probably left it to late for this expansion but for 2020??

Got a very rare Warriors heritage jersey in a size medium brand new with tags for sale on ebay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Zealand-W ... 3cc7f76bd9 simply a duplicate gifts, this is one of the nicest shirts you could ever wish to own

Got a very rare Warriors heritage jersey in a size medium brand new with tags for sale on ebay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Zealand-W ... 3cc7f76bd9 simply a duplicate gifts, this is one of the nicest shirts you could ever wish to own

Quote ="D-Sawyer"Got a very rare Warriors heritage jersey in a size medium brand new with tags for sale on ebay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Zealand-W ... 3cc7f76bd9 simply a duplicate gifts, this is one of the nicest shirts you could ever wish to own'" shop down the road is full of them....

Quote ="D-Sawyer"Got a very rare Warriors heritage jersey in a size medium brand new with tags for sale on ebay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Zealand-W ... 3cc7f76bd9 simply a duplicate gifts, this is one of the nicest shirts you could ever wish to own'" shop down the road is full of them....

NZ really needs a second franchise. It should be a priority to expand the audience etc.

If they could find the funds, the interest and the players and ground, a South Island could stoke up more interest in NZ.

Christchurch would be ideal to go into the South Island. AMI Stadium would be brilliant! Probably not realistic though.

New Zealand:
The National Average for Maori/Pacifica population is 22%.


Auckland Region has a 25% M/P population....22% in the city
Wellington Region has a 21% M/P population... 13% in the city.
Canterbury Region has 11% both in and around the City
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Statistically, Maori/Pacifica represents 43% of the region to the direct south of Mount Smart Stadium, Manukau City.
In the smaller areas immediately surrounding the stadium itself, this drops to about 40%.
The reason the Warriors are situated where they are, is to put it bluntly, because that's where their social and racial demographic are based...

Around Eden Park....this M/P percentage drops to 14%.....


Wellington RL has 8 Premier sides....7 of which come from The Hutt Valley or Porirua....30% M/P Population......

I can't prove it, but in my opinion, some of the stats above are why Owen Glenn was quoted as saying he wanted a second Auckland NRL side which he would fund to "set up"..... there are about 150,000 M/P in Manakau, another 90,000 in Auckland...with another 60,000 to the East within 20 kms.....and another 20,000 less than 10kms north...about 330,000 within a 20km radius each way...

In the Entire Wellington Region there are only 95,000....in Canterbury less than 60,000..... there's over double that within a 20 minute drive of Mount Smart.

I would have 2nd NRL team based in Wellington, playing 6 there and 6 in Chrischurch...neither region or city has the M/P population to attract 15k+ to 12 games, but a 1/2 season ticket costing $120 would see both grounds/centres shift 10,000 ticketed memberships each easily......20,000 members straight up.....get a winning team in there and I reckon they'd be up to 30,000 within 5 years.

When the Kiwis play, TV figures go between 250k-300k....when the Warriors play, it's 100k to 150k......there is an audience on the Box for non - Auckland RL......

Go the SOUTHERN ORCAS!

I don't like the idea of going half and half to be honest. The club would lack identity.

Where do you get 12 games from as well? If the NRL expands in 2015 it would be 18 teams. That would mean 17 home games.

Sports fans here in NZ are fickle creatures......but wellingtonians and cantabrians would unite happily against the JAFA's (just another f**king Auckander)....I doubt a stand alone team in Wellington or Christchurch would work.
The NZ V England game in the 2010 4 Nations was a hard sell......trying to get even half that crowd for 12 games would prove near impossible....but 6 "EVENT" games for $120........easy peasy lemon sqeezy IMO.



They don't play 15 H/A with a league of 16......I doubt the number of games in a season will go up much more.....what with SoO and Anzac tests and the top 8 play-offs, the season is about as long as it can get without damaging the product.

I just assumed they did! How does that work? Who plays who?

26 Regular season rounds
12 home, 12 away, 2 byes
rotates between teams..........Warriors this year will miss trips to Newcastle, Bankstown and the Bunnies....
Teams that won't come to NZ this year are the Dragons, the eels and the tigers.....

Living in Wellington, I try to get to all the home matches, but sometimes, it's ony a few bucks more to miss the home game and fly to Sydney to catch them away......but it's still a bloody expensive "hobby".

That is just daft.

Shhhh...you'll be shot for criticising the NRL on here

Not really, it's a system that works well and doesn't flog the star players.

It also means your allowed more clubs.

MY ANSWER WAS BETTER

Your missing a couple of people aren't you?

TFC on LU is great.....Eels and EA are getting slightly annoyed that I'm still there....it's a great place for winding them up.

Back on Thread.

24 regular season games is enough.......