NRL18
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Tag: expansion
BNE2.3: What is the point of it?
Previously, in our series on Brisbane expansion: BNE2 or On Expansion and its relationship with Brisbane BNE2.1: The game done changed BNE2.2: The Gemba Report ***** A football club has an identity. Three things comprise a club’s identity: purpose, mythology and reality. Let’s explore those ideas with some NRL case studies. The mythology of the… Read More BNE2.3: What is the point of it?
BNE2.2: The Gemba Report
Previously, in our series on Brisbane expansion: BNE2 or On Expansion and its relationship with Brisbane BNE2.1: The game done changed ***** The short version is that twelve NRL clubs have chipped in to get a study (that the ARLC probably should have commissioned themselves) to look at the impacts of expansion on the competition.… Read More BNE2.2: The Gemba Report
A guide to current ARLC policy for the NRL
Peter V’Landys and his team have already floated a lot of ideas to improve the NRL this year, a competition so obviously broken beyond repair that only their special skillset could fix it. The ideas are always frustratingly vague, lacking in details beyond one or two keywords, and there is never an explanation as to… Read More A guide to current ARLC policy for the NRL
Big brain essay #2: Growing trees or growing grass
It’s BiG bRaIn EsSaY week on pythagonrl.com. I’ve written a series of approximately 75% thought-out, unpolished essays about somewhat obvious and/or somewhat unhinged things that probably belong on The Roar but I’ve decided to use my own platform to get off my chest. When talking about how they’d like the sport to look, rugby league… Read More Big brain essay #2: Growing trees or growing grass
BNE2.1: The game done changed
“It is, at the end of the day, all rather stupid” Last year was an illuminating time for those who closely follow the working man’s game. If, like me, you’ve only been a keen trainspotter for a few years, we might not remember older train wrecks, like Crusaders. Conveniently, the Toronto Wolfpack experience, which saw… Read More BNE2.1: The game done changed
BNE2 or, On Expansion and its relationship with Brisbane
Six months ago, the Titans were on the chopping block to keep the Sydney clubs alive and some think still should be. With the NRL’s footprint study having presumably been delivered to the ARLC, if not the general public, Peter V’Landys has let drop that he’s not interested in taking the NRL to Perth and… Read More BNE2 or, On Expansion and its relationship with Brisbane
On Expansion and its relationship with Sydney
Another week, another expansion bone has been tossed to the ravenous dogs that are NRL nerds on social media to endlessly chew over. I say that like I wasn’t in there first and not still gnawing on it. I just can’t help myself. This week, the target was the south-east Queensland expansion team dropped into… Read More On Expansion and its relationship with Sydney
A study in rugby league mortality
We’re talking about the clubs, not actual people, so it probably won’t be as depressing as the title implies. This started out as an examination of which rugby league club could claim to be the best expansion team, in the same vein as the Vegas Golden Knights who disputed the NHL’s Stanley Cup in their… Read More A study in rugby league mortality
Opinion – More Cap test cases for NRL expansion
Last time, we went off-piste and moved from rigorous analysis to speculative analysis. Let’s go further off-piste and apply Cap in ways that it was never meant to be (that’s why we’ve switched from “Analysis” to “Opinion”, even I have my limits). Brisbane Because of the capacity constraints discussed a few weeks ago, it’s a… Read More Opinion – More Cap test cases for NRL expansion
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