As an adoption of Western Australia who loves the Rugby League, I can’t wait for Perth Bears to enter the composition in 2027. The ambitions of the code to become a truly national competition require it, and the renewal of the North Sydney Bears as an displaced Perth team is the perfect bridge between the old and the new.
He gives the new franchise an immediate supporters base in Sydney when he plays on the road, as well as a story and a culture of the first day to help strengthen his presence in Perth.
It will inevitably be a challenge to take up the AFL in one of its heart areas, but Perth is also filled with expatriates from the East Coast. Although the term “expatriates” is supposed to apply only to people living in a new country, the West is such an isolated community that it can also be applied to a passage to WA.
Let us not forget, WA voted to separate from the rest of Australia in 1933, with a 66% vote in favor of doing so.
This has never happened, of course, but the separatist culture continued, popular polls on the issue continue to reveal a feeling of “we pay them”. This is why the voting models in Wa do not follow what is happening elsewhere across the country.
The choice of the inaugural CEO of the new franchise is another blow by the boss of the Australian rugby league commission Peter V’landys and the CEO of NRL Andrew Abdo.
The former Director of News and Current Affairs of Channel Seven, Anthony de Ceglie, will be the CEO of the Bears of Perth while they try to break the AFL workforce on the State
The Bears played first -year football in the north of Sydney from 1908 to 1999, presenting legends like Mario Fenech (photo with his teammate Sean Hoppe) – giving the team a huge step ahead while they are trying to make their mark in Wa
The Bears will be the “perfect bridge between the old and the new” in the capital of Western Australia (photo, David Fairleigh playing for North Sydney)
Say what you like about this pair, they are not afraid to prevail to AFL in the Codes War, and in recent years, the LNR has surpassed its rivals.
Who better to direct the LNR push in WA than a former newspaper boss of Western Australia and the national chief of news and current affairs of Channel Seven, Anthony de Ceglie.
The West and Channel Seven are the biggest players in the Wa and Ceglie media from Nullarbor, described as a “real Western Australian” by V’landys when he was announced.
Although I cannot claim the same status, having not been passed to WA in adulthood, the state of the AFL-Mad is desperate for more local sports and the arrival of the Bears in 2027 is an excellent opportunity to build the code as a really national competition.
Australians living elsewhere have trouble fully appreciating how parish.
The Prime Minister of State is considered a Prime Minister that a Prime Minister, the policy of the State dominating the coverage of national policy in the West, not something we see elsewhere.
Isolation – Perth is the main most isolated city in the world – feeds these feelings. Even those like me who have transformed the state into their adoptive house join.
Although I have seen concerns expressing that the rugby league could have trouble finding its feet on the other side of the country, the development of a management program and paths which is more than inserting the staff of the east coast in the West is a prerequisite for success. The appointment of de Ceglie sends an important message locally.
Footy Supremo Peter V’landys (Center) and the CEO of NRL Andrew Abdo (right photo, with Wa Premier Roger Cook) have surpassed AFL in recent years
The daring move from the LNR to Perth comes while the eagles of the west coast (photo) persist one of the worst periods in club history
The recent decision of the local newspaper to use an indignation simulation to condemn the state’s government decision to invest in the arrival of the Bears, splashing with a derogatory first page when the official announcement was made last week, was more criticism from the government of the state spending money in support of the new team than an attack on the code itself.
Prime Minister Roger Cook’s decision to support the Bears only increases the chances of success of the new franchise. It’s a positive net, of course.
Much of the money is designed to help build the code from the base, which will be important for its ability to compete with Australian rules and rugby.
A Perth franchise arrived and came quickly during the 1990s war of the Super League. The merger of the competition associated with financial challenges associated with what was a team convened in a hurry contributed to its fall.
But since that time, Perth has grown up as a market, just like the game. These lessons have been important to get the right step this time.
The opportunity to open WA as a destination for Australians on the East Coast to be considering traveling is another important reason why the government of the State supported the offer. A four -hour flight between Sydney and Perth is considered by some as too far to make the trip, which would not represent a barrier for them if they gave the West a chance, even once.
The city, the Swan river (which looks more like a port) and the lifestyle “Down South” mean that most of the other parts of the country seem to be positively in comparison. The opening of WA to the Rugby League community will only develop the state, if the current West Aussie can keep their minds open to let others appreciate what their condition has to offer.
In politics, we often move our leaders without thinking big, not taking the time to consider and properly manufacture what they want to do afterwards. It is a short -term reflection problem which wins on long -term planning and foresight.
Perhaps we need tastes of the LNR management to try politics then, because at the national level, the ability to “think big” is sorely lacking.
