10 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Rowell was born and bred in suburban Melbourne.  Never connected to the Suns. 

One of my cousins in Melbourne was trying to get into the Sun's academy - they have long tentacles.

12 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

And their biggest crowd will be 10k unless a big Melbourne team is playing during school holidays.

Total waste of money and talent

Don't agree with this.  Unlike GWS, there is a genuine following and high standard grass roots competition for Aussie Rules on the Gold Coast.  As much as the bleed of tallent has hurt us in particular, I think that GC are the surer money bet for sustainable growth of the game into Northern market's.

If the are sucessful, they will regularly pack out Carrara, which is a great stadium to attend and watch footy from.  Hoping to watch us beat Freo there in a few weeks.

16 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

One of my cousins in Melbourne was trying to get into the Sun's academy - they have long tentacles.

Not that long ... it stops at nth NSW 

This place is good for a laugh sometimes. Not quite sure what "malicious" factors the OP is alluding to, but there's 3 possible scenarios:

1) Gold Coast have hit some good form due to astute recruiting, a young talented list starting to gel, good coaching and the significant advantage of playing all their games on their home turf;

2) They've spent the last decade tanking;

3) Secret AFL Illuminati agenda. 

I'm not going to rule out option 1 just yet.

They've got the best young list in the league and have now added more mature bodies around the kids. They've managed to hold onto the kids and start building. They've implemented a fast running gameplan. They win enough ball in tight and spread better than most from the congestion. They might slow up like they have in previous years, but you can clearly see their gamestyle and young talent maturing. 

I'm happy to see them coming good. Their creation was rubbish, but that aside it would've been bloody hard to build a team up their without much support. It's always good to see struggling teams come good and knock off the Hawthorns and Geelongs. Hope they go a fair way this year.

And yes, Rowell is a genuine star. Wish any of our plethora of high draft picks were as good as him! Would give my left nut to get Ben King into our forward line too!

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2 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Don't agree with this.  Unlike GWS, there is a genuine following and high standard grass roots competition for Aussie Rules on the Gold Coast.  As much as the bleed of tallent has hurt us in particular, I think that GC are the surer money bet for sustainable growth of the game into Northern market's.

If the are sucessful, they will regularly pack out Carrara, which is a great stadium to attend and watch footy from.  Hoping to watch us beat Freo there in a few weeks.

what was the Bears average crowd?

How have Brisbane fared post their premierships.

What is the average crowd for the Titans?

It's a sporting desert and always will be

4 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

A bit of thread creep, but I couldn't believe so many of those marks were allowed against us.  The kick practically went to a player 5m away from the man on the mark.  Fffing ridiculous.

And the 1 they called play on was when Hawkins had May on his wrong leg and May actually pulled up expecting it to be paid. Hawkins spun around beating him easily.

4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

what was the Bears average crowd?

When the Bears were there around 1988, population of the Gold Coast was around 150,000 and the change rooms were tin sheds; it's now up around 700,000 and they have a world class stadium.