WA expected to win NRL licence

[AndyS]

Well, at least the theme song is easy for a League team......."Bing Bang Bong (That's a Pirate Song)" by the Wiggles, and maybe Captain Feathersword carrying a big pipe as the mascot.

[jono]

Wonder if you guys will be able to get decent rum
At home games though?
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[Elf1]

Wonder if you guys will be able to get decent rum
At home games though?
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Sure can its called BYO

[zimeric]

i think its quite cute... but thats just me, i usually dont giva .... with all the potential unnuendo a name might carry.

[travelling_gerry]

.... ... innuendo ....

Italian suppository?

[shasta]

Just saw a grab on the news. They reckon more than 50% of a survey said Reds was a negative. Associated with failure.

Most of those must be arrivals post 1997, I'd reckon. Bloody Eastern Staters.
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[Burgs]

Shut the border...

[Ralto]

Just saw a grab on the news. They reckon more than 50% of a survey said Reds was a negative. Associated with failure.

Most of those must be arrivals post 1997, I'd reckon. Bloody Eastern Staters.
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Had my money on West Coast Numbats, can't believe they didn't go with it.

[GIGS20]

I can't wait till the next expansion when they'll play the Nimbin Ninjas

[GAFFA]

Had my money on West Coast Numbats, can't believe they didn't go with it.

Dont mess with a Numbat! BASYIE HARD

[beige]

The bidding war for a Perth-based team in an expanded National Rugby League competition has turned dirty with the two rivals embroiled in a battle of words.

Claims of a conflict of interest, an attempt to turn a WA Rugby League board member, questions on franchise funding and the true motives behind the bids surfaced as the WARL launched the West Coast Pirates as the new face of the sport they hope will take them into the national competition.

_The West Australian _can reveal that four weeks ago a secret meeting was held between WARL chief executive John Sackson and board chairman Richard Campbell and rival syndicate members Tony Sage, who owns Perth Glory, and former Balmain Tigers legend Benny Elias.

The meeting, organised by Elias, was said to be amicable but no decisions were taken.

But it is understood that within an hour of the meeting at a Leederville restaurant the Sage-Elias syndicate had contacted a WARL board member and tried to recruit him.

Sage said the WARL would not be able to match the $110 million, 10-year deal he was offering, would need Australian Rugby League help and would fund the bid from money from grassroots rugby.

He also claimed the WARL was boasting it had already won the licence.

Read more: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-...e-stormy-seas/

[Stone Cold]

Not a bad name.

Imagine a crowd full of rum filled people dressed as pirates bellowing out sea shanties...eg: "What do you do with a drunken sailor?"

Could be fun and wouldn't matter how bad the team is initially...

[normie]

It is a sound commercial decision. There are so many big businesses, (e.g. Banks, Insurance companies, Casinos, mining companies) that can relate to pirates, with their plundering ways, that they will have sponsors queueing up for a bit of the action.

[The InnFORCEr]

Not a bad name.

Imagine a crowd full of rum filled people dressed as pirates bellowing out sea shanties...eg: "What do you do with a drunken sailor?"

Could be fun and wouldn't matter how bad the team is initially...

Is big Dell making a comeback

[normie]