Cronulla to contest NSW Cup
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Babikam65
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Yeah this great news. NSW cup isn't quite as strong as say the Qld Cup, but it's still better to have our boys keeping up their match fittness for when they aren't being selected for FG games, and a lot better for us than clubs like NewCastle who play their guys in a park footy side in Nelsons Bay.
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Have they kept the majority of players from last years squad? Or have they releaed most of them because we werent intending to field a team? I wonder how many guys we still have contracted that will play in this comp. Maybe we will have to find some more players?
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that is great news, we were in all sorts without being able to field a team, means we would of had no good way of bringing through the players.
Great News!!!
I was very surprised when they released the info. last week that we wouldnt be fielding a team that more people didnt really have a spew.
Great News!!!
I was very surprised when they released the info. last week that we wouldnt be fielding a team that more people didnt really have a spew.
selmes n donnelly released, afamasaga gone to someone I can't remember who!
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It never crossed my mind. Too sluggish. Like Tronc.. but worse.
Good news for development and match fitness but as people have said, we have gotten rid of alot of the guys who would have played in that side. Will be very useful for guys like Flanagan or perhaps Poms tho if they can't quite make the side and will also be useful if some of the new younsters push their way into the side.
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Yeah, totally agree!
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Sharks-Blues deal sunk: Cronulla's NSW Cup entry shatters feeder planNewcastle HeraldThe Blues had hoped to act as a feeder club to the Sharks and, in turn, be bolstered next Newcastle Rugby League season by the inclusion of senior Cronulla ...
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Sharks-Blues deal sunk: Cronulla's NSW Cup entry shatters feeder plan
BY BRETT KEEBLE
09 Dec, 2009 04:00 AM
THE proposed joint venture between the Northern Blues and Cronulla Sharks has been effectively scuttled before it even set sail.
The Blues had hoped to act as a feeder club to the Sharks and, in turn, be bolstered next Newcastle Rugby League season by the inclusion of senior Cronulla players not required for NRL duty.
But Cronulla's decision on Friday to field a second-tier team in the NSW Rugby League's NSW Cup competition next year has diluted their planned partnership with the Blues.
Newcastle Rugby League general manager Steve Fleming said he had not received formal notification from the Blues about the alliance, and until he had he could not support it.
Fleming said there had been overtures from Newcastle clubs in 2007 to form similar partnerships with Manly and South Sydney "but they were knocked on the head by the board".
"It hasn't been discussed at board level yet and I've spoken to the Bay about that this morning," Fleming said yesterday.
"I applaud their initiative, but until they put a formal proposal to us, and until our board can sit and discuss it, we can't support it. The first we heard about it was what we read in the paper [The Herald] yesterday."
Blues secretary Geoff Bulmer said in The Herald on Monday: "The Newcastle Rugby League are 100 per cent behind us."
But Bulmer said yesterday that the proposal still had to be ratified by the NSWRL, Country Rugby League and Newcastle Rugby League, and conceded it might not proceed next year.
Bulmer said the Blues would notify the Newcastle board "in writing", and that a joint venture with Cronulla had the support of other Newcastle clubs and was good for the game.
"It's got to go formally through NSW Rugby League, CRL and certainly Newcastle, because we're coming across borders. All of these things have to be sat down and discussed and submitted to one another, and I don't have a problem with any of that," he said.
"I see it as a really big positive, not only for our club, but for rugby league in Newcastle."
Bulmer was confident the Blues would still be able to use some Sharks players next year despite Cronulla's decision to stay in the NSW Cup.
"The sooner we can do it, the better . . . I see a lot of positives in the whole thing. I cannot see one negative in it," he said.
"If it doesn't get up this year, it's certainly got to get up some time in the future because we need to lift the profile of this competition."
Sharks chief executive Richard Fisk said his club would honour their commitment to the Blues but fielding a NSW Cup team had changed the landscape.
Fisk said Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart was "good friends" with Blues coach and former Bulldogs teammate Robert Relf and they intended getting together to swap ideas.
"We'll still be doing something with them. To be honest, we were in a difficult situation and they put their hand up to help us and it was always on condition that we didn't enter a team in the NSW Cup," Fisk said.
"It's quite early days, because a week ago we were moving down the track of a joint venture with them, and circumstances changed very quickly. We're now in with a NSW Cup team, but we want to honour any moral obligations we have with Nelson Bay.
"I think it will work more in a coaching area."
Knights chief executive Steve Burraston said his club was not concerned about the Blues' intention to align with the Sharks.
"That's a decision for them and the Newcastle Rugby League. We don't run the Newcastle Rugby League and they need to make decisions in the best interests of their competition and their district and their junior development," Burraston said.
Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/sport/rugby-league/sharksblues-deal-sunk-cronullas-nsw-cup-entry-shatters-feeder-plan/1699599.aspx&usg=AFQjCNHK_3kEq3lIPyCv2s5nWWed8FMtkg
Sharks-Blues deal sunk: Cronulla's NSW Cup entry shatters feeder plan
BY BRETT KEEBLE
09 Dec, 2009 04:00 AM
THE proposed joint venture between the Northern Blues and Cronulla Sharks has been effectively scuttled before it even set sail.
The Blues had hoped to act as a feeder club to the Sharks and, in turn, be bolstered next Newcastle Rugby League season by the inclusion of senior Cronulla players not required for NRL duty.
But Cronulla's decision on Friday to field a second-tier team in the NSW Rugby League's NSW Cup competition next year has diluted their planned partnership with the Blues.
Newcastle Rugby League general manager Steve Fleming said he had not received formal notification from the Blues about the alliance, and until he had he could not support it.
Fleming said there had been overtures from Newcastle clubs in 2007 to form similar partnerships with Manly and South Sydney "but they were knocked on the head by the board".
"It hasn't been discussed at board level yet and I've spoken to the Bay about that this morning," Fleming said yesterday.
"I applaud their initiative, but until they put a formal proposal to us, and until our board can sit and discuss it, we can't support it. The first we heard about it was what we read in the paper [The Herald] yesterday."
Blues secretary Geoff Bulmer said in The Herald on Monday: "The Newcastle Rugby League are 100 per cent behind us."
But Bulmer said yesterday that the proposal still had to be ratified by the NSWRL, Country Rugby League and Newcastle Rugby League, and conceded it might not proceed next year.
Bulmer said the Blues would notify the Newcastle board "in writing", and that a joint venture with Cronulla had the support of other Newcastle clubs and was good for the game.
"It's got to go formally through NSW Rugby League, CRL and certainly Newcastle, because we're coming across borders. All of these things have to be sat down and discussed and submitted to one another, and I don't have a problem with any of that," he said.
"I see it as a really big positive, not only for our club, but for rugby league in Newcastle."
Bulmer was confident the Blues would still be able to use some Sharks players next year despite Cronulla's decision to stay in the NSW Cup.
"The sooner we can do it, the better . . . I see a lot of positives in the whole thing. I cannot see one negative in it," he said.
"If it doesn't get up this year, it's certainly got to get up some time in the future because we need to lift the profile of this competition."
Sharks chief executive Richard Fisk said his club would honour their commitment to the Blues but fielding a NSW Cup team had changed the landscape.
Fisk said Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart was "good friends" with Blues coach and former Bulldogs teammate Robert Relf and they intended getting together to swap ideas.
"We'll still be doing something with them. To be honest, we were in a difficult situation and they put their hand up to help us and it was always on condition that we didn't enter a team in the NSW Cup," Fisk said.
"It's quite early days, because a week ago we were moving down the track of a joint venture with them, and circumstances changed very quickly. We're now in with a NSW Cup team, but we want to honour any moral obligations we have with Nelson Bay.
"I think it will work more in a coaching area."
Knights chief executive Steve Burraston said his club was not concerned about the Blues' intention to align with the Sharks.
"That's a decision for them and the Newcastle Rugby League. We don't run the Newcastle Rugby League and they need to make decisions in the best interests of their competition and their district and their junior development," Burraston said.
Most of the players from last season's squad were under the impression that there was not going to be a Sharks NSW Cup side in 2010, therefore the squad will be some what different, alot of the boys were talking about playing in the Illawarra League.
Southern Districts Rebels from the bundy cup have folded so we may gain some players from their.
I know we have lost
Anthony Killingbeck - Melbourne (massive loss, most consistent player last season)
Atelea Vea - Melbourne
Ryan Verlinden, Brad Barrett, Tim Weyman - Newtown Jets
Eddie Paea - Norths
Bronx Goodwin - Dragons
Southern Districts Rebels from the bundy cup have folded so we may gain some players from their.
I know we have lost
Anthony Killingbeck - Melbourne (massive loss, most consistent player last season)
Atelea Vea - Melbourne
Ryan Verlinden, Brad Barrett, Tim Weyman - Newtown Jets
Eddie Paea - Norths
Bronx Goodwin - Dragons