"The intensity with which these clubs were followed in New York was the same as, if not more than, rugby league clubs in Sydney and they still felt like there were too many teams in a city triple the size," Perez said. The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants successfully moved to California in 1958 to become the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. "Adelaide and Perth are only going to grow and it may be time for a second Victorian team or a second New Zealand team as well." The MLB modelīaseball used the relocation of teams to expand from a competition based in the north-east of the USA, with 10 franchises moving cities between 19. "I think that what the NRL needs to do is maybe shuffle around some of the clubs," Perez said.
To gain entry into the third tier League One competition next season, as Wolfpack did in 2017, Perez proposes to relocate Hemel Stags from North London to Ottawa and he believes the NRL should encourage some of the eight Sydney-based clubs to move to Adelaide, Perth or other areas. "The best English talent now goes to Australia but I think that if the RFL continues on this path that I have set out in North America there will be a time in 10 years - especially if the NRL doesn’t spread out from Sydney - that the NRL could be a feeder competition to the Super League because we have got bigger markets." Wigan Warriors playmaker Thomas Leuluai takes on the Roosters in the World Club Challenge. "It’s a time for globalisation and the era of small town clubs or cities divided by eight clubs should probably go with it," Perez said. The ARL Commission has ordered a detailed report on expansion by the end of the year but Perez said without teams in Perth, Adelaide and other new markets the NRL would risk being outstripped by Super League, as well as the AFL.
In comparison, he said the NRL has a presence on the east coast of Australia and in New Zealand only.
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