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Former South Sydney powerbroker Shane Richardson pulling strings at NRL expansion bid hopeful
Rugby League by Paul Crawley
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Subscriber only He helped lift South Sydney from rock bottom back to the pride of the league and now Shane Richardson has become the secret weapon in the Brisbane Firehawks bid to win the NRL expansion race. As anticipation builds that a new club will be given the green light to enter the national comp in 2023, The Daily Telegraph can reveal that former Rabbitohs boss Richardson has been working behind the scenes for the past four months to help his old club Easts Tigers, who are backing the bid, to put together a highly-detailed business model.
The 17th NRL team? There’s only one answer A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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Rugby League supremo Peter V’landys has been strongly supportive of NRL expansion and his preference is that the 17th NRL team be located in south-east Queensland.
The current TV rights deal runs through to the end of 2022, so the following year would presumably signal the arrival of the next expansion team and rugby league games at Suncorp Stadium every weekend throughout the 2023 season.
That time frame represents a monumental challenge for the formation of a successful entity. In January 2023 players will be returning to preseason training following a short Christmas break. Therefore, in less than two years, the 17th team needs to establish a brand from scratch, establish an administrative base, establish a training base, build a football department, build an off-field team and sell sponsorships an
Remembering those who departed in 2020 A Set the default text size A Set large text size
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2020 was both a year to remember and a year we all want to forget.
Before it’s too far gone, let’s take some time to remember some of the rugby league players who left us for good in 2020.
1. Paul Fisher
A Souths-Sunnybank junior and a very accomplished and highly regarded player in the Brisbane competition, Paul Fisher was equally at home at either halfback, hooker or fullback. He was selected in the Queensland residents team in 1992 under coach Paul Vautin.