The NRL is looking to bring in a second Brisbane club, but Brad Fittler has a different suggestion.
The rugby league great has declared that the Sharks and Dragons should merge, as should the Tigers and Panthers.
Speaking on WWOSโ Freddy and the Eighth, the Blues coach believes it would help ease the financial strain of COVID-19 and create more powerhouse clubs.
โCronulla to go and join St George Illawarra, make it a really big southern Sydney team that stretches down to Wollongong,โ Fittler said.
He continued that the Tigers and Panthers could form a powerful alliance in greater western Sydney.
โI just donโt know if theyโve done what theyโre supposed to do and I feel like maybe if we had a greater west team ... it just feels like, are they at Leichhardt, or Burwood, or Concord, or out at Campbelltown?
โIโm not sure. I donโt think we pay Campbelltown area enough respect. Whether we have an outer-west team and that includes Penrith, and they take up that Penrith-Campbelltown area.
โIโm not really sure who they link with but at the moment, weโve got a bit of an identity crisis, I think, through a few of those areas.โ
Roosters and rabbits should merge. Imagine the self loathing. Dragons and sharks are barely viable as it is. One needs to die for the other to survive. Not merge. Bad idea for so many reasons.
It’s a no brainer.
Merge south’s and Roosters, Cronulla and St George, Tigers and Panthers & kick the Warriors out.