🏈 NRL Fans Rejoice As North Sydney Bears To Become The Perth Bears

The North Sydney Bears will become the Perth Bears and ascend to the NRL from 2027 under a long-awaited deal.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
But the North Sydney Bears are coming back into the
competition in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
How long have they been out?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
They've been out for twenty seven years. I remember when
they left.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah, that was sad.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yes, I used to be a frequent is that the
word of the North Sydney Leagues Club and had that
big bear in the foyer. I think I dated him
for a while. But I think that may have been
where the announcement was made.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's where the announcement and didn't everyone go crazy?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
We can announce that.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
The Perth Bears kind of buried the lead there with
the Perth Bears.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
So this is the North Sydney Bears are back in
the camp.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yes, but now they're a Perth team.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yes, but Perth is north of Sydney.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
No it's not.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, it is north. Perth is north if geographically I
don't think it is. Perth is further north than Sydney,
is it? Yea yeah, so it's northwest.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's a little bit west.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But when you look, you look at what we're doing now,
North Sydney is north of Sydney.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
But tell me this as the die hard fans, are
they excited that North Sydney's back and that doesn't matter
whether the team is based in Western Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
This is what they said. You've waited since the fifteenth
of October nineteen ninety nine for this, over nine thousand days.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'm so happy. I know, I know it's only football,
but this is part of our culture, part of our spirit.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
And that's what the game is about. When you think
about it, when we're in COVID that crazy pandemic and
all our sides had to go out and play up
in Brisbane and.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Stuff with fake, fake cheering and fake crowds.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It didn't as long as your team's still in there.
I think the game has become global.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes, it's no longer that you go down to your
local oval and what's your team?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Is that? And I know it's fair enough to say,
you know, my team, the Sharks are still playing at
Shark Park. But I would rather than playing in Perth
than not at all. And I get it, I get
what those people.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
West Australian players.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, no, well there's grassroots. You got Western Australias AFL Central.
It's there's a place where kids could play.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
And so at the moment, remember when there were sixteen teams.
That's when South got back in sixteen. Then they've added
the Dolphins. Now they've added the Bears, and I think
the year after Guineas in.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, and that'll be an interesting sight as well.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, that'll be a good team.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Because guess what the population of pap New Guinea is.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, now you get a guess eight million?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Are you joking?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Are you joking?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
What would you think? I was going to say, it's
only two million.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Eyeballs on TV.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Also not just that for all the betting and all
of that stuff. But this is diplomacy at work. If
you want to keep the piece in this region, put
an NRL team in. This is absolute diplomacy at work.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Let's bring back the New Town Jets, mate, the Blue Bags,
Come on, it's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Where would we put them? Adelaide from space with Katie Perry?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Remember the Adelaide Rams.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
What was that in our old team back in.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
The days of Super League not very long.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, this is exciting news. It is