Commercial viability. NRL support. West Australian desire. Goodwill. The path appears to be clearing to bring back the grand old club
Photograph: North Sydney BearsPhotograph: North Sydney Bears’ll never forget the first time the Bears caused me pain. It was a wet, Autumnal day in May 1994. I was eight, Norths were first. Newcastle, and Andrew Johns, then 19, beat us at home. I trudged in the rain with my Mum, Dad, and four uncles, back to the pub – Percy’s – across Miller Street. The loss was evidently too much for me, and I began to cry.
Rugby league historian Andrew Moore once suggested that the Northern Eagles joint venture may well have established a record for being the least loved football club in sporting history. He also pointed out, that only a few years earlier, outside the one-city teams – then only Newcastle and Brisbane – in 1991 and 1994 Norths were the competition’s largest-drawing team.
For those who wish to see the Bears return to the top grade, it is hard to conceive of a comment more inviting. For two wilderness-riven decades, Bears hopefuls have been scoffed at, cast as hopeless, foolish tragics, and blind to the realities of economic rationalism in the 21st century.
Commercial viability. NRL support. West Australian desire. Unprecedented goodwill. Is it time to dream? The only comments appearing to temper matters are those from Dickson himself. “The Bears are not in agreement with anyone,” Dickson told SENZ Breakfast Radio recently. “We just want to make sure that geographically we feel we are the team of the people, and we can take that to the people where the game needs to go.
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