I'm not sure how you can just outright say, 10 months before they kick a ball that the Auckland team will have a smaller core fan base than the Nix. We are talking a city (yes spread out) with a popn 3-4x the size of greater Welly.
They haven't signed a player yet (expect some bigger names than Zawada, Ball, Kraev & Wootton), and we have no idea what marketing, fan group ideas etc they have. No idea. Again forget about the woeful Knights of a half generation ago, this is going to be whole different scale of enterprise, with open cheques signed by a Billionaire guy who doesn't deal in the mediocre. Forbes says his net worth is $1.6Billion by the way.
They haven't signed a player yet (expect some bigger names than Zawada, Ball, Kraev & Wootton), and we have no idea what marketing, fan group ideas etc they have. No idea. Again forget about the woeful Knights of a half generation ago, this is going to be whole different scale of enterprise, with open cheques signed by a Billionaire guy who doesn't deal in the mediocre. Forbes says his net worth is $1.6Billion by the way.