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The Western Bears was a proposed rugby league football club to be based in Perth, Western Australia. The bid was intended as a partnership between the Western Australian Rugby League and the North Sydney Bears for a team from Perth to rejoin an expanded National Rugby League in 2027.
In August 2024, the North Sydney Bears and a Western Australian consortium headed by Cash Converters founders the Cumins family, signed off on an agreement to lodge an application for the Western Bears to enter a team in the 2027 NRL season. The logo will be red, white and black with yellow as a nod to the Western Reds. [30] [31]
In August 2024, the North Sydney Bears and a Western Australian consortium headed by Cash Converters founders the Cumins family, signed off on an agreement to lodge an application for the Western Bears to enter a team in the 2027 NRL season. The logo will be red, white and black with yellow as a nod to the Western Reds. [10] [11]
[39] [40] By November, talks had resumed and the Western Bears were largely expected to be announced as the NRL's 18th team, entering in the 2027 season. [41] On 12 December 2024, ARLC chairman Peter V'Landy's, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister James Marape announced a team based in Papua New Guinea would enter the NRL in the ...
Perth is the only current expansion bid, the consortia chaired by Peter Cummins has been active since 2012, [89] though some see it as only possible to maintain a national supporter base if merged with that of another bid by a Sydney club, such as that of the North Sydney Bears (known as the "Western Bears" bid). [90] [88]
But as recently as April 2021 the Bears have expressed their intent on eventually returning the brand to the NRL competition. [72] In 2018 they had explored the possibility of establishing a Western Bears franchise based in Perth. [73] On 27 October 2021, the Bears revealed their intention to return to the NRL, coinciding with a new logo.
The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league clubs in Australasia.Run by the Australian Rugby League Commission, however, there has not been a league-wide Reserve Grade competition since 1988, when the former New South Wales Rugby League expanded interstate to make the first attempt at a national competition, with the NRL Reserve Grade competition being shut ...
Former North Sydney internationals Greg Florimo and David Fairleigh play a prominent role in the club's push to join the NRL. The Bears formed a new merger with a Western Australian consortium to become the Western Bears based in Perth, Western Australia competing in the National Rugby League from 2027. [4]