Alex
Years ago
Should NZ Breakers or Auckland Breakers?
Should New Zealand Breakers change their name to Auckland Breakers where their based at Spark Arena?
Alex
Years ago
Should New Zealand Breakers change their name to Auckland Breakers where their based at Spark Arena?
For Wellington saints team to come in, yes Auckland breakers.
Yes, since the nz team is pretty much the tall blacks, it would be good to split it and have more young kiwis and aussies ver there.
Lots of kiwis in Europe, aus and in college that are nbl calibre.
Who cares? Just like West Coast Eagles and Fremantle Dockers, one is named after the whole region and one is a city within it. NZ Breakers is fine even if a NZ city team comes in.
Noob...
It's not the west Australian eagles, it’s west coast eagles representing the perth area.
Nz breakers should definatley change name timsuckland since they are situated in Auckland as is Wellington in Wellington.
Ben Dover
Years ago
What a fkn idiot... since when was west coast all of WA.
Walbanger
Years ago
Yes, they should be rebranded Auckland, to make way for the Wellington Saints and the "South Island Main Landers" or "Mighty Moa"
koberulz
Years ago
What a fkn idiot... since when was west coast all of WA.Is Fremantle not on the coast?
Alex
Years ago
I prefer shorter names.
Auckland Breakers is shorter then "New Zealand Breakers"
Once Wellington join they have to consider it.
PyroCross
Years ago
Larry Kestelman will not give Wellington an NBL team - unless Larry goes or Wellington hastily builds a 7,000+ seat arena (good luck with that), the argument will be (as its always been) that there's not enough revenue for it. Sigh.
paul
Years ago
From what I know, Wellington have never seriously put together a bid to join the NBL.
"It's not the west Australian eagles, it's west coast eagles representing the perth area."
No, it was the West Coast Eagles representing Western Australia as their sole club, and kept that name after they were no longer the sole club.
No reason for NZ to change their name, especially as they played games in a number of NZ cities this past season.
New nbl team incoming, the Australian Roos. No one will have a problem with that?
Ben Dover
Years ago
When did I say Fremantle wasn't on the coast?? Just said that west coast isn’t all of WA like the fktard thought.
Walsh probably thought he will have the rights for the whole of nz. I can't see Wellington getting a team.
Walbanger
Years ago
"Wellington hastily builds a 7,000+ seat arena (good luck with that)"
Wellington has been crunching the numbers on a 10 000 seat Arena for years. It's being heavily pushed by Promoters and associated business. Christchurch has had an NBL standard 7200 seat arena for years in Horncastle Arena.
Christchurch and Auckland would be great, a team in the north and South Island.
I think we should have 3-4 team in nz in the long run.
Trouble,is,getting Walsh to,agree, he won't just let all of his market get split
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