\u2018We\u2019re well ahead\u2019: Mal Meninga delivers bullish update on Perth Bears road to the NRL<\/a><\/p>\n\u2018It\u2019s a pretty easy selling point\u2019 says\u00a0De Ceglie<\/p>\n
De Ceglie said the opportunities in Asia were significant for the Bears and expressed confidence the NRL would back any innovations that helped grow rugby league in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s so many opportunities, not just into the east coast market because it means we can play that late game, but also taking the game into Asia could be huge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re the most watched\u00a0sporting code in Australia\u00a0and we have a monopoly on it in Western Australia\u2014it\u2019s a pretty easy selling point, but we\u2019re capitalising on the growth of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
For its part the Singapore National Rugby League has welcomed the Bears\u2019 vision of bringing NRL games into Singapore.<\/p>\n
The city-state was already looking to attract major rugby league events such as the World Club Challenge and potentially matches in the proposed \u2018NRL Global Round\u2019.<\/p>\n
Singapore is a four-hour flight from Perth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They\u2019re still a year away from playing their first NRL match\u2014but the Perth Bears are already thinking far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-448866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}