Central Coast Bears
The Central Coast Bears were a proposed professional rugby league club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. They were trying to be included in an expanded National Rugby League competition. The proposed team would have played 11 games in Gosford and one game against Manly at North Sydney Oval, in the annual Heritage Round. Prominent rugby league personalities who have publicly backed the club include Phil Gould, Andrew Johns and Peter Sterling while support has also come from as high up as former M.H.R. for North Sydney, Joe Hockey. History In 2006, the Central Coast were one of three bidders for the next team to be handed a NRL licence. The Gold Coast were ultimately successful in their bid, beating both the Central Coast and the Wellington Orcas. In 2012, the NRL announced it was opening up talks about expansion again but ultimately decided to close negotiations until the end of 2014. In 2018, Rugby League Commission chairman Peter Beattie declared that expansion was back on the NRL's agenda with Central Coast one of the teams mentioned. On 11 November 2018, new North Sydney CEO, David Perry, said he was aiming at seeing a North Sydney/Central