Not having an NRL game in Brisbane every week is handing rivals AFL and Super Rugby a free kick, according to the Brisbane Bombers expansion consortium.

Brisbane Broncos fans had just one home game at Suncorp Stadium in the first month of the premiership and will only be able to watch their team at home twice in seven weeks between rounds nine and 15.

“It will be easier to see an AFL game or a Super 15 (Rugby) match at times throughout the year than it will be to see Brisbane’s No.1 code,” said Bombers consortium chairman Craig Davison.

The Bombers are one of several consortiums bidding for an NRL expansion licence if the new ARL Commission gives the green light to more teams.

“It’s a no-brainer. You have to have a rugby league game on in Brisbane every weekend.”

Davison said the big television audience tuning in to watch the Broncos play every Friday night was irresistible proof Brisbane rugby league followers wanted more.

The ARL Commission is currently locked in negotiations with host broadcasters Channel Nine and other interested parties for a new 10-year TV rights deal tipped to bring a one billion dollar revenue windfall to the game.

Channel Nine and Fox Sports are both known to like the idea of a game being played in Brisbane every weekend to cash in on rugby league’s enormous popularity in Queensland.

As it stands, Sydney rugby league fans get more than 100 NRL games a season, while Brisbane fans get just 12 live home games to attend, the same as Townsville, Melbourne and Canberra.

Another Brisbane team would also go some way towards breaking the Broncos’ Friday night monopoly which rival clubs believe gives them an unfair advantage with seven days between games.

“Sydney have 108 games and Brisbane have 12. Fans need more games and we need another side in Brisbane,” Davison told AAP.

“This is not about the Bombers, this is about the need for another team because quite simply, 12 games in a city whose population is heading towards three million by 2030 is not enough.”

Davison said he’d received an expansion update from ARL Commission chief executive David Gallop a few weeks ago.

“Right now we’re in a holding pattern,” he said.

“We’ve got our financial model done, our bid documentation virtually complete based on any other criteria coming through from the Commission.

“We’re sitting here waiting.

“If we’re asked to submit for a new team the Bombers are ready for take off.”

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