www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl= ... 2&bih=1015 a photo of a purpose built RL ground with modern drainage facilities so when it rains players arent at risk of drowning

www.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl= ... 2&bih=1015 a photo of a purpose built RL ground with modern drainage facilities so when it rains players arent at risk of drowning

The irony being that Norths were kicked out of the comp as they didn't meet they criteria of not having a stadium. The reason? Rain affected the completion of the stadium you've shown.

Go the Bears.

LOL when does it get finished being built?
Makes a nice ground for the Aleague (the only sport that will be played out of it!)

You have got to love PNG. It's just an awesome place.

I'm watching a documentary called 'Lost Land of the Volcano' about a team of scientists finding tons of new species in a volcanic crater in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. The lead scientist is talking to the leaders of a remote village. It's poor, it's destitute and it's children are dying of malaria as they have no money to pay for medical care or travel to a clinic. The village elders are sat there telling this tale of isolation and being cut off from the world and doctors in this remote village, yet a couple of them are sat in fully licensed current Sydney Roosters and Parramatta Eels tops.

GET THEM IN THE NRL NOW FFS!!!

All you need to do is when a bloke comes at you with a spear make sure you have a pouch of tobacco for him. I guess you need to watch TRIBE with Bruce Parry when he goes to the remote parts of PNG where Canabilism is still practised to get that ref. [size=85(Yes, I do know that wasn't in Port Moresby)
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Having said all that, I personally think it could eventually work in an idealistic way, if all the right things are put in place. Some people already have good vision, as pointed out by ECT, but I do have reservations about the place itself.

Then again, if a country as violent, dangerous, corrupt and as poor as South Africa can host a FIFA World Cup, then in a simplistic way why can't a sport start a team in a local small competition in a country that fits a similar description to SA.

lol

this thread really shouldve been locked after ECTs ost tbh that ended all argument

to all the naysers ill pose some questions :

1. would this be good for international RL?
2. will this help access more juniors for NRL teams
3. can a financially sustainable bid be achieved with PNG government backing
4. Will the NRL have the money to make it happen

thanks

funny thing is NRL games there not involving a local team het higher crowds than the local A League team which has been there for years

would a team in perth ever get more than the weagles?

lol

oh and FYI the next TV deal is looking at $1.2 billion vs $500 mill currently and the salary cap is going up to $7 million ish

well have more money than we know what to do with

Nope...it will have the same impact as Catalans being in ESL.......none.

Nope.....what it will do is just underline the over reliance on Pacific talent in the NRL.

Nope......because the PNG Government are about as reliable and trustworthy as any banana republic government.

Quite possibly.....but it won't happen. WA, BII, CC Bears, NZII will all come before this pipe dream.



You're welcome.

Massively. It would do for PNGRL what the Warriors did for NZRL.


It is the only franchise that essentially will offer a whole new player pool for the NRL.


Clearly. Government, corporate and NRL funding is all assured.



Obviously. Not that PNG even need it.

NZRL was a basket case until Mr Doyle came along. The current situation that has the Kiwis as World Cup and 4 nations holders has little to do with the Warriors.

more to do with the junior system in sydney than anything else

Bull. The Warriors opened up more NZ players to the Australian first grade competition. Without that NZ would not have the player pool they do now. PNG needs the same boost in full time pro players playing at the top level and a PNG NRL team is the ONLY way to do that. Anyone who says having a Kumuls side made up entirely of full time NRL players wouldn't improve their competitiveness at international level is either lying or a moron. Even poms realise that having more players in the NRL will help their Test side.

Really? That's a pretty arrogant statement. You're saying that the only reason the Kiwis are world champs and 4 nations champs is because the NRL let the warriors play in their comp.

In your opinion......


ah...name calling. I was warned about you......I was told if I disagree with you you'd start acting like a 5yr old....


Really.......is that more of the famous arrogant aussie culture.
PNG in the NRL is a pipe dream. No name calling, just realism.......it is a 3rd world country. It needs a lot of things and an NRL team is not one of them.

Realism? If you think the Warriors entering the ARL wasn't the most significant factor in NZ's emergence as a major competitor to Australia you have no idea. And if you think enough PNG players are going to gain the necessary professional experience any other way than having their own NRL team you have even less of an idea. Reality seems to be something you don't understand at all. And if you think that pommy fans don't think having more players in the NRL will help the England side you don't read much on this board. Your knowledge of RL is severely limited. Not surprising from a union troll. And a plastic Kiwi too. You reckon you're not into name calling but you're happy to make biggoted generalisations about not one but two countries in the same post. And then finish with an arrogant statement of your own, as if you know what the people of PNG need.

I may be slow going but......

ECT
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East Coast Tiger?

yep...the one and only....thank god

Offers nothing to the rest of the NRL (self interest governs as much here as it does in UK)
3rd world country
Not a hope of raising an income of $20mill
Will not have a talent pool big enough to put together a competitive NRL team for at least a decade
No suitable stadium and the figures suggested for building a new one won't even get them something the standard of Kograh

Apart from that its a great idea. When the NRL shows it is big and rich enough to actually have a national game then they can think about expanding to exotic climes.

People who have set up and run NRL clubs say otherwise. And they have more credibility than someone who just claims to know these things.

lol

2 Comments from match reports in the local PNG competition posted in May:





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Heres a cracking bit of news from yesterday:
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GET 'EM IN NOW!

Perhaps they should stop the Olympics in London due to violent and unrelated protests then?
Or cancel the World Cup in football due to hooliganism that is, by all accounts, 100x worse than anything RL will ever see?