No they don't. This is not the same Vipers which was the Port Moresby rep team of the 90's.
It is a relatively new franchise of the PNG Bemobile Cup competition (a competition which is the rebranded PNG SP Inter-City Cup). It is a vastly different and largely inferior organisation that has piggy-backed the original concept ... should not be confused with what was the legitimate Port Moresby Rugby League representative team.
The Coca-Cola Vipers who played in the Qld Cup were the Port Moresby rep team and they played in the QRL/ARL competition as an incentive to have Port Moresby break away from the PNGRFL which had aligned itself with Super League.
QRL bounced them on financial considerations but in short Livermore refused to provide the same subsidy for them as the QRL did for their clubs. His argument was that they paid nothing to the QRL to compete. Paid nothing? Paid all their airfares even though Sunstate was a sponsor, paid all their accommodation (and for the visiting teams who 5-starred it in Moresby) and so on. It was a lop-sided con by the QRL to get Port Moresby on side and when the "war" was over they discarded them like toilet paper.
It was no accident that PNG household names like Kera Ngaffin, Stanley Haru, Ben Bire, Phillip Boge, Joshua Kouoru, Richard Wagambie, Arnold Krewanty (Knights) and Marcus Bai (Chargers/Storm) were products of the original Vipers system.
