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18th club, whose next?

Marlins

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So if there’s a png/pacific side that’s going to be based out of Australia, it’s gotta be Sydney.
Anywhere else and it’s way to much travel.
If this goes through it’s going to be The Bears.

10 home games out of PNG/Pacific & 2 home games at NSO. There’s 9 Sydney sides make those your away games. And yes, the side will probably be called ‘The Bears’.
Same red & black colour scheme but with a pacific twist no doubt.
 

Wb1234

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So if there’s a png/pacific side that’s going to be based out of Australia, it’s gotta be Sydney.
Anywhere else and it’s way to much travel.
If this goes through it’s going to be The Bears.

10 home games out of PNG/Pacific & 2 home games at NSO. There’s 9 Sydney sides make those your away games. And yes, the side will probably be called ‘The Bears’.
Same red & black colour scheme but with a pacific twist no doubt.
Easts tigers are way richer and it’s less travel than from Sydney

plus if they want Wayne bennett as coach he doesn’t have to move lmao
 
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So if there’s a png/pacific side that’s going to be based out of Australia, it’s gotta be Sydney.
Anywhere else and it’s way to much travel.
If this goes through it’s going to be The Bears.

10 home games out of PNG/Pacific & 2 home games at NSO. There’s 9 Sydney sides make those your away games. And yes, the side will probably be called ‘The Bears’.
Same red & black colour scheme but with a pacific twist no doubt.

Easts tigers are way richer and it’s less travel than from Sydney

plus if they want Wayne bennett as coach he doesn’t have to move lmao
You guys have deadset gone too far the rabbit hole if you think the NRL are signing off on an Easts or Norths quasi Pacific Island team.

It’s a dream and it’s not even a good one.
 

Perth Red

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what a farce

lets have a png team
no lets have a team for png and many other nations
lets have it in png
no lets have it in australia
lets have it run by PNG at least
no lets have it owned and run by an Australian club
at least we'll play all games in png?
no we need to play them in Australia and elsewhere
and so it goes on in Vlandys world lol
 

Dragonwest

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If you want a PNG/Pacifica team surely you put it in a development area. Push the cashed up WA gov. / federal gov. for a Centre of Excellence and PNG/Pacifica academy with scholarships on offer. Work on attracting good coaching talent across to work with the players.
 
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Wb1234

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what a farce

lets have a png team
no lets have a team for png and many other nations
lets have it in png
no lets have it in australia
lets have it run by PNG at least
no lets have it owned and run by an Australian club
at least we'll play all games in png?
no we need to play them in Australia and elsewhere
and so it goes on in Vlandys world lol
Stop deathriding it

even though Perth has been trumped yet again for an nrl spot it’s highly likely they will come in anyway shortly after

this bid is far stronger than Perth will ever be especially if easts tigers get tacked onto it
 

MugaB

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what a farce

lets have a png team
no lets have a team for png and many other nations
lets have it in png
no lets have it in australia
lets have it run by PNG at least
no lets have it owned and run by an Australian club
at least we'll play all games in png?
no we need to play them in Australia and elsewhere
and so it goes on in Vlandys world lol
Its not "Vlandys world" its the last 2 pages of the forum folk here, everyone has an idea to get either bears or tigers involved in a pasifika team... which defeats the purpose of that said team, you want another team in sydney... bears, you want another team in brisbane... tigers, none of them really want to go to png or anywhere else in the pacific
 

Perth Red

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If you want a PNG/Pacifica team surely you put it in a development area. Push the cashed up WA gov. / federal gov. for a Centre of Excellence and PNG/Pacifica academy with scholarships on offer. Work on attracting good coaching talent across to work with the players.
Been saying that for years! The only gap a WA club has is jnr development numbers. A WA club having a serious and long term partnership with PNGRL is a no brainer. Especially as the PNG kids who come across can get scholarship in mining trades as part of the deal and if their footy career doesnt work out at least they can go back and work in PNG at a decent level.
 

Wb1234

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Its not "Vlandys world" its the last 2 pages of the forum folk here, everyone has an idea to get either bears or tigers involved in a pasifika team... which defeats the purpose of that said team, you want another team in sydney... bears, you want another team in brisbane... tigers, none of them really want to go to png or anywhere else in the pacific
“Cairns has been mentioned, but there is not a set destination.
“We have to investigate whether a PNG team could be part of a joint venture with other entities like North Sydney Bears or the Brisbane Tigers.”
 

Perth Red

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Stop deathriding it

even though Perth has been trumped yet again for an nrl spot it’s highly likely they will come in anyway shortly after

this bid is far stronger than Perth will ever be especially if easts tigers get tacked onto it
Satire for farcical decisions is nothing new
 

Perth Red

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Its not "Vlandys world" its the last 2 pages of the forum folk here, everyone has an idea to get either bears or tigers involved in a pasifika team... which defeats the purpose of that said team, you want another team in sydney... bears, you want another team in brisbane... tigers, none of them really want to go to png or anywhere else in the pacific
TBF Vlandys seemed to edge his bets each way (pun intended) in that article. He starts with 'must be led by PNG' then goes on to mention Bears and Brisbane and Cairns and Perth as possible locations for the club lol
 

Wb1234

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Satire for farcical decisions is nothing new
Yeh I remember when I told you months ago a png nrl team would be a good idea and you bagged the crap out of it

I even told you it was federal labor policy

and here we are they beat Perth

now that’s satire
 

MugaB

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“Cairns has been mentioned, but there is not a set destination.
“We have to investigate whether a PNG team could be part of a joint venture with other entities like North Sydney Bears or the Brisbane Tigers.”
Fmd i know already i read it, its not what THEY "those clubs"want, give it a rest
 

Perth Red

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Yeh I remember when I told you months ago among nrl team would be a good idea and you bagged the crap out of it

I even told you it was federal labor policy

and here we are they beat Perth

now that’s satire
When was the announcement of who club 18 is? Must have missed it. Was it the Brisbane is ripe for another team, or the Melbourne2 is a possibility, or the Perth Bears favoritism or NZ2 is dead cert or this weeks latest PNG brain fart from the games leader? Its so hard to keep up with exactly whose favourite lol
 

MugaB

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TBF Vlandys seemed to edge his bets each way (pun intended) in that article. He starts with 'must be led by PNG' then goes on to mention Bears and Brisbane and Cairns and Perth as possible locations for the club lol
Yes never did he say they (bears/tigers) would own the license tho, he specified that png would
 

Wb1234

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When was the announcement of who club 18 is? Must have missed it. Was it the Brisbane is ripe for another team, or the Melbourne2 is a possibility, or the Perth Bears favoritism or NZ2 is dead cert or this weeks latest PNG brain fart from the games leader? Its so hard to keep up with exactly whose favourite lol
20k posts on expansion and all of them wrong

keep up the good work mate
 
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