18th club, whose next?

[MugaB]

Murdoch didn’t even want the English rights

England was just a pawn to get the Aussie tv rights

Kindy funny that we already have a team in a 3rd world backwater town in Townsville, but suddenly going to Port Moresby is that stretch too far....
arhhhh ma kin! Yeeeehaww

 

[MugaB]

you did bring up English and the correct use of it on the internet after all.

Seen as though it’s an internet wager I’ll bet $600 million that PNG won’t be the 18th team in my opinion.

Your opinion is shithouse

 

[MugaB]

what about them?

what team?

who? What?

what you talking about now mate?

Exactly, why your opinion is shithouse

 

[MugaB]

Lots of png ex pats in cairns who will attend games

They are not there for that

 

[Titanic]

The behaviour of the grassroots population in PNG is legendary when it comes to mob rule. You can go back as far as you like in their recorded history and find it. Tribal fights, pay back and cronyism thinly disguised as the "wantok" system. The latest set of incidences are just a reincarnation of the Police/Army riots of the early 80's and the UPNG students a little later. Rugby League made little of the tear gas in Mt. Hagen during a Test although Marty Bella had a bit to say afterwards.

The B&H Vipers, the original Port Moresby Vipers winners of the inaugural SP Inter-City Cup (now Digicel) in 1990, were weekly media front page headliners known as the "Tear Gas" Vipers. Rioting followed them everywhere including the friendly seaside town of Rabaul (crowd unrest at the field), Lae (mob panic through the streets), Kundiawa (chased on to the charter flight straight off the field), Goroka (team bus set on fire and the players spent overnight sheltering in the full-alert barracks), Mt. Hagen (on-field incursions) and even at home when they played Mt. Hagen. They lost both home and away games each by 2 points against Mt. Hagen due to extreme crowd unrest but then with increased security in the final silenced the critics 35-0.

PNG is a melting pot of social issues set to a magnificent backdrop of scenic beauty, welcoming culture and rugby league fanaticism. Unfortunately, this latest series of incidents only proves one thing and that is while law & order is only paid lip-service to then nothing has changed.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

The behaviour of the grassroots population in PNG is legendary when it comes to mob rule. You can go back as far as you like in their recorded history and find it. Tribal fights, pay back and cronyism thinly disguised as the "wantok" system. The latest set of incidences are just a reincarnation of the Police/Army riots of the early 80's and the UPNG students a little later. Rugby League made little of the tear gas in Mt. Hagen during a Test although Marty Bella had a bit to say afterwards.

The B&H Vipers, the original Port Moresby Vipers winners of the inaugural SP Inter-City Cup (now Digicel) in 1990, were weekly media front page headliners known as the "Tear Gas" Vipers. Rioting followed them everywhere including the friendly seaside town of Rabaul (crowd unrest at the field), Lae (mob panic through the streets), Kundiawa (chased on to the charter flight straight off the field), Goroka (team bus set on fire and the players spent overnight sheltering in the full-alert barracks), Mt. Hagen (on-field incursions) and even at home when they played Mt. Hagen. They lost both home and away games each by 2 points against Mt. Hagen due to extreme crowd unrest but then with increased security in the final silenced the critics 35-0.

PNG is a melting pot of social issues set to a magnificent backdrop of scenic beauty, welcoming culture and rugby league fanaticism. Unfortunately, this latest series of incidents only proves one thing and that is while law & order is only paid lip-service to then nothing has changed.

It will be sad if the latest riot kills the PNG bid. Hopefully this incident paves the way for proper reform in PNG.

 

[Maximus]

What’s sad is people would use the death of people to try and win a petty argument on the internet

Every single post of yours is projection.

it’s scary thinking that people are in their 40s and 50s and this childish but here we are

Have you ever read any of your own posts?

 

[Bukowski]

Every single post of yours is projection.



Have you ever read any of your own posts?

He's big on mh370 jokes.

 

[Brian potter]

I feel sorry for the business owners who've lost their livelihoods and the 22 people who were murdered.

Has V'landys and Albo said anything about the bid since the deadly riots?

I'd imagine there will be growing concerns behind the scenes by the clubs and RLPA.you’d have

you’d have to imagine security costs would rise for teams visiting Port Moresby.

hope this doesn’t affect the hunters in the Queensland cup.

 

[Brian potter]

Vlandys should be on the phone now talking to Albo about change of direction to funding serious schools and jnr programs and funding digicell cup to go ft professional. Then link an nrl club to each digicell cup. Much better outcome for everyone.

Where any money should be going anyway. on youth teams/programs/pathways.

 

[Brian potter]

Your opinion is shithouse

My opinion is that, an opinion on a internet forum.

 

[Brian potter]

Exactly, why your opinion is shithouse

 

[Brian potter]

What’s sad is people would use the death of people to try and win a petty argument on the internet

were you looking in the mirror when you typed this?

it’s scary thinking that people are in their 40s and 50s and this childish but here we are

todays word of the day is PROJECTION.

imagine if their kids were reading what they posted here

they’d be smart enough to work out who’s projecting and who isn’t.

broncos fans had
a small sook at the dolphins entry then got used to it

a png team playing up to 6 games in cairns will have no negative impact on the cowboys

it’ll have no negative impact at all seen as though it won’t be happening now.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

you’d have to imagine security costs would rise for teams visiting Port Moresby.

hope this doesn’t affect the hunters in the Queensland cup.

I cannot help but wonder how much damage was caused when the UN bullied Australia into giving PNG independence. The country needs better infrastructure to improve people's lives.

 

[The Great Dane]

Everybody with a pair of eyeballs and a functioning brain knows that these sorts of events are a genuine risk in PNG. It's only a matter of time before similar violent events happen again, and it'd only be a matter of time before there were violence problems at games if PNG was to get an NRL side.

So why would this particular spate of corruption and riots be the thing that turns the NRL and/or Labour government off a PNG NRL side if they weren't already worried about it?

In theory the whole point of the team would be to both strengthen cultural and political ties between the two counties and to be used as a vehicle to introduce social programs into PNG. So from Labours point of view the NRL side could be a step towards addressing social issues such as these in PNG, at least that's what it'll say in the press kit.

 

[Brian potter]

I cannot help but wonder how much damage was caused when the UN bullied Australia into giving PNG independence. The country needs better infrastructure to improve people's lives.

Agreed.

a PNG NRL team is like putting the cart before the horse.

 

[The Great Dane]

Vlandys should be on the phone now talking to Albo about change of direction to funding serious schools and jnr programs and funding digicell cup to go ft professional. Then link an nrl club to each digicell cup. Much better outcome for everyone.

The problem is that those would actually be achievable goals, so it wouldn't make much of a ribbon cutter or look too impressive on the old resume. It wouldn't impress the geopolitical interest groups that his whole platform has been about trying to impress either.

I doubt that the PNG government would be too happy with that arrangement now that they've been convinced that an NRL side is a realistic possibility.

 

[Canard]

I cannot help but wonder how much damage was caused when the UN bullied Australia into giving PNG independence. The country needs better infrastructure to improve people's lives.

Australia isn't interested in fixing PNG, they just saw an opportunity to make a token gesture that they are helping the US in their proxy war against China.

Australia wants all the care with no responsibility. Furthermore, it's not like we've got some amazing track record of fixing poverty and homelessness in our own country anyway.

 

[Canard]

Also, let's not pretend that this is some "out of the blue" incident that has blindsided the NRL or Albo.

 

[MugaB]

you’d have to imagine security costs would rise for teams visiting Port Moresby.

hope this doesn’t affect the hunters in the Queensland cup.

Who?