18th club, whose next?

[flippikat]

it's scared of an invasion from China.

China doesn't NEED to invade anywhere.

They've perfected a combination of hard-edged diplomacy & building economic dependencies, so that they can get what they want by throwing a few levers.

 

[MugaB]

Some people cannot afford a meal at Macca's.

What makes you think an Aussie tax payer who cannot find an affordable house to live in will be happy to see their taxes go towards 15 NRL clubs in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in PNG?

Try to be objective for once. If you cannot see how it will turn people against the NRL then you're away with the fairies. It's a public relations nightmare for the game. Not everyone is a fanatic who is desperate for the NRL to get more funding from the tax payer than AwFuL.

Who's desperate? public relations hahahaha, your living in a social media bubble pal, if no one gave two shits about all the leg ups AFL got in the past, why are they gonna care about the leg ups NRL get, either way they are all happening regardless of your whinge

 

[Wb1234]

Hahah for Hobart, all you idiots voting for labour last election, should be ashamed of yourselves

Guilty

but partly because a png nrl team is a labor party policy

I didn’t mind socmo as sharks fan

Some people cannot afford a meal at Macca's.

What makes you think an Aussie tax payer who cannot find an affordable house to live in will be happy to see their taxes go towards 15 NRL clubs in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in PNG?

Try to be objective for once. If you cannot see how it will turn people against the NRL then you're away with the fairies. It's a public relations nightmare for the game. Not everyone is a fanatic who is desperate for the NRL to get more funding from the tax payer than AwFuL.

have you seen cities like san fanscico Detroit or la

and they have thrown 100 BILLION plus on Ukraine

total oz govt spending at the federal level in 2024 is projected at 734 billion

png is getting 60 million pa. It’s 0.008 percent lmao

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Where the F**k did I say I needed a lecture on submarines, or that we never needed any? I'm all for it, get as many as the states for all I care,

...your problem is that you think they won't spend more of our tax money on more OTHER things aswell, they will, and they'll keep doing it, regardless of your insignificant one vote...

Do you bother to read what's on the screen?

You asked what has been weakened in the military.

I answered your question.

The project to build twelve diesel-electric submarines by the 2030s was scrapped. Now we're getting eight nuclear submarines that won't be operational until the 2040s. We're getting less submarines a decade later than originally planned. The current six in operation were built between 1990 and 2003. Some of them will be half a century old and obsolete by the time they're decommissioned. That's if the government sticks to its plan and builds the nuclear submarines on time.

If Australia is so scared of China invading its shores then the last thing it should be doing is delaying the construction of submarines to replace its 30 year old fleet.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

China doesn't NEED to invade anywhere.

They've perfected a combination of hard-edged diplomacy & building economic dependencies, so that they can get what they want by throwing a few levers.

Which is why the PNG team is a waste of an NRL licence.

Who's desperate? public relations hahahaha, your living in a social media bubble pal, if no one gave two shits about all the leg ups AFL got in the past, why are they gonna care about the leg ups NRL get, either way they are all happening regardless of your whinge

In what universe does no one in Australia care about the money AwFuL gets from the tax payer?

The stadium thread on LU is full of people complaining about it.

Thousands of Tasmanians cared enough to protest against it in public:

Thousands of people opposed to an AFL stadium being built at Macquarie Point on Hobart's waterfront have turned out at a rally at parliament lawns

Thousands turn out for 'Stop the Stadium' rally in Hobart seeking end to AFL plan - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au

How can you say thousands of people from a rusted on fumbleball state protesting against a fumbleball stadium equates to "no one gave two shits about all the leg ups AFL got in the past"?

This is proof that you are full of shit and live in a fantasy world.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Guilty

but partly because a png nrl team is a labor party policy

I didn’t mind socmo as sharks fan

have you seen cities like san fanscico Detroit or la

and they have thrown 100 BILLION plus on Ukraine

total oz govt spending at the federal level in 2024 is projected at 734 billion

png is getting 60 million pa. It’s 0.008 percent lmao

Flippant comments like this won't make people who are feeling the pinch accept Albo's proposal.

Do you think mockery is going to make them agree with you?

They'll tell you to "get f**ked".

 

[Steel Saints]

Issue is with Perth and png entering the nrl a year apart is they are going to be fighting over linited nrl players

png has the advantage of lesser travels times on average and also no tax on salaries

ideally the two clubs entries would be more staggered than being one year apart

Ideally the timeline for expansion should be something like:

Perth Bears 2027 (18)
PNG 2030 (19)
Bris 3 / NZ 2 2033 (20)

If PNG does come in, 2028 is too early for them.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Ideally the timeline for expansion should be something like:

Perth Bears 2027 (18)
PNG 2030 (19)
Bris 3 / NZ 2 2033 (20)

If PNG does come in, 2028 is too early for them.

2050 is too early for PNG.

 

[Steel Saints]

2050 is too early for PNG.

I prefer expansion to be staggered every three to four years. Sure in some seasons you would have an odd number of teams in the comp.

However in the last couple of years, the comp is doing well with 17 teams.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

I prefer expansion to be staggered every three to four years. Sure in some seasons you would have an odd number of teams in the comp.

However in the last couple of years, the comp is doing well with 17 teams.

PNG will be a massive fail and set the NRL back many years. Courtesy of Albo and V'landys.