Agree re the disposable income....
Ticket prices would have to be very cheap to get over 15k to the games.
Not including premium tickets (like corporate boxes), they'd probably have to be down around au$5 each or less, that's about a third of the price of the cheapest tickets you'll find at any NRL match currently, and unless the club could get an unbelievably favourable deal on rent for their stadium, which isn't impossible but isn't likely either, they'd be losing ridiculous amounts of money per-game, especially when you add in the other costs that they'd have to cover like extra security for example.
Why is it not feasable to get the mining companies to bankroll it?
Because there're very few companies that willingly take a business opportunity when they know that there's little to no hope that that business will ever be profitable, and that even if it could be profitable they'd have to sink a ridiculous amount of money into startup funds to get it to that point.
And if you are going to try to play the altruistic angle to them then there're plenty of things that they could do in PNG that would not only be better for Papuan society than bankrolling a footy team, but would be cheaper as well, like paying for upgrades to hospital wings and schools, or your average corporate charitable outreach.
I honestly think that it's more likely that you'd find a multi billionaire willing to bankroll a team in PNG, than you being able to convince many companies, of almost any kind, to bankroll it as the main investors. The only exception I can think of is companies that might want to use the team as a vehicle for marketing an community engagement, but once again there are way cheaper and more effective ways of achieving that without bankrolling a footy team.
The pnly issue i see with this aspect is PNG corruption withing the Govt but if monitored properly that would be easily taken care off.The govt has let those gold mines rape the country for decades.
The wide spread corruption is just another reason not to expand to PNG for the time being. You do not want to be entangled in something like that if you can avoid it.
It would be a very small cost to bankroll a set up in comparison to there yearly turnover.
That doesn't mean that they wouldn't rather have that money in their pockets then spent on a company owned football team that will likely never be able to support it's self.
Surely there are advertising companies that would be keen to get onboard. Of the 8 million id reckon minimum 1 million would watch each game. Thats a lot of people watching digicel or sp lager ads.....
I'd be willing to bet that if we could get a couple hundred thousand people from VIC, SA, and WA regularly tuning in, that it'd be more valuable to the NRL than getting a million from PNG.
Again, I think everybody would like to see a PNG team in the NRL but it's just not feasible at the moment, it's especially not feasible while places like Perth, Adelaide, Wellington, Christchurch, etc, don't have teams.
