NRL - PNG APPROVED NEW LICENCE

[Gareth67]

A hell of an amount of money for another’s country’s team , but best wishes to them .

I would much rather had seen an Australian team such as the Central Coast or a rejuvenated North Sydney - even the good old Blue Bags of Newtown enter the competition - after all the NRL is supposedly a national brand .

Nevertheless I do wish the Kumas good fortune and I hope that they are not just another novelty that wears off after a period of time .

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

A hell of an amount of money for another’s country’s team , but best wishes to them .

I would much rather had seen an Australian team such as the Central Coast or a rejuvenated North Sydney - even the good old Blue Bags of Newtown enter the competition - after all the NRL is supposedly a national brand .

Nevertheless I do wish the Kumas good fortune and I hope that they are not just another novelty that wears off after a period of time .

Yeah, I like the idea of helping the average png footy fan, but the country is very poor and sustaining an nrl side is a massive expense over the long term.

If the game ties its scheduling and ratings to a png prescence it’s pretty much putting a lot of power into the hands of its government and corporate rulers of the day.

And regrettably it’s legal system remains pretty risky and underdeveloped.

The average wage in png is $300 a week and most people earn a lot less.

Looking at the exchange rate, the travel, food and accommodation for their gallant Australian sojourns is going to cost them 250% more than for Australian based clubs. That’s on absolutely everything.

So unless they want their charge their fans the Aussie equivalent of $300 or so to watch a game, their only survival solution will be to keep bleeding the nrl and our government.

And hand on heart, we know they won’t be looking after their fans. We can’t even manage that ourselves!

Our nrl clubs are the laziest, greediest and most entitled organisations in the sporting world. Mostly run by people with mates who couldn’t get a job anywhere else.

 

[Jubilee]

Yeah, I like the idea of helping the average png footy fan, but the country is very poor and sustaining an nrl side is a massive expense over the long term.

If the game ties its scheduling and ratings to a png prescence it’s pretty much putting a lot of power into the hands of its government and corporate rulers of the day.

And regrettably it’s legal system remains pretty risky and underdeveloped.

The average wage in png is $300 a week and most people earn a lot less.

Looking at the exchange rate, the travel, food and accommodation for their gallant Australian sojourns is going to cost them 250% more than for Australian based clubs. That’s on absolutely everything.

So unless they want their charge their fans the Aussie equivalent of $300 or so to watch a game, their only survival solution will be to keep bleeding the nrl and our government.

And hand on heart, we know they won’t be looking after their fans. We can’t even manage that ourselves!

Our nrl clubs are the laziest, greediest and most entitled organisations in the sporting world. Mostly run by people with mates who couldn’t get a job anywhere else.

It's just a feeding trough, a deep one, and all of the pigs of the NRL and the civil service and academia and lawyers and the NGOs are going to be so snout-deep in it, all the public will see of them is their battling fat arses as they try to squeeze in past each other to get at that delicious taxpayer cream.

You want steal from the naive public? Step #1, announce that it's all for A GOOD CAUSE.