NRL - PNG APPROVED NEW LICENCE

[justadragon]

Not sure how the other 17 clubs will react to the tax incentives to attract players to play for PNG - I assume zero tax will payable by these players?

If Fred is offered 800 k by the Broncos which is roughly 470k after tax - PNG can offer 500k plus and trump any offer when no tax is payable plus one assumes no accommodation and meals etc costs involved.

Of course players will weigh up safety and security concerns especially if they have wife/gf/children and if their partner and or children can reside in PNG - Their Partners work and Kids schooling etc.

They say they will build a compound to house players and their families

I read somewhere they could also be FIFO players similar to those that work in the mining industry for an example- not sure how that would work when training several times a week and the costs involved.

Yeah, but hang on, players dont like commuting from Sydney to the Gong, right. Oh that must just apply to the Dragons.

 

[justadragon]

Where was the outrage when the LNP/CLP sold the port of Darwin to the Chinese. They got what Tojo couldn’t destroy. Thanks you C U in the NT Liberal Country Liberal Party

They didnt sell it , it was leased out to them, now they are trying to get it back after seeing the security risk it presents.

 

[justadragon]

The final point i'll make about all this, the concept of Australia promoting a PNG RL team and giving them the funds they are considering, has absolutely nothing to do with the promotion of RL in PNG. Nothing, what we are being told and reality of the concept are worlds apart.

 

[Hound of Dracula]

Sure. Politicians say all kinds of things. Then they retire and go onto the boards of Chinese banks and live in Singapore apartments

Trusting a Politician is like believing the stripper really likes you!

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

The final point i'll make about all this, the concept of Australia promoting a PNG RL team and giving them the funds they are considering, has absolutely nothing to do with the promotion of RL in PNG. Nothing, what we are being told and reality of the concept are worlds apart.

I was thinking along those lines.

I think the amount being granted is close to our entire aid budget to them for a year.

I was thinking that $680 million could build a few big farms, help them exploit and export their natural resources, build infrastructure , medical stuff, schools and for mine, the most important thing, the basics for the people.

Half the population can’t get by and we throw a league side at them, most of the cash snapped up by Australian snout anyway instead of the impoverished png league fan.

And when the river runs dry, all they need to do is threaten us with a lease or two for a Chinese sub base or something.

Very strange decision.


Australia’s Air Force One. Apart from flying Albo and Vlandys to png, it can be used to refuel fighter jets mid flight.

 

[justadragon]

I've had 2 posts deleted, reason being unsourced and potential misinformation. I dont know how a post that I actually had experience in can be regarded as misinformation. Who is determining what these posts contain ?

 

[Matt_CBY]

Why is this topic in a St George Illawarra sub-forum?

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I've had 2 posts deleted, reason being unsourced and potential misinformation. I dont know how a post that I actually had experience in can be regarded as misinformation. Who is determining what these posts contain ?

More chance of Wests winning the comp than you upsetting me, you’re a marquee poster. Many here are.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Why is this topic in a St George Illawarra sub-forum?

Because members and guests, we seem to care the most about it I guess.

Im ok with it.

 

[Dragon David]

I've had 2 posts deleted, reason being unsourced and potential misinformation. I dont know how a post that I actually had experience in can be regarded as misinformation. Who is determining what these posts contain ?

Maybe Willow can answer you on this justa?

 

[Matt_CBY]

Because members and guests, we seem to care the most about it I guess.

I don't understand your answer.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I don't understand your answer.

Well, when the topic was on the “mainstream media” general forum, all of the interest and nuance was coming from SGI fans.

So I guess it made sense to cut the forum travelling time.

The reason as to why SGI fans have more interest in the PNG franchise than others I don’t know.

But what I do know about rugby league fans in general is that using logic to try to explain what motivates us is pointless.

We are all cursed.