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PNG's back.

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I remember the Cowboys pulling the existential crisis card over a high performance training centre. All clubs do it to some extent to get more funding and special privileges.
 

blue bags

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Cowboy's are entitled to be concerned
They don't need this
Cowboy's have built what they have on hard work
Blood sweat and tears
On struggle. Hard Times
Cowboy's have finally built a foundation to grow and be very successful
 
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Cowboy's are entitled to be concerned
They don't need this
Cowboy's have built what they have on hard work
Blood sweat and tears
On struggle. Hard Times
Cowboy's have finally built a foundation to grow and be very successful
I don't think the PNG team will harm the Cowboys in any way.

Businesses in FNQ will still saddle up with the Cowboys.

Fans won't ditch the Cowboys for PNG.

Cowboys received assistance from News Ltd in the 1990s. It took them about a decade to find their feet.
 

Perth Red

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If there is zero connection expected with cairns why base them there?might as well be based in brisbane where it will be easier to attract Australian players.
 

BuffaloRules

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If there is zero connection expected with cairns why base them there?might as well be based in brisbane where it will be easier to attract Australian players.

they are doing it to pis you off … even though flight times was something that concerned you previously so I thought you would be happy for them to be based as close as possible …

I got the strangest feeling that whatever decisions are made you will find something to criticise ..

Poor old Cowboys are going to complain although it’s 4 hours drive away and they never take any games to Cairns anyway…
 

MugaB

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Even funnier their were dopes on the dolphins thread trying to argue Sunshine Coast was too far from redcliffe
I had to explain this to most of the salty cowboys faithful here too, 4 hours drive!
thats insane to call that in your catchment, its damn near Wollongong to Newcastle distance, yet they would stump up, "well there isn't anyone near by" to that i say....
.......well there soon will be
 

Gobsmacked

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The actual expansion into PNG should be in the form of the Cowboys playing 1 game a year there and having the Hunters as a feeder club.
The Cowboys could sew up the territory, along with Darwin.
 

Canard

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Oh look, the ignorant Sydney and Brisbane dickheads think they know all about North Queensland and that 4 hours drive is a big deal.

Suddenly Cairns is not part of North Queensland? f**k me, Southerners.

Ironically the same complete f**kwits have no issues with a team being based 900km away from there home ground in another country
 
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BuffaloRules

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Oh look, the ignorant Sydney and Brisbane dickheads think they know all about North Queensland and that 4 hours drive is a big deal.

Suddenly Cairns is not part of North Queensland? f**k me, Southerners.

Ironically the same complete f**kwits have no issues with a team being based 900km away from there home ground in another country

Perhaps you can explain why the Cowboys don’t take any games to Cairns .. and now someone else does and they gunna spit the dummy?

One of the games played in Cairns will no doubt be against the Cowboys so the dickheads will end up getting an extra “home “ game every year
 
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BuffaloRules

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Oh look, the ignorant Sydney and Brisbane dickheads think they know all about North Queensland and that 4 hours drive is a big deal.

Suddenly Cairns is not part of North Queensland? f**k me, Southerners.

Ironically the same complete f**kwits have no issues with a team being based 900km away from there home ground in another country

Perth Red is an expert in all matters about Sydney and he is 4000 kms away ..
 

Canard

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Perhaps you can explain why the Cowboys don’t take any games to Cairns .. and now someone else does and they gunna spit the dummy?

One of the games played in Cairns will no doubt be against the Cowboys so the dickheads will no doubt end up getting an extra “home “ game every year
There is no facilities in Cairns capable of holding anything more then a one off NRL game.

NQ is essentially two cities, Cairns and Townsville. The population outside that is very small.

Townsville is centrally located in NQ and has the best stadium in regional Australia.

How many times do I have to repeat this? Are Southerns just wilfully ignorant?
 

BuffaloRules

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There is no facilities in Cairns capable of holding anything more then a one off NRL game.

NQ is essentially two cities, Cairns and Townsville. The population outside that is very small.

Townsville is centrally located in NQ and has the best stadium in regional Australia.

How many times do I have to repeat this? Are Southerns just wilfully ignorant?

but you would be happy to have an “away” game in Cairns every year right?
 
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Canard

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but you would be happy to have an “away” game in Cairns every year right?
Souths and other clubs have done it over the years, it's hardly a big novelty.

The Cowboys are the most well supported team in PNG, that would be like playing Roosters v Souths to Mudgee every year.

Unless of course as we all know, the PNG is really just a token thing, and a back-door way to get a new Australian based team funded by the government.

The Feds won't support that, NQ won't support that, and neither with PNG.

It's the worst of all worlds.
 

BuffaloRules

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Souths and other clubs have done it over the years, it's hardly a big novelty.

The Cowboys are the most well supported team in PNG, that would be like playing Roosters v Souths to Mudgee every year.

Unless of course as we all know, the PNG is really just a token thing, and a back-door way to get a new Australian based team funded by the government.

The Feds won't support that, NQ won't support that, and neither with PNG.

It's the worst of all worlds.

We have been told that the PNG supporters are so fanatical about NRL…it won’t matter who they play there … supposedly
 

BuffaloRules

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If Barlow park doesn’t get an upgrade then I’m sure it will be considered

all the chatter is png aren’t playing 12 home games in png

I’m sure regional qld will get a game or two

speculation at this time

The only thing we have heard is that they will play some games in Cairns…

I hope they play all the games in PNG
 

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