Weren't you and your mates speculating the other day that it was going to get 10s of millions of dollars in sponsors.
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My position is this. Until there is a bid I’m in no position to have an opinion on its merits. I have no idea who the ‘mates’ are by the way. I’m happy to be disliked by everybody. Try again.
In three days actually. Accuracy isn’t your strong point.
You really are an unpleasant person aren’t you? What exactly is your problem? The amount of abuse you dish out here suggests you have some serious issues.
My criticism stems from the fact that PNG is a poor 3rd world country with a long list of socioeconomic problems that would require indefinite funding.
No issue with that. I don’t think you’ve posted anything unreasonable about this issue by the way. Some others are off the planet.
I wish it wasn’t this way because PNG could be anything with a little funding and structured pathways in place but the reality on the ground tells me otherwise.
You'd think given the level of avg wage over there it wouldnt cost much to make digicell cup a FT competition, relatively speaking?
I’m sure that with your relentless subjective negativity you’d be a great asset to them. You could label everybody in favour of the proposal a ‘dick head’ and, without a shred of evidence to back your claims yell down anybody who disagrees with you. You can then go into a corner and suck your thumb..
To be fair, PNG has something crazy like 1000 different languages and tribes.. only a very young country. Sport ( in this case Rugby league) is a major unifying thing and that will help many of the problems that they face.
I dont think we need to see the bid proposal to have a reasonable opinion on the massive challenges of starting up a $35mill a year professional sports club in a developing country rife with serious crime, lacking basic amenities, plagued by corruption and political instability tbf.
Can you think of any major social, financial or health change that has occurred in a country due to a professional sports teams admission to a comp?
The only way I see a bid being rational and acceptable is if it is part of a bigger strategy to improve the living standards across the country. It needs to be more than just a footy club. Got a feeling I might be disappointed.
I think thats what most on here, and people like Olam are saying. Dont pss the money away on a load of aussies living in Cairns and fifo'ing into Port Moresby a handful of days a year, build the infrastructure and pathways in PNG then have a genuine PNG club in PNG when all of that has matured. But thats not rugba leagues way, long term strategy is over rated apparently. We should have been investing in NZ for last decade along with WA and other states, but we remain short sighted.
Not really. I still think it helps.
Well all the noise is coming out of PNG at the moment. I’d like to see Perth as the 18th club personally. Great time slot. Good for the national footprint. Massive growing economy. Solid RL tradition and money all over the place.
