PNG's back.

[final say]

The moneys there

I want V'landys to negotiate directly with Biden! We could get a hundred billion trillion million

 

[Perth Red]

Seeing Perth red quoting everything pvl and abdo says is hilarious

Before he didn’t believe a word they said

he’s even saying pvl is a good negotiator now in how he’s dealing with the feds

I thought I was on ignore? lol

 

[final say]

I suggest Vlandys is playing his usual games, making it sound like they will walk away to get what they need form the Govt for it. Its certainly the first real time he has suggested it might not happen.

They most certainly will walk away in the event that the fed gov doesn't throw ridiculous money at the NRL and given the ramp up in the election cycle... you'd be mad to float free money for Rugby league and PNG in these times- political suicide.
The NRL are going to be seen making good on their commitment to PNG and when the fed don't deliver, it'll be the fed taking the blame.
Albo has backed himself into a corner... again.. what a dud.
All these false promises coming home to give him a good kick in the dick.
His done.

 

[Perth Red]

They most certainly will walk away in the event that the fed gov doesn't throw ridiculous money at the NRL and given the ramp up in the election cycle... you'd be mad to float free money for Rugby league and PNG in these times- political suicide.
The NRL are going to be seen making good on their commitment to PNG and when the fed don't deliver, it'll be the fed taking the blame.
Albo has backed himself into a corner... again.. what a dud.
All these false promises coming home to give him a good kick in the dick.
His done.

I wonder if the lack of budget announcement has spooked the NRL? Or just coincidental timing that the week the budget comes out with no mention of PNG in it that Vlandys and ABdo's tune changes and they have a D day meeting?

 

[Danish]

I’m a dyed in the wool coalition shire idiot… but if albo tells VLandys to get f**ked and refuses a single dime of funding to this ridiculous PNG pipe dream I vow to vote ALP at the next election.

 

[bad boy bubby]

‘I don’t bluff’: PVL’s expansion threat to Albo


ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys has dropped an expansion bombshell declaring the NRL will walk away from the Papua New Guinea bid if the Australian government does not meet demands over funding.
Clubs were told PNG is the preferred candidate for the 18th team at Thursday’s CEO meeting in Brisbane with the view a licence would be granted in either 2027 or 2028.
But V’landys revealed the future of the PNG bid will be determined at a decisive meeting on Friday with Minister for International Development and the Pacific Stephen Conroy, and that the NRL would walk away if a number of ‘sticking points’ could not be resolved.
It’s understood one of the sticking points is exactly how the Australian Government’s $600 million funding pledge would be spent as part of the move into PNG.
“Absolutely (we’ll walk away), if you’ve played poker with me, I don’t bluff,” V’landys said.
“If things don’t fall in place, we have to move forward and we can’t be stagnant.
“We’ve got a few negotiating points that we have not got over (the line), and if we don’t get them over unfortunately it won’t happen. It’s D-Day today, we are meeting with the government on various aspects of it and move it forward, if we can’t then we’ll look elsewhere.”

V’landys was reluctant to reveal the details on the ‘negotiation points’ on Friday morning. But it’s understood the NRL is hoping to build a compound type facility, where players and training facilities will be housed, in Port Moresby to mitigate security challenges in the volatile nation.
The NRL is also lobbying the Australian Government for tax breaks to encourage players to join the PNG team.
“They are commercially sensitive, when you get to the minister and prime minister level there is no problem, we just have to get through the sticking points that hopefully will be fixed up today. Part of what we want to do is have it based in Papua New Guinea so you need to have good facilities there, you need good accommodation and they are the things on the table at the moment,” V’landys said.
V’landys revealed mastercoach Wayne Bennett has been a major driver in convincing the NRL to base a Papua New Guinea team in Port Moresby, rather than in Queensland.
Bennett, who is set to join South Sydney from 2025 for the next three years. is also the NRL’s preferred option as the coach of a PNG side.

“He was never coaching the team, he wanted a stalking horse to get more money out of Souths,” V’landys joked.
“He’s certainly the main man for PNG, the Dolphins wouldn’t be as successful as they are if it wasn’t for Wayne Bennett. If he’s available, he would be the one we want.”
The NRL has at least four other bids on the table including two in New Zealand, Perth and Brisbane.
V’landys said attention would turn to those bids if the meeting with the government failed to find a resolution.
“It’s no done deal and there are some very good bids in Perth, Christchurch and even here in Brisbane. It’s far from a final decision,” V’landys said.
V’landys even suggested that Perth’s bid to be the 18th team could have overtaken PNG as the preferred option.
“Their (Perth) bid is looking very good and maybe PNG isn’t the one that is first,” V’landys said.
“All the bids are fantastic and it goes to show you how good the game is going at the moment. The premier of Western Australia, I’m taking an AVO out on him he calls every day asking to put the Perth team in.”
The Perth bid team is in talks with North Sydney Bears bosses about a possible joint venture.
V’landys said on Friday the outcome of the Perth bid would not be contingent on a Bears joint venture getting across the line.

 

[Foreign Legion]

Albo is an idiot... "I'm the Prime Minister" lol, he couldn't organise cheese on toast... And now he's got a PVL problem.

 

[Pippen94]

‘I don’t bluff’: PVL’s expansion threat to Albo


ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys has dropped an expansion bombshell declaring the NRL will walk away from the Papua New Guinea bid if the Australian government does not meet demands over funding.
Clubs were told PNG is the preferred candidate for the 18th team at Thursday’s CEO meeting in Brisbane with the view a licence would be granted in either 2027 or 2028.
But V’landys revealed the future of the PNG bid will be determined at a decisive meeting on Friday with Minister for International Development and the Pacific Stephen Conroy, and that the NRL would walk away if a number of ‘sticking points’ could not be resolved.
It’s understood one of the sticking points is exactly how the Australian Government’s $600 million funding pledge would be spent as part of the move into PNG.
“Absolutely (we’ll walk away), if you’ve played poker with me, I don’t bluff,” V’landys said.
“If things don’t fall in place, we have to move forward and we can’t be stagnant.
“We’ve got a few negotiating points that we have not got over (the line), and if we don’t get them over unfortunately it won’t happen. It’s D-Day today, we are meeting with the government on various aspects of it and move it forward, if we can’t then we’ll look elsewhere.”

V’landys was reluctant to reveal the details on the ‘negotiation points’ on Friday morning. But it’s understood the NRL is hoping to build a compound type facility, where players and training facilities will be housed, in Port Moresby to mitigate security challenges in the volatile nation.
The NRL is also lobbying the Australian Government for tax breaks to encourage players to join the PNG team.
“They are commercially sensitive, when you get to the minister and prime minister level there is no problem, we just have to get through the sticking points that hopefully will be fixed up today. Part of what we want to do is have it based in Papua New Guinea so you need to have good facilities there, you need good accommodation and they are the things on the table at the moment,” V’landys said.
V’landys revealed mastercoach Wayne Bennett has been a major driver in convincing the NRL to base a Papua New Guinea team in Port Moresby, rather than in Queensland.
Bennett, who is set to join South Sydney from 2025 for the next three years. is also the NRL’s preferred option as the coach of a PNG side.

“He was never coaching the team, he wanted a stalking horse to get more money out of Souths,” V’landys joked.
“He’s certainly the main man for PNG, the Dolphins wouldn’t be as successful as they are if it wasn’t for Wayne Bennett. If he’s available, he would be the one we want.”
The NRL has at least four other bids on the table including two in New Zealand, Perth and Brisbane.
V’landys said attention would turn to those bids if the meeting with the government failed to find a resolution.
“It’s no done deal and there are some very good bids in Perth, Christchurch and even here in Brisbane. It’s far from a final decision,” V’landys said.
V’landys even suggested that Perth’s bid to be the 18th team could have overtaken PNG as the preferred option.
“Their (Perth) bid is looking very good and maybe PNG isn’t the one that is first,” V’landys said.
“All the bids are fantastic and it goes to show you how good the game is going at the moment. The premier of Western Australia, I’m taking an AVO out on him he calls every day asking to put the Perth team in.”
The Perth bid team is in talks with North Sydney Bears bosses about a possible joint venture.
V’landys said on Friday the outcome of the Perth bid would not be contingent on a Bears joint venture getting across the line.

That's certainly a take

 

[skeepe]

‘I don’t bluff’: PVL’s expansion threat to Albo

But V’landys revealed the future of the PNG bid will be determined at a decisive meeting on Friday with Minister for International Development and the Pacific Stephen Conroy, and that the NRL would walk away if a number of ‘sticking points’ could not be resolved.

Pat Conroy might be a bit miffed that his job has been usurped by a Sky News talking head.

 

[mongoose]

no guaranteed funding or what its even for
a purpose built "compound" for players and wives to live LOL, probably have its own Dominos and Subway... how lovely
an 80 year old Wayne Bennett as coach

all falling into place.

 

[Perth Red]

May 17th, 2024 12:38 pm
ARLC Chairman Peter V’landys has revealed the NRL is against basing a Papua New Guinea team in Australia ahead of the league meeting with the Australian Government on Friday to discuss expansion.
PNG are the firm favourites to be given the NRL’s 18th licence, and while it’s the competition’s preference, V’landys stressed there’s still a few boxes to be ticked before the newest team is announced.
“No, not at all,” V’landys answered when asked if PNG were locked in as the next expansion team.
“We're very early in negotiations with the government. There’s still a long way to go
“It’s no done deal and there’s some very bidders from Perth, Christchurch and even here in Brisbane.
“All the bids are fantastic and it just goes to show you how good the game is going at the moment.”
PNG have long been discussed as a potential expansion team considering it’s reputation as a league-mad country.
The North Queensland town of Cairns has been raised as a potential Australian base for any future PNG team, however V’landys is steadfastly against that.
“If you want the people of Papua New Guinea to be engaged, you got to have the team in PNG,” he said in a press conference in Brisbane ahead of Magic Round.
“For me, having it in Australia, it’s not really a PNG team and we’ve got to take the game to PNG
“We’re not interested in taking the team to Northern Queensland. The Cowboys do a fantastic job in Northern Queensland and there’s no way we want to affect that area.
“For it to be successful, it needs to be based in PNG. That’s not my view, that’s Wayne Bennett’s view so I’ve just dobbed him in.
“He said if you want to make the PNG team successful, you’ve got to base it there. You learn to listen to Wayne Bennett when he says things like that.
V’landys also revealed one of the main factors behind the NRL’s push into PNG.
“Look, the whole purpose of this is to provide support for all the areas of Papua New Guinea,” he said.
“Kids don’t go to school and if you don’t go to school, you don’t get educated and that causes a poverty cycle.
“What we’re going to do is provide rugby league players to go to the schools, and what that does is actually compels kids to go to school because they want to play rugby league and see their rugby league heroes.
“If we can do that through our game and help and emerging nation, we’ll do it.
“It’s more than just an NRL team, it’s actually helping PNG break some of the poverty areas by educating the young kids, giving them an attraction to go to school and that’s what is really pushing us more than anything else.”
V’landys and the NRL will meet with the Australian Government on Friday, where a few “sticking points” will be sorted out.
If they aren’t, V’landys isn’t afraid to pull the pin on the PNG expansion plans.

“Part of what we want to do is be based in PNG which is important so you need to have good facilities there, good accommodation there and those are all the things on the table at the moment.

“There’s a few sticking points but now it’s time to take it up a rank.”
If they aren’t, V’landys isn’t afraid to pull the pin on the PNG expansion plans.
“You play poker with me, we don’t bluff. If things don’t fall in place, you have to move forward. You just can’t be stagnant.
“They’re commercially sensitive... We just have to get past some of those sticking points that hopefully will be fixed up today.
“Part of what we want to do is be based in PNG which is important so you need to have good facilities there, good accommodation there and those are all the things on the table at the moment.
“There’s a few sticking points but now it’s time to take it up a rank.”
If PNG is granted the NRL’s 18th licence, they will face some struggles in trying to sign star players and lure them away from Australia.
V’landys has an idea to try and make that process easier.
Based on security concerns, NRL players could be offered incentives via tax breaks to sign with the new franchise.
“We’re going to try and incentivise, and this is one of the points we’ll make to the government, is that possibly look at any players who go to PNG gets some sort of tax benefit to make it more attractive for players to go there,” V’landys said.
“If they got half the tax they pay in Australia, and that’s more a tactic for the players to go there because as I said, the important thing for us is having those players there to attract the kids go to school and that’s the prime objective of this thing is to help the communities in PNG.”

V’landys’ big threat over PNG expansion bid as crucial Magic Rd meeting looms

V’landys’ big threat over PNG expansion bid as crucial Magic Rd meeting looms

www.foxsports.com.au

 

[Perth Red]

Would the PNG international side be competitive in the NRL? Just thinking if it is based in PNG then the vast majority of players are going to have to be from PNG from day 1.

 

[mongoose]

Would the PNG international side be competitive in the NRL? Just thinking if it is based in PNG then the vast majority of players are going to have to be from PNG from day 1.

no, the Titans would thrash them

 

[Pippen94]

no guaranteed funding or what its even for
a purpose built "compound" for players and wives to live LOL, probably have its own Dominos and Subway... how lovely
an 80 year old Wayne Bennett as coach

all falling into place.

If funding sticks still ahead of Perth tho!

 

[Pippen94]

Albo is an idiot... "I'm the Prime Minister" lol, he couldn't organise cheese on toast... And now he's got a PVL problem.

They most certainly will walk away in the event that the fed gov doesn't throw ridiculous money at the NRL and given the ramp up in the election cycle... you'd be mad to float free money for Rugby league and PNG in these times- political suicide.
The NRL are going to be seen making good on their commitment to PNG and when the fed don't deliver, it'll be the fed taking the blame.
Albo has backed himself into a corner... again.. what a dud.
All these false promises coming home to give him a good kick in the dick.
His done.

Who let the bots out?!

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The Australian government holds all the aces in a game of poker with the NRL.

We're going to them for funding. There's a thousand ways for the government to spend that money on.

China isn't going to be dissuaded from trying to influence the Pacific by a league team and the Australian government knows that.

 

[Wb1234]

I’m a dyed in the wool coalition shire idiot… but if albo tells VLandys to get f**ked and refuses a single dime of funding to this ridiculous PNG pipe dream I vow to vote ALP at the next election.

Lmao it’s albos idea not pvl

 

[Bukowski]

The tax cuts have 2 issues. One that Aussie tax players won't stand for very rich footballers getting tax break. The other thing is that it basically gives PNG a bigger salary cap and the clubs won't stand for that.

 

[final say]

The Australian government holds all the aces in a game of poker with the NRL.

We're going to them for funding. There's a thousand ways for the government to spend that money on.

China isn't going to be dissuaded from trying to influence the Pacific by a league team and the Australian government knows that.

Somewhere along the way you got this idea that the NRL need Government funding..
Lol

 

[Wb1234]

And people said he was a bad negotiator

hopefully he demands a new stadium in Perth as part of being granted an nrl side