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[Perth Red]

PNG Hunters Kaiviti Silktails merger?!

You’d expect they would be the reserve grade feeder clubs.

 

[Wb1234]

Itd have to be, at least. how that stacks up if a different govt gets in next is where the risk is in that sort of agreement.

it’s so batsht crazy an idea I want it to happen lol
it won’t but it’d be fun to watch if it did.

If the federal govt want to fund an nrl team for us we should bite their hands off and do it

in addition to another side which we fund ourselves

but two teams won’t be good news for your beloved afl

 

[Perth Red]

I love PNG and I love their passion for the game, but this idea sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

Of course it would but the shts and giggles to be had along the way would be worth it.
No money, no home, a weird hybrid mix of cultures, unable to retain a decent team, oh what fun we’d have.

 

[Perth Red]

If the federal govt want to fund an nrl team for us we should bite their hands off and do it

in addition to another side which we fund ourselves

but two teams won’t be good news for your beloved afl

How do you mitigate the next govt thinking it was a dumb idea and changing policy? Or does the club only continue to exist at the whim of the incumbent govt?

 

[Wb1234]

Of course it would but the shts and giggles to be had along the way would be worth it.
No money, no home, a weird hybrid mix of cultures, unable to retain a decent team, oh what fun we’d have.

Perf

 

[Wb1234]

How do you mitigate the next govt thinking it was a dumb idea and changing policy? Or does the club only continue to exist at the whim of the incumbent govt?

After 20 years they will be self sufficient

you know like the cowboys became after they were a basket case when being admitted

 

[Perth Red]

After 20 years they will be self sufficient

you know like the cowboys became after they were a basket case when being admitted

Govts change every few years, not every twenty years.

 

[Wb1234]

Govts change every few years, not every twenty years.

Have you heard of a contract

do they have those in perf

 

[Perth Red]

Have you heard of a contract

do they have those in perf

An incumbent govt can not legally commit a future govt to its policies.

only way it could guarantee future funding would be to pay it up front.

 

[Wb1234]

An incumbent govt can not legally commit a future govt to its policies.

Breach of contract

 

[Perth Red]

Breach of contract

That’s not how politics works. Legally a govt can’t sign a contract that incumbers a future govt to its policies, especially for 20 years!

 

[Wb1234]

That’s not how politics works. Legally a govt can’t sign a contract that incumbers a future govt to its policies, especially for 20 years!

Wanna bet ?

if govts cold just get out of contracts when a new govt comes in do you know what havoc that would cause

 

[Perth Red]

Wanna bet ?

if govts cold just get out of contracts when a new govt comes in do you know what havoc that would cause

It literally happens all the time at state and fed level. I’ve been on the receiving end of it in our business. Yes there’s usually a compensation involved but it’s never close to the contract value. Google roe 8 Highway, it’s an example of WA govt backflipping on a previous govt contract.

if you were correct you would have govt’s laying out public spending policy for future govt’s, and that doesn’t happen.

 

[Wb1234]

Wh

It literally happens all the time at state and fed level. I’ve been on the receiving end of it in our business. Yes there’s usually a compensation involved but it’s never close to the contract value. Google roe 8 Highway, it’s an example of WA govt backflipping on a previous govt contract.

if you were correct you would have govt’s laying out public spending policy for future govt’s, and that doesn’t happen.

Why is there compensation involved if govts can’t sign contracts and be liable for them

omg you can be dense sometimes

 

[Perth Red]

Wh

Why is there compensation involved if govts can’t sign contracts and be liable for them

omg you can be dense sometimes

Just think about it, what you are saying is that todays govt can dictate what a different party govt in ten years times policy and public spending budget is if they just signed long term contracts. It’s literally not how politics works!

Only way the funding could be guaranteed beyond the life of this govt would be to pay it up front, but govt’s don’t don’t that either. So nrl takes the risk that a govt change sees funding changed. one of the reasons I doubt it will ever happen.

 

[Wb1234]

Just think about it, what you are saying is that todays govt can dictate what a different party govt in ten years times policy and public spending budget is if they just signed long term contracts. It’s literally not how politics works!

Only way the funding could be guaranteed beyond the life of this govt would be to pay it up front, but govt’s don’t don’t that either. So nrl takes the risk that a govt change sees funding changed. one of the reasons I doubt it will ever happen

I don’t come onto this forum looking for works of fiction

 

[DIOGENES]

Section 51 xxxi of the constitution ensures the Commonwealth must deal with contracts on just terms. A future government could reverse the deal but it would cost a motza

 

[DIOGENES]

In any case V’landy has shown the future direction. NRL will be an East coast and Australasian competition.
it makes sense - expansion into an area where there is an established base and logistically easier.
Why put teams into cities that don’t want them

 

[Wb1234]

Wow I wonder if the internet is still working in Perth ?

 

[Colk]

In any case V’landy has shown the future direction. NRL will be an East coast and Australasian competition.
it makes sense - expansion into an area where there is an established base and logistically easier.
Why put teams into cities that don’t want them

To answer your question in two parts. Firstly, you don’t know if they don’t want them (that’s very highly speculative)

Secondly, because it is simply much better economically: a team in a first world country with a high level of disposable income has a much better chance to sustain a side than one in a developing country. Sorry if that hurts your feelings but it is the truth.

If the federal government wants to fund this for let’s say 50 years, or however long it takes, then cool let it rip. But to suggest it is a easier decision or that it makes more sense is a significant stretch.