PNG's back.

[Perth Red]

God please no f**king pacifika bs. Please! Don't basket a whole bunch of different nations in the sam basket
You know like Aboriginals... in the 1 basket.. they speak different languages ffs!
It couldn't be more racist if you tried of course everyone's too dumb to realise.

Didn’t you know they’re all the same? Lol
why wouldn’t someone from png and Samoa identify with a team called pacifika? It makes total sense and is surely going to stop the Chinese from invading Aus.

 

[macca_saint]

Could effectively get a bastardised nz2 with aus govt paying for it that way.

Would kiwis support a nomadic Pasifika Bears outfit playing in 6 different home grounds and being run from North Sydney?

 

[Wb1234]

Didn’t you know they’re all the same? Lol
why wouldn’t someone from png and Samoa identify with a team called pacifika? It makes total sense and is surely going to stop the Chinese from invading Aus.

You deathriding the new expansion favourite is hilarious

 

[Pippen94]

What a great idea. Sounds like Moore is waking up to the fact that they have no leverage.

..& Perth begging to work with bears. What does that say about them?!

 

[Pippen94]

good job we’ve got one hey?
But with fans, corporates and massive pirate patch merch sales he’ll be making money, not spending it.

OK titans 2.0.
Wait, Perth reds 2.0

 

[Perth Red]

You deathriding the new expansion favourite is hilarious

You thinking it’s actually a real option is even funnier

 

[Wb1234]

OK titans 2.0.
Wait, Perth reds 2.0

Hahahahhaaha

 

[Pippen94]

You deathriding the new expansion favourite is hilarious

This is what he does. Horrible person

 

[Perth Red]

OK titans 2.0.
Wait, Perth reds 2.0

Think south Sydney, brisbane broncos and melbourne Storm.

 

[Wb1234]

You thinking it’s actually a real option is even funnier

So if you don’t think it’s a real chance why do you keep posting about it

you don’t see the federal govt wanting to put in ten cents into a Perth nrl team do you but they might fund a Tasmanian afl team

 

[Wb1234]

Think south Sydney, brisbane broncos and melbourne Storm.

Hahahhahahaahahaha

 

[Gobsmacked]

You’re not wrong

but if it means govt funding and making a png team viable idc

plus nrl games in Tonga and samoa is amazing

It would be.. but instead of playing all our games in 1 spot for " magic round"
" magic round " would be a round where we touch as many places as possible! A game in Samoa, Tonga,Fiji, south Island NZ , perth,NT , PNG, Tasmania.
That's a magic round.

 

[Perth Red]

Out of pistol Pete’s “ideas” it’s hard to know if pacifika 2025 or college football players was the more ludicrous, it’s been a fun week though lol

 

[Pippen94]

Think south Sydney, brisbane broncos and melbourne Storm.

Which one of them needed bears to get into league?!

 

[Bukowski]

Would kiwis support a nomadic Pasifika Bears outfit playing in 6 different home grounds and being run from North Sydney?

As long as it the bears mate, fans all over the world are ready to get on board with such a strong brand.

 

[Perth Red]

So if you don’t think it’s a real chance why do you keep posting about it

you don’t see the federal govt wanting to put in ten cents into a Perth nrl team do you but they might fund a Tasmanian afl team

Because it’s hillarious. Moments like these in expansion debates don’t come around very often

 

[macca_saint]

It would be.. but instead of playing all our games in 1 spot for " magic round"
" magic round " would be a round where we touch as many places as possible! A game in Samoa, Tonga,Fiji, south Island NZ , perth,NT , PNG, Tasmania.
That's a magic round.

I like this idea. Although the logistics would be difficult lol

 

[Wb1234]

Out of pistol Pete’s “ideas” it’s hard to know if pacifika 2025 or college football players was the more ludicrous, it’s been a fun week though lol

Png isn’t his idea

he was supporting Perth

albo is the one convincing him

 

[Perth Red]

Which one of them needed bears to get into league?!

Well ironically melbourne needed perth lol

 

[The Great Dane]

Moore: "Bears want back in" - ABC listen

The NRL has a grand plan to expand to 20-teams by 2030 and the North Sydney Bears are keen to be part of it. After 24-years in hibernation. North Sydney Bear's board member and Grandstand Rugby League commentator Billy Moore says his organisation is happy to work with a Pasifika team, a New...

www.abc.net.au

Do you need me to highlight the relevant bits too or can you manage it yourself

Nothing in that interview even comes close to contradicting what I've said. In fact it confirms most what I've said, and confirms a lot of my suspicions and fears for a Bears lead NRL side.

'We've got very few non-negotiables. We want our colours back, our badge, minimum 2 games at NSO, and we will fund the rest.'

'We'll go wherever the NRL wants us to to allow us to do what we want to do'

'Our colours, our badge, our history, and two games at NSO, which will be a financial bonanza for the game so we'll probably end up having more'

He's not saying that the Bears will give up their brand or agree to be a minority partner in a club, he's saying that so long as those non-negotiables, and the others he didn't mention but are out there, are met that the Bears are willing to base the team wherever the NRL likes to get back into the NRL. In other words, they'd still own and control the club, but the NRL would be free to dictate where it's based.

He didn't even mentioned or consider the possibility of partners or a merger, it was all about what 'we' (the Bears) would do.

BTW, it's at least 2 games at NSO this time, and he openly admitted that they have ambitions to play more than that at NSO in the future. Even mentioned that he'd like to play a game out of the CC in the future lol. That's a really bad mask slip from him, he must have got too caught up in the excitement of the game.

Where are these PVL 'quotes' BTW. They'll be gold if they're even half as self incriminating as that interview was lol.