The Rumours Thread

[Jubilee]

Are you saying the PNG team will be based in Cairns for all their home games?
If so does that mean the team is based there for the year including training?

You should be addressing Como Connection. All I know is that their Centre of Excellence will be in Alice Springs.

 

[Jubilee]

Are you saying the PNG team will be based in Cairns for all their home games?
If so does that mean the team is based there for the year including training?

More seriously. Cairns was at one time the proposed base, but Vlandys says it will be Port Moresby. And while you may think the Gong is no recruitment magnet, Port Morseby...

But no worries, they are going to build a "compound" for players and their families to live in.

That isn't ominous at all.

NRL expansion: Papua New Guinea to become 19th team with historic in-principle agreement

Papua New Guinea is set to make history by entering the NRL competition in a $600 million expansion coup for rugby league.

www.postcourier.com.pg

 

[Jubilee]

I am still trying to nut all of this out. Let me see if I have this straight.

1. We are putting $600m into an NRL team in PNG to stop the Chinese.
2. The Chinese are a leading industrial power off the back of cheap hydrocarbons (coal) from (among others) Australia
3. We have closed our own cheap coal-fired power generation bcs of global warming but this just makes more coal available more cheaply to China who are building massive coal generation capacity
4. So to block the geopolitical aspirations of the China to whom we sell our coal so that we can earn the $600m we are spending to oppose China we are launching an NRL team that will have a massive carbon footprint just as we get into hyperdrive towards Net Zero, which is a recently legislated principle of the country's forward energy policy designed by the same people who are opposing China with a new NRL team.

Is this correct?

I am going to my room. Where did I put my straight jacket?

 

[jak]

I am still trying to nut all of this out. Let me see if I have this straight.

1. We are putting $600m into an NRL team in PNG to stop the Chinese.
2. The Chinese are a leading industrial power off the back of cheap hydrocarbons (coal) from (among others) Australia
3. We have closed our own cheap coal-fired power generation bcs of global warming but this just makes more coal available more cheaply to China who are building massive coal generation capacity
4. So to block the geopolitical aspirations of the China to whom we sell our coal so that we can earn the $600m we are spending to oppose China we are launching an NRL team that will have a massive carbon footprint just as we get into hyperdrive towards Net Zero, which is a recently legislated principle of the country's forward energy policy designed by the same people who are opposing China with a new NRL team.

Is this correct?

I am going to my room. Where did I put my straight jacket?

sport and politics, who would have guessed

 

[Trifili13]

Yep, because 60m a year for 10 years to have your own NRL team is going to keep China away if they come in and say to PNG, we are going to build you new roads, schools and hospitals - PNG will say no, we have an NRL club and don't need what you are offering us.

The funny thing would be if a Chinese company ends up building the players village or a new stadium.

 

[justadragon]

Memo to PVL - a team in PNG will be a disaster and devalue the game.
Alternative - get 300M from Canberra and fund every team playing a home game in the Pacific every 3 years. That's 6 games a year - maybe 2 in PNG, 2 in Fiji, 1 in Samoa & 1 in Tonga each year.

Sounds good but it wont meet our political needs.