Quote: Jonesy "You obviously missed the part where I said "I don't think so" that is me expressing my opinion.
You being in the North of England are obviously better informed about the NRL and PNG than I am from what you have read on the Net.'"
I love it when people use this as some kind of evidence that their opinion has more weight.
Would you tell a mechanic who doesn't drive that you know more about cars than them just because you own and drive one?
Or a child minder who has worked with kids all their lives but doesn't have any of their own that you know more about kids just because the condom broke once?
Quote: Jonesy "The fact that if a Stadium was ever built it would be done in the main by imported tradies from Oz and NZ getting paid over the odds.
HOW will it boost the economy?
You do realise PNG has few Tradesmen? The Mines import virtually all their skilled workers.
Who will the stadium bring in?
Which other Sports do PNG compete in that the Stadium will host?
What is that "Shop Window" selling exactly?'"
For someone who claims to be so smart, you are asking some simple questions.
Are the only jobs at the stadium related to the build? Are there no other jobs, like catering, cleaning, stewarding, etc? Are these all going to be flown in too? Not exactly difficult jobs.
How will it boost the economy? Well won't the club be sponsored? Receive TV money like all other clubs? See more people travel to the country? See workers who are traveling spend money in the country? Have more jobs for people who in turn will spend their money in the country?
Who will the stadium bring in? Who do you bloody think? Crocodiles?!
Who else will play? Well they play RU over there, and used to play football until recently (but this could see a return in that). There's a couple straight away.
And the "shop window" is a term used to describe showing off sportspeople and countries in a bigger stage, basically advertising them to the world so that people are aware of them and may travel to see them or look at sponsoring or bringing these players over to them.
You being from Australia, I thought you'd already have all these answers?
Quote: Jonesy "Can you tell me how a struggling team will generate good TV numbers?'"
Can you tell me why you know they'll be struggling first? Internationally, they seem to do OK with a pretty much semi-pro squad. Imagine if they were FT.
And they are still well supported when they get stuffed against the big teams.
Quote: Jonesy "Australian teams generate support from both teams support base, who in Oz is supporting PNG?'"
And yet games involving two Sydney teams still manage to pull sub-20k crowds. Good support base there!
Quote: Jonesy "How do the Catalans team do both with crowds in England and TV ratings?'"
What has that to do with anything?
Quote: Jonesy "Its not rocket science is it?'"
Thank God, because you'd be even more clueless. Even though you've been on a rocket ride at a theme park once...
Quote: Jonesy "The Cowboys and Canberra do not rate so well on TV in Oz because they have a small support base.
The Australian Prime Ministers team has received less and less publicity in the Australian media over the last decade in Australia, it barely gets a mention nowadays.
Often the players picked have become more obscure, not all but many.
There is always a question mark over the condition of the ground and the crowd control and safety.
Sure a one off game against Australia could easily be improved on week in week out against Club sides.'"
Surely the crowd argument as a reason TO have a better safer stadium?
Quote: Jonesy "
Maybe if England could get France competing and get a team based there that are not full of imports, that may be more realistic than PNG barely out of the Stone Age to be playing in the NRL.
How many French players are plying their trade in England at the top level? 2, 5 10?
How many English players are plying their trade in France? a few miles over the Channel, Less English than Australians?'"
There are more French people at English clubs than there has been since I've started watching. That's the shop window. Not that this has anything to do with PNG.
Quote: Jonesy "You should worry more about local issues than PNG which you obviously know little about.'"
France is local?! Looks like you need a map.
No doubt if I worried about that, there'd be another condescending n0b like yourself telling me my opinion doesn't matter because I'm not French!
I worry about all of RL, and don't think my locality should be an issue into what I worry about. But I'll bare all of this in mind next time you have an opinion on SL...
