to be fair Jonesy. Hasn't ECT pointed out they will build one.

I like what ECT's written, it's very positive and can make perfect sense. They have a lot of hurdles in front of them at the mo though, let's just see how it comes along.

LOL

maybe souths will have to make redfern safe or theyll be booted from the nrl as well

your postings have been incredibly amusing

please contnue

as has been mentioned the PNG government has offered top build a village to house vistiting teams and referees

its just those being critical are ignoring what is being proposed and are apparently immune to logic

When the PNG Govt can organise clean running water and childhood education to their population then I will consider them ready to take on the challenge of running an NRL club!
I'm all for working with them to get jnr RL academies improved, to get more Kumul tests via a decent stadium being built and working towards a Q'land cup team. When they can achieve those things, then in a couple of decades when they are no longer a corrupt basketcase they can be considered for an NRL license.

Does that go for the WA government and remote Aboriginal communities as well? What about deaths in custody?

An NRL team in PNG will help some of their problems. What would a Perth team do to help disadvantaged people in WA?

When WA can achieve solutions to these problems I will consider them ready to have an NRL team.

Haven't seen many countries issue travel warnings to Western Australia.......PNG on the other hand.....

What's your point? If you want to tie living standards to a sporting team (for some reason) then you should deal with the living standards in your own backyward before you start dictating to others.

Do you think the Indian or Brazilian governments have organised clean water and childhood education for their entire population? Yet they have been more than capable of organizing sporting tournaments many many times the size of the entire NRL.

Only the Olympics, soccer and cricket World Cups and Commonwealth Games. Nothing realllly big.

Saying something and doing it are very different things though.

The PNG Government gets a lot of aid from Australia and NZ and Japan, I am not sure if that building a Stadium will be seen as a good reason to pump more aid into a country that has plenty of health, education and infrastructure problems.

Why does everyone think having an NRL team will solve a countries problems and be some sort of magic wand to fix all ills?

The ability for PNG to attract Sponsors is really limited, the fact Coca-Cola is a major sponsor means nothing unless the amount of the Sponsorship is known, Coke sponsor many things but its not always big money it could be a simple as the Team gear and free soft drinks.
What would a sponsor get for the money in a country that has nothing?

Would the games that the PNG team play, draw wide interest on Australian TV or with the viewers? I don't think so, once they have been flogged regularly they would not be seen on TV again for a long time.

Hey its only my opinion but the Country has far more pressing issues than playing in the NRL at the moment.

lol can the WA government organize a stadium with drainage

Don't try and pass off opinion as fact in your argument, otherwise it looks daft.

The fact that the building of a stadium with regular attenders will boost the economy, possibly significantly for a place as poor as PNG for many years. It will give jobs to many. It will increase the number of people coming IN to the country. It will put the country more in the shop window. It will boost national moral. It could also house other sports and put them in the shop window those ways. It provides new opportunities.

It won't be a miracle cure to all of PNG's problems. But to say it would do nothing is daft. The money it would eventually would bring in would easily cover the cost of building it.

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.

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?

Can you tell me how a struggling team will generate good TV numbers?
Australian teams generate support from both teams support base, who in Oz is supporting PNG?
How do the Catalans team do both with crowds in England and TV ratings?
Its not rocket science is it?
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.



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?

You should worry more about local issues than PNG which you obviously know little about.

Struggling or not, every PNG person who can get access to a TV will be watching....