Drinkwater & Napa

Quote: vastman "Are you for real, the only drama queen on this forum is you!

I'm not lumping anybody together.

Even for someone as perpetually outraged as you, you must see the huge difference between life in a small hot sunny town outside Port Moresby or a stint in Queensland and a dark winter in Wakefield, 12,000 miles from home possibly with no family or mates to help you through. This is just the practicalities of life, it's not a creed.

Have you ever got off your high horse and thought that some might not want that life, nothing to do with whatever woke nonsense you've got your knickers in a twist over. We are assuming they want a SL contract, but perhaps for the reasons given they don't, so it won't be as easy as waving cash at them.

I spent three weeks in Port Moresby in the late 2012 and unless its changed beyond all recognition, I can assure you that it's about as different a lifestyle as you can find. Under police orders I was not allowed outside the city limits at the time without an escort, but from what I saw it was even less like the UK. The UK is the worlds sixth richest nation depending on who you read, PNG is one of its poorest. If you don't think that makes a difference then frankly I give up.

Out of interest I was there by the way to install an integrated Apple Mac based studio system at the countries biggest printer - it should only have been 2 weeks but continual power outages meant I had to stay longer. I quite liked the place and the people, but I could clearly see what a poverty stricken under developed nation it was. If that's racist or derogatory or whatever then I must be the kindest one who ever lived. For me it's just how it was.

People like you are all the flipping same, you assume you have virtue on your side, when you know nothing, it's all theory and you don't care who you throw under the bus.

For a 21 year old for example, straight from PNG, the UK would be a massive culture shock, and maybe just maybe they wouldn't want to bother with it - it's not like football, they are not going to end up earning millions. It might make them rich when they return to PNG, but it won't insulate them when they are here.

Of course it's up to them and I wouldn't stop them, that's why I'm going to watch them on Monday. However I live in the real world not dogmatic one you exist in and the point I was making is that it's not as easy as just signing them. Unless they have spent a considerable amount of time in Australia many will need extra help adjusting. They will need an honest agent, a sound financial advisor, a house provided, they may even need driving lessons, who knows. Here is a fact that will blow your liberal mind, many people in PNG don't speak English SHOCK HORROR, they speak a kind of pigeon English, illiteracy is rife by the way, another massive problem I encountered whilst there. I know you don't seem to like reality, but that won't make it go away. The club will need to take that all that on board, as much for the player as the club, have you ever thought of any of that, no you haven't.

CLEARLY NOT IN EVERY CASE, but again let's try to be honest, most PNG players like most English players will not be urbane University graduates, though the PNG fullback is. They are just young working class lads starting out.

Finally South sea islander pride themselves on their close family and cultural bonds and the support network they have created in the North of England, they show it all the time and I find it incredibly impressive - so why is it OK for them to say that but not for a fat, balding old white guy to repeat it in admiration
That’s a mightily impressive rant, for the record I agree with a lot of it!