$600m for PNG to join NRL

[The '47ers]

Manager: so here's your options, $800k a year living at Bondi or $1M living in PNG.
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[Dion Johnson]

Manager: so here's your options, $800k a year living at Bondi or $1M living in PNG.
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Bondi unless the PNG gig is tax free?

 

[Eagle 1]

Manager: so here's your options, $800k a year living at Bondi or $1M living in PNG.
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A lot of the younger players wouldn't thinl twice about going to PNG for 1m a season, it would be similar to a fly in fly out mine worker tbh.

 

[double hoops]

Was talking to a mate yesterday who worked over there a couple of years back.

Reckons for a bloke compound life is pretty good in Port. Wild but good.

But some of his stories on what a Caucasian women and children would likely experience even visiting Port was ummm, let's just say alarmingly confronting.

 

[Eagle 1]

Was talking to a mate yesterday who worked over there a couple of years back.

Reckons for a bloke compound life is pretty good in Port. Wild but good.

But some of his stories on what a Caucasian women and children would likely experience even visiting Port was ummm, let's just say alarmingly confronting.

I guess we wont be doing any Manly supporters package footy tours to PNG then.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

Was talking to a mate yesterday who worked over there a couple of years back.

Reckons for a bloke compound life is pretty good in Port. Wild but good.

But some of his stories on what a Caucasian women and children would likely experience even visiting Port was ummm, let's just say alarmingly confronting.

I mentioned earlier my mate the pilot , he was single & said they ( the ex pats) had a great social life but any that were married , or who had kids , didn’t last long at all.

I really really cannot see the team being based there , they just won’t attract any players ( other than locals ) or maybe a couple of youngsters who might get double dollars for doing so.

The ONLY way they’ll do it , based in Cairns , 2 home games , with similar security to when the Kangaroos play up there.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I guess we wont be doing any Manly supporters package footy tours to PNG then.

If I was still in business I’d avoid it like the plague.

I used to do cricket tours , one trip to Pakistan taught me that lesson.

 

[Eagle 1]

If I was still in business I’d avoid it like the plague.

I used to do cricket tours , one trip to Pakistan taught me that lesson.

I guess you'd have to make sure you've got the highest travel insurance available if going to a 3rd world country like PNG.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

I guess you'd have to make sure you've got the highest travel insurance available if going to a 3rd world country like PNG.

I’ve been to PNG, parts of it isn’t too bad but POM is a ****hole.

 

[double hoops]

I guess we wont be doing any Manly supporters package footy tours to PNG then.

I'm keen. But sounds like a blokes only trip.

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

I don’t mind Port Moresby - warts and all. I was there twice in 2017, in the buildup to APEC the following year.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

My local bid is starting to make a bit more noise and get serious now

South Island Kea

Representing Te Wai Pounamu the South Island Kea have submitted a bid to be included in the expanded NRL competition.

southislandkea.com

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

My local bid is starting to make a bit more noise and get serious now

South Island Kea

Representing Te Wai Pounamu the South Island Kea have submitted a bid to be included in the expanded NRL competition.

southislandkea.com

As it should !!

 

[The '47ers]

My local bid is starting to make a bit more noise and get serious now

South Island Kea

Representing Te Wai Pounamu the South Island Kea have submitted a bid to be included in the expanded NRL competition.

southislandkea.com

Now this makes much more sense!

 

[MadMarcus]

Bondi unless the PNG gig is tax free?

You’d still be ahead in Bondi due to the cost of living benefits. People there just give away houses and cars, and they pay you to play golf.

 

[wombatgc]

Your C section comments are bang on the money. And you just know that the wrong peple will find a way to take their cut of the top.

Personally I would’ve liked to see Fiji get a go. Plenty of untapped talent. The place and people are great. But, the sticking point is the same as mentioned with the corruption. The Fijian government keep brown paper bag makers in business.

I know three blokes that have taken contracts in PNG and moved the family into the compounds. Two managed to finish their two-year contracts, by themselves. The missus and kids couldn’t stand the place, and while their marriages survived, no matter how good the money was, they both said they’d never do it again. The third bloke said the poverty over there was unbelievable. Even though the project they were working on was fenced with razor wire and plenty of security, he said it was common for him to be on the company bus and pass blokes on mopeds holding 3x3 metre pieces of plasterboard from the "secured materials yard".

I don’t really have a stand out candidate for a new license. As for the political side of things. The Chinese will continue to do what ever they like. Too big, massive amounts of money. The CCP have got a billion plus of head-nodders (wether they like it or not).

 

[Eagle 1]

Personally I would’ve liked to see Fiji get a go. Plenty of untapped talent. The place and people are great. But, the sticking point is the same as mentioned with the corruption. The Fijian government keep brown paper bag makers in business.

I know three blokes that have taken contracts in PNG and moved the family into the compounds. Two managed to finish their two-year contracts, by themselves. The missus and kids couldn’t stand the place, and while their marriages survived, no matter how good the money was, they both said they’d never do it again. The third bloke said the poverty over there was unbelievable. Even though the project they were working on was fenced with razor wire and plenty of security, he said it was common for him to be on the company bus and pass blokes on mopeds holding 3x3 metre pieces of plasterboard from the "secured materials yard".

I don’t really have a stand out candidate for a new license. As for the political side of things. The Chinese will continue to do what ever they like. Too big, massive amounts of money. The CCP have got a billion plus of head-nodders (wether they like it or not).

Well said, we pour lots of aid money into PNG every year, but just don't see any concrete improvements, bit like our first nations peoples here, money's not going to where it should be going to. You described the locals making off with stolen building materials on scooters, just seems so lawless there, good place to make the next Mad Max movie I'd say.