OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

[happy_tiger]

For some reason I see the corruption in PNG politics leaking into the Chiefs and them getting done for salary cap breaches in the future

 

[weststigerman]

I don’t really care that he’s gone to PNG after our game. He’s here maybe for one more game and then he’s gone.

 

[Spartan117]

This is incredibly disrespectful to the Club and us fans

He could have waited 1 Week

 

[innsaneink]

It's a fact. The loudest people on this are the same drama queen suspects in kent, hooper, vossy and corey parker

You didnt specify thos peanuts in your initial post..theyre irrelevant.

Though theres plenty of WTs fans
just feel like this is yet another kick in the guts to them.
This club never learns.

 

[jirskyr]

Ha!!!! Alas no, never seen in Sydney / Canberra. Spent 6 weeks in London and Europe over Dec- Jan. I was insufferable until I got scotch eggs from Sainsbury's. Needless to say I got my fill to last me until next visit in a year or so. Don't think I will visit in winter though next time.

Interesting side-note: scotch eggs did not originate in nor were they named for Scotland.

 

[jirskyr]

While $600m is peanuts when it comes to upgrading, building, or purchasing modern, battlefield-ready hardware and systems, what that $600m can do over that time is train and strengthen our current personnel, as well as attract new recruits, in what is a new, modern age of warfare due to drones.

Our current armed forces (land, air and sea) number just over 90,000. China’s number over 2,000,000 and growing. Look at Ukraine and how it has used technology to stave off Russia.

The Chiefs’ Club will not protect our borders, nor will it change the influence and debt that China has plunged PNG into. Sure, it’s a feel good story, but that’s all it is, a politically brokered story by the Labor government.

Edit: PNG have around 4000 active armed forces.

'Significant change to the relationship': PNG seeks $11.8b debt refinance from China

In a move experts say could give Beijing even greater influence over Australia's nearest neighbour, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape reaches out to China to help refinance its $11.8 billion national debt.

www.abc.net.au

Good luck hiring and training enough Australian soldiers with $600M, over 10 years, to counter the two million of the Chinese army.

And I'm afraid you aren't paying attention to the diplomatic news. Less than a year after the PNG bid was accepted for the NRL, PNG signed a formal military alliance with Australia on 6th October 2025. They do not have an alliance with any other nation. It just went into formal effect July this year.

The Australian Govt has veto power on the Chiefs funding - they can withdraw funding if PNG sets up security arrangement with countries outside the Pacific, without consulting Australia. NRL would also be compelled to remove the team.

The article you quoted is from 2019.

 

[TigerNeddyK]

China already in. They control most of the Industry in the Country,
So I dont understand what our Labour party is wasting $600ML for China has control.

ALBANESE YOU IDIOT.

It’s called soft power,, it’s a common tactic in cultural Imperialism, FFS leave the Albo bashing. With the newscorpse , sky news , Murdoch, abc , 9. MSM crap will ya? Can we just talk about footy here .?

 

[Buttface]

For some reason I see the corruption in PNG politics leaking into the Chiefs and them getting done for salary cap breaches in the future

Our version of getting done and the piss weak NRL version of getting done might be a far way apart?
Buying all the PNG politicians wives diamond rings would fix it.

 

[rugbygoated]

You didnt specify thos peanuts in your initial post..theyre irrelevant.

Though theres plenty of WTs fans
just feel like this is yet another kick in the guts to them.
This club never learns.

Which would make sense. Tigers fans have every right to feel emotional about the matter given it affects them. Then there's neutrals and most people I know don't have an issue with it