OFFICIAL Jarome Luai - #295

[Moh]

Just makes the club look even better with the decision they made TBH. Imagine if we had a whole season of this crap next year.

Eels problem now.

 

[achilles]

Well I’m all for the Chinese.

They’ve given us Kmart, temu, shein, Chinese food. All the stuff we love!

Matter of fact, might grab a sweet and sour pork now!

Don't trust their food hygiene

 

[Telltails]

I think it's pretty clear that the success of PNG is a priority for the NRL and the Aust government and Luai is at this point the most prominent player in promoting them and no one gives a rats about how that impacts WTs. It becomes Parras problem after this week so not overly triggered by him being there.

 

[tiger05premier]

Jahrome Luai legacy = Mercenary

 

[upthetigers]

Jahrome Luai legacy = Mercenary

Money should not be your primary motivator. When you die you don't take the money with you. Be humble. Stay loyal. Always.

 

[tig_prmz]

PNG is bigger than Wests Tigers

He's basically the NRLs pin up boy there.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I really don’t get what the big deal is with him goimg back to PNG. If he was staying next year, there would be legitimate reason to be annoyed. But, with one game left, who cares. Parra are the ones who should feel annoyed. You can almost guarantee he’ll make one or two trips over the next season.

 

[mtd#2]

In the end, I don’t have a problem with a PNG side. However, I do have a problem with the tax free incentive and us footing the bill.

This tax free clause will affect a lot of teams. It’s already affected ours, with Luai jumping ship.

For context, under the Albanese government they have increased foreign aid from $4.5billion to $5.1billion per year.

Do we really think these countries would send us money if roles were reversed?

Atleast this goes to footy and not the pockets of corruption

 

[rugbygoated]

Luai.is.in.PNG playing golf with the Prime minister instead of getting scans on his ankle

Dump him now

https://archive.md/NYlhC

This whole saga has been a massive overreaction

 

[rugbygoated]

scumbag

scumbag, remember all the people defending him and supporting him, imagine doing all these things on the side when you are contracted with another club, just shows his true character.....

He has the blessing of the club

 

[innsaneink]

This whole saga has been a massive overreaction

In your opinion

 

[Demps]

The wildest part is, that since leaving Penrith, he's been nothing but ordinary.

3 to 4 good games in two years.

PNG acting like they've signed prime Inglis or something. Laughable.

 

[rugbygoated]

In your opinion

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

 

[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.

 

[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.