Signings, Suggestions & Rumours Discussion

[user118245]

They won’t struggle to get players , but because it will be a transit lounge where guys go there for 2 years to make bank , they won’t win anything , because by the time the team has gelled , half of them will move on . In sports like college football , this is ok and expected but mainly because every team in the league is suffering from the same thing most years .
Like how do they get cohesiveness against even us. Most of our squad is going around next year and probably the year after .Thats , core wise , 4-5 years . Which’s so important in modern football. It’s gonna be a real struggle until the team is mostly PNG boys.
I just hope the guys they do get , are big on communication and standards , so the PNG boys can emulate , and ultimately drive themselves .

It’ll become our super league, send players there on 1 or 2 year prove its

 

[innsaneink]

With footy player salaries the way they are, your top guys are earning 700k to 1.2 million.

If you can imagine the every dollar over 190k is being taxed at 45% plus Medicare levy surcharge, the guy on 1.2 million is saving 450k a year just in his top income bracket.

Tbh, throws a salary cap out the window if you start doing that, but if not, there is really no incentive to play in PNG unless you are already from there.

Yeah wait till 2038 when the tax free incentive ends...theyll be a qld cup level side

 

[Odessa]

🙁

The mines are the biggest leechers and dodgers.

People don't realise how many factories they closed. I saw it in 2008, each day we worked in a CRM field. factories were closing, mines were opening.
The mines employ next to no one and leave a great big environmental disaster behind when they go bankrupt. But you don't mind paying for them do you?

Adds on 2GB, well spent. They buy their ears well.

Did you ever look into the Australian government involvement in West Papua and Indonesia

 

[weststigers]

Yeah wait till 2038 when the tax free incentive ends...theyll be a qld cup level side

I didn't know about that. That will definitely remove any reason for a player to go there.

 

[innsaneink]

hoping to see a bula resign post today 🫡 , but they posted twal instead

😂

Whats happening ?

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

More just the pressure from former players on their children.

I have no doubt Sirro pushed his kids here a bit, then pushed them away.
I suspect Mavrik's dad drove him to Perth to get a different contract.


Here we see the Titans go all out, and get lucky that Marcus wasn't around to explain to his kid (and dare I say mr Campbell who is never getting a better contract offer) why they should take the offer.

Main point: it's damn hard to sign to a struggling club like ours when the former players know what teams like Melbourne can do.

side point: We have to win the families around players.

used to see curtis on the golf course, main reason he left was Jason Taylor.

 

[NT_Tiger]

For what its worth, a mate of mine, Cowboys supporter with corporate connections, said Payton has next week against the Titans or he's gone.

 

[crazycat]

It’ll become our super league, send players there on 1 or 2 year prove its

Nooo

PNG will be PNG.

Seriously people will go NZ, UK anywhere else.
They won't try there and if they do they will go home.

Why?

Hospital is a place you go to die.
The Dentist does not wash his hands. Heck most people don't, see above.
The nurse, on being told to give 10mg to see how effective the drug is... Gives 50mg because she "felt like it", you argue with her she attacks you.

Ofcourse it's the NRL, some people will take whatever shot they can get. But once people start breaking bones, running against 7ft Highlanders made of muscle and getting seriously injured they will go back home. Wounds just don't heal, it's tropical. ....

Now if the NRL sets up a proper hospital, well things may be different.
Till then, no it won't be a new NRL blood training ground.

 

[Holman Barnes #1 Fan]

For what its worth, a mate of mine, Cowboys supporter with corporate connections, said Payton has next week against the Titans or he's gone.

It's only week 2 and he's already lost the dressing room. That Doueihi try has wooden spoon vibes about it. It was soft like some of our forwards in the wooden spoon years, putting in minimal effort Steflopo Utoikaflopu style.

 

[crazycat]

used to see curtis on the golf course, main reason he left was Jason Taylor.

And people laugh at me when I say Jason Taylor would cure our HBG problems!

... In fairness I think most people would leave if we brought him back. But if anyone can get rid of HBG, it's Taylor!