NRL 2025
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Who are the Papua New Guinea players who could be targeted by NRL’s newest club?
Papua New Guinea will have a team in the NRL with expansion finally confirmed. So, which PNG players will the new franchise be likely to target?
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@bayimports said in NRL 2025:
And PNG in... in 2028
it'll be like going to Fiji to play the Drua. Very tough to win up there I suspect.
Good move by the NRL - this has the potential to grow the game
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If the Warriors have difficulty holding on to marquee players, PNG are going to have a revolving door and be paying massive overs. Being a young bloke stuck in a gated compound most of your time isn't going to be appealing long term.
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@antipodean said in NRL 2025:
If the Warriors have difficulty holding on to marquee players, PNG are going to have a revolving door and be paying massive overs. Being a young bloke stuck in a gated compound most of your time isn't going to be appealing long term.
yep, could be a few players who will maybe leave their families at home and live away from home for a season or two I guess, but going to be real tough finding long term players, might make NZ look good!
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@antipodean said in NRL 2025:
If the Warriors have difficulty holding on to marquee players, PNG are going to have a revolving door and be paying massive overs. Being a young bloke stuck in a gated compound most of your time isn't going to be appealing long term.
Probably make more sense to base them somewhere in Australia
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@bayimports said in NRL 2025:
And PNG in... in 2028
it'll be like going to Fiji to play the Drua. Very tough to win up there I suspect.
Good move by the NRL - this has the potential to grow the game
Agreed......and most of the players will be local based. It'll go great, like the Drua have in Super Rugby with all their local based players.
I suspect Wayne Bennett will take the team too as he has expressed a desire to coach the 18th team and his contract with Souths ends in 2027.
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There is a lot of money going to PNG. I did wonder why. Then I saw this
Australia has negotiated an agreement under which PNG will not sign new security agreements with China. This ensures that Australia won’t be blindsided, as it was by the Solomon Islands-China security agreement in 2022.
Game-planning national security and the PNG NRL team | The Strategist
Papua New Guinea’s entrance into the National Rugby League (NRL) is officially confirmed. Already, sports writers are excitedly pulling out their whiteboards to draw up potential rosters for the team’s inaugural season in 2028. But ...
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@antipodean said in NRL 2025:
Being a young bloke stuck in a gated compound most of your time isn't going to be appealing long term.
It is very tempting to say something about the ability of NRL players to make headlines getting caught doing dodgy things and being stationed up there in that situation would seem to be an ideal opportunity to partake in them - but I won't!!!!!!
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Ezra Mam gets 9 week NRL ban for driving unlicensed, on cacaine, crashing and giving a 4 year old girl a broken hip as a result.
Rugba League…….
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@Yeahtheboys said in NRL 2025:
Ezra Mam gets 9 week NRL ban for driving unlicensed, on cacaine, crashing and giving a 4 year old girl a broken hip as a result.
Rugba League…….
Actually 9 weeks is pretty good for the NRL, the most disappointing thing was the outcome from the justice system not the NRL
PNG team to join NRL in $600m agreement as V’landys confirms huge player incentive
