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Message: [QUOTE="Hamm.0, post: 2206539, member: 1852"] PNG will NEVER have a team inthe NRL. Period. Besides trying to get mining giants to constantly pour millions of dollars into it, how is it going to survive? Also, which players are going to want to base themselves (and families) out of Port Moresby? Can you spell s-a-f-e-r-o-o-m? Unless they were granted some form of clemency in regards to salary caps on players, nobody would go there. Second NZ team option; we all know that NZ is a MASSIVE Union country. However expanding a second team there doesn't mean the NRL have to compete directly with Super 14/NPC. The more League there, the more borderline-NPC players will realise the potential to earn coin playing League. Obviously, the NRL would actually have to drop $$$$ in the area and on the club, but Union or not (and of course you would stay North Island), a second team would have a better chance of surviving there then in Adelaide/Melbourne/etc. As for Perth, I think the NRL has nearly missed the boat. If the short sighted dickheads that are the ARL, hadn't of cut the Reds way bak when, the Force would more than likly not exist and all tose crowds would be attending NRL fixtures. Cracking Perth now, even though there is a decent hardcore League support base, would be incredibly hard. Whichever code; AFL/A League/NRL, spends the $$ and time on Darwin first, will haveit forever. The sheer quantity of youth that could grow with the sport is mind boggling. [/QUOTE]

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