The ARLC and Australian government are reportedly discussing a bold expansion project to base the NRL’s 18th workforce out of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea.
However, league legend Scott Sattler has raised main considerations surrounding funding for the brand new franchise.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is reportedly backing the transfer and has reportedly tabled a package deal which might see $60 million per 12 months injected in to the nation over 10 years.
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The $600 million funding reportedly received’t solely concentrate on rugby league, with funds getting used to strengthen the nation socially and economically.
But Sattler believes the way forward for the funding may are available in to query if Albanese solely serves a single time period.
“I don’t think we need to give (PNG) an 18th licence,” Sattler stated on SEN.
“We definitely don’t need Anthony Albanese sticking his nose in the trough.
“If he’s a one-term Prime Minister and the next Prime Minister comes in and doesn’t want to give money to a bid of that nature, what happens then?
“You’re left carrying the bag, I think it’s fraught with danger.”
While Sattler isn’t in favour of a brand new franchise being primarily based in PNG, he nonetheless believes NRL video games needs to be performed within the Pacific as a method of rising the game.
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“We can still keep taking games to PNG, what we need to do is inject millions of dollars into their pathway projects,” Sattler added.
“To be able to get not just (male) rugby league players but (to) build the female game up there, getting athletes out of there and turning them into NRL players.
“Not just rugby league players but athletes in all sports and canvassing them, then putting them into some sort of pathway to develop them into rugby league, the AFL has been doing it for years.
“We need to be doing it as (a sport) up in PNG and just keep taking NRL games up there.”
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