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V’landys won’t die wondering. If he pulls this off there’d be some big coattails the SL could ride on if they have the nous.

impressive! https://www.facebook.com/100063643385360/posts/pfbid02kSqZV7ivjrq41ArLbdZfWjF77Jz4RAp4ixGHhQcnYVxuPRDwdVwf2BCK4QjNQwT6l/?mibextid=adzO7l

Someone got AI to commentate a sports scene.. it was added after the event but it does make me wonder if live AI sports commentary could be possible 10 to 20 years from now. https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/s/S0kuaWQ8SI

What a fantastic result for NZ. Well done to them.

Badminton? Is it that popular in the UK?

Hopefully you’re in an area that has a good range of rice. Everything changes once you discover quality rice. I can put my slow cooker and new rice cooker on before I head out to work and I get home to a perfect meal. The rice cooker can cook the rice and keep it warm for 24 hours. My other recent purchase is reusable silicon liners for my bamboo steamers. It’s made steaming dumplings so much easier and cleaner. It’s also good for steaming things like mushrooms and bok choy.

A fancy rice cooker that’d be right at home in east Asia. It’s phenomenal! I have rice dishes 3 to 4 times a week for my evening meal so it’s already very useful. I buy a decent brand of Thai rice and it cooks it perfectly. A couple of Fighting Fantasy books when I was feeling nostalgic about my childhood.

It’s a rubbish stadium for rugby league. Cricket fields have no regular place in top level rugby league.

The Raiders took millions from Huawei and it wasn’t an issue at all.

If the direct handout for a PNG NRL team stops, the Australian government will probably continue with its regular $500 million annual aid budget to PNG and ensure $20 million of it goes to a project the PNG government has for some reason stopped funding themselves to pay for an NRL team. All politicians of note in Australia across the political spectrum would realise how insignificant the investment is for such a potentially significant return on investment. So I would be surprised if it’s culled after a few years. I suspect only wholesale corruption on the PNG side would threaten it. I also suspect money will come with conditions such as capacity building to develop their own income streams eventually… which is not unusual when it comes to aid.

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Penrith has around 8500 players across 580 teams. (Source: https://panthersjuniors.com/home-2 )

Australia gives around $400 to $500 million a year already.

Almost… 48.8% of Tasmanians are functionally illiterate. It’s absolutely appalling.

The NRL probably smells money and opportunity. The Canberra Raiders got millions from China via Huawei. After a few years they realised their PR campaign wasn’t working and the money stopped.

Interesting Australia/PNG fact that even most Australians don’t know. The closest populated Australian island to PNG is just 3.7km (2.3 miles) from the PNG mainland. Saibai Island.

If it goes ahead, you’d be hard pressed to find a soft power move with the same return on investment anywhere else.

China would be annoyed. It’s a very affordable way to counter their increasing influence just to the north. It locks PNG very securely into Australian cultural influence. Any support from the Australian federal government would also be a small fraction of the total foreign aid we already give to PNG. Once PNG gets pathways and development to an elite level, they’ll be pumping in large numbers of players into the NRL annually.

Are you suggesting they be based outside of PNG and fly in for home matches? That’d cost a lot to fly to both home and away matches. With appropriate arrangements in place it could be based in PNG. There’d also be large numbers of good players around the RL world who’d absolutely love to play NRL regardless of what team they were in. Even some established players would love the adventure.

Good stuff although I’ll only believe it once it happens. Local matches will be pumping!

Excellent, I can now follow Super League like a fan. It’s been extremely difficult to do with such limited TV exposure. A lot more product for the rugby league channel on kayo sports too. They now also have a complete product for overseas broadcasters.

I’ll believe it when it’s actually happening.

Melbourne Storm partnered with a university to establish a netball team, the Sunshine Coast Lightning (plays in national league). The Storm are now sole owners. The Gold Coast Titans also have a netball team that plays in the QLD state league.

Rugby union in Australia has been going backwards significantly. A 2006 news article states that Brisbane and Sydney lost 800 tennis courts in 8 years ( https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-06-26/loss-of-courts-crippling-australian-tennis/1787038 ). It is no doubt even worse now. Sydney alone has lost around 160 squash centres (https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/where-have-all-the-squash-courts-gone-lost-to-developers-every-one-20220816-p5ba89.html ). Vigoro was a well known sport in Sydney schools around 60 years ago. Now there’s only a few teams in NSW. There are other activities I remember being huge that are now on the periphery. Millions of Australians have no idea how popular these sports were back in the day. The older you are the more likely you’ve seen sports fade away and new sports take their place. Sports can, and do fade away, for a whole range of reasons.

I’d never heard about this tree before.. looks like a very scenic spot that would attract people and boost the local economy. I hope they can work out how to keep the people coming.