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    Papua New Guinea takes first step towards an NRL team with Queensland Cup entrant

    A PAPUA New Guinea team is set to join the Intrust Super Cup as a bold step in the rugby league-mad nation’s pursuit of an NRL franchise.

    Security concerns for travelling teams remain a stumbling block for the entry of the ISC’s 13th club, especially in the wake of last week’s deadly attack on the Black Cat trail.

    It is understood the PNG government will cover costs for private security teams to accompany Queensland-based players into Port Morseby, the club’s home.

    A handful of ISC clubs are not in favour of PNG gaining admission, with Norths chief executive Mark Murray wanting financial stability for the established clubs to come first.

    ISC general manager Jamie O’Connor said in-principle agreement had been given to the PNG group, headed by veteran league administration Brad Tassell, for a start next year.

    "They have applied for entry and been given conditional support by the board, subject to some clauses that need to be agreed to,” O’Connor said.

    "We are working through those conditions at the moment. Security is a major issue, as are details of travel and medical care.

    "We are hoping to have things locked away by grand final week but nothing is in stone.

    "One of the conditions is that this does not cost us, because quite simply we cannot afford to expand right now. PNG will pay their own way.

    "There is a great opportunity over there to expand our brand through broadcasting in PNG."

    The PNG team could even play curtainraisers to NRL matches, with the ARL Commission considering a dramatic revamp of the code’s second tier and relegating the under-20s competition to midweek.

    The team, whose home ground will be Port Morseby’s Lloyd Robson Oval, will be able to recruit players from Australia but it is expected to be largely made up of local players.

    Maroons coach and PNG Kumuls assistant Mal Meninga is a supporter of the club’s entry to the ISC.

    "Having a PNG team playing in the ISC would just do wonders for the programs that they have in place up there," Meninga wrote in his Sunday Mail column earlier this year.

    "It creates another pathway. They can play footy, earn money, and get recognised and go on to bigger and better things."

    The Port Morseby Vipers played in the Queensland Cup in 1996 and 1997, but pulled out due to financial issues.

    Murray said his club was not against the PNG team, but ensuring current clubs stayed afloat should be the priority.

    "The club group want stability around the competition and the current clubs before any expansion takes place,” he said.

    "We want to make sure the current clubs are looked after before we look at a PNG team. We aren’t against PNG at all, but our first priority is to stabilise the clubs and ensure their sustainability.”

    The ISC will expand to 14 teams in 2015, with a Townsville Brothers team set to be included.

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    PNG admistrators are hoping the inclusion will give their players valuable exposure and hopefully lead to careers in the NRL

    Presenter: Geraldine Coutts

    Speaker: Brad Tassell, chief executive of the PNG NRL Foundation


    TASSELL: We've had to jump over quite a few hurdles and run through a few hoops, but we're very close now. We expect that hopefully that we'll be in line to make an announcement, official announcement about it within two weeks time.

    COUTTS: Now some of those hurdles, of course, have been money and sponsorship, branding, team colours, all those sorts of things. So how much of that's finalised now?

    TASSELL: A lot of that is actually finalised. I mean we've been working on this for two years now and the team will actually fall under the banner of the PNGRFSL, which is the governing body of rugby league in the country. So it's been two years of planning, it's been two years of sourcing funding and sponsorship and we've come up with the preliminary names and colours and the structure of the football operations, and how the players go into train, the whole triple operation structure and administration structure. So we're pretty ready to go once the button is pressed.

    COUTTS: How likely are you to retain the PNG players in this actual team and not wind up as the feeder to the rest of the NRL Competition and do some scalping of these players?

    TASSELL: Well, we've actually, one of the main reasons for it is we'd actually like to see players get picked up by NRL Clubs. We'd like to see more PNG players playing in the NRL, which obviously improves our potential international performances on the international scene. I think if you've seen recent games between Samoa and Tonga, it's made up of entirely NRL-based players for those teams and I think if you look at the World Cup squads, particularly for Fiji and Samoa, it's made up of all NRL players. So the formation of this team gives us an opportunity for locally-based players to show what they've got on a big stage and that's very important to us, very important for the nation, very important for those guys who are playing rugby league in PNG.

    COUTTS: Are there enough players if you keep losing them to the NRL competition, are there enough players in PNG to keep the team on the pitch once the Queensland Cup gets underway?

    TASSELL: Oh yeah, there's literally thousands of players out there that, a lot that we do know of, some that we haven't even seen, which have the potential to play at Kumul or NRL level, yeah. It's a rugby league-mad country, it's a sleeping giant of rugby league in the world and through this program, it's given an opportunity for these players to be able to show their wares and show the talent that they do have and I think people will be pretty surprised. It's likely to be a continuous production line of rugby league talent into the Australian competitions in the future.

    COUTTS; How does the Queensland Cup work?

    TASSELL: Ah well the Queensland Cup - I think it's a 24-round season, so it's 12 home games, 12 away games. We play right across the State, obviously teams based in Brisbane. There's Rockhampton, there's also the Sunshine Coast, there's Cairns, there's Mackay as well. So it will be a full home and away season for us, which is great, because we get the players used to travel and also get the players in front of talent scouts every second week in Australia as well.

    And look, players will be drawn from right across the country. We recently had implemented a zone, a national championship for players who play outside of the NRL Digicel Cup national competition and we've scouted about four to six players from that championships to also take part in a Queensland Cup camp in November, plus Digicel players and current players who are playing for the Kumuls.

    COUTTS: If this does actually eventuate and PNG gets a team into the NRL, the Queensland Cup. Where will they be based and will they get home games?

    TASSELL: Ah yes, well that was one of the criteria that we had to work with the QRL. At the moment, the main venue, the Lloyd Robson Oval will be basically on ice come October and a brand new stadium will be built there in time for 2015. So for the first year, in 2014, we're looking at an option of either playing home games in Australia - so, say for instance, based in Cairns or the alternative venue is in Rabaul, in Kalabond Stadium, which is a venue that has been approved as a suitable playing venue by the QRL and also by the NRL, because the PM 13 game is being played there on the 29th of September. So we've got a couple of options there. Our preferred option would be to play all of our home games in year one in Rabaul, but it maybe a mixture of home games in Rabaul and Cairns as well.

    COUTTS: All right, Brad. Now just once again, when will this be rubber stamped and finally get this up and running for PNG?

    TASSELL: Ah, we're just working on a couple of final things with the Queensland Rugby League and as I said it's a fairly long process and it's not an easy task as most people can imagine. So working through a couple of final logistical issues. We hope to have the official announcement within two weeks time. So possibly just before or just after the Prime Minister's match in Rabaul.

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    Confirmed on the radio today. PNG are in! Massive for Queensland Cup and international footy! Official announcement in the pipeline.

    I wonder what they will be called?
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    Cassowaries!

    That's what I'd go with anyhow, gotta represent the local wildlife.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DIEHARD View Post
    Confirmed on the radio today. PNG are in! Massive for Queensland Cup and international footy! Official announcement in the pipeline.

    I wonder what they will be called?
    Highlanders?
    This sounds really good on paper, hope it all works out in the long run for all the clubs. Just another way of growing the game and expanding the footprint.

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    Can they be assigned to us pls? Meady could have some pull on that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hail Sezer View Post
    Can they be assigned to us pls? Meady could have some pull on that


    He has no pull on that stuff and thank goodness for that.

    Maybe Team Kumul has all the pull which was set up by Lam to run pngRL
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    It will be fantastic for the game & PNG
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    Meninga to boost PNG rugby league team

    with resurrecting Queensland's State of Origin team, Mal Meninga wants to also help boost Papua New Guinea rugby league by assisting their mooted entry in next year's second-tier Queensland Cup.

    Meninga started a five-year deal as PNGRL high performance manager this year but confirmed he also wanted to assist their Queensland Cup entry - a small step toward their ultimate dream of earning an NRL licence.

    Queensland Cup general manager Jamie O'Connor confirmed an in-principle agreement had been given to the PNG group, headed by their NRL bid group CEO Brad Tassell, for a start next year.

    The PNG government have reportedly moved to address security fears sparked by the recent brutal attack on trekkers by covering the costs of private security teams to accompany Queensland-based players into their team's home Port Moresby.

    Asked if he would assist the PNG Queensland Cup side, Meninga said: "A consultancy, advisory, mentoring role would be good".

    "I think they will do very well in the competition."

    Having inspired eight straight Origin series wins for Queensland, PNG will be hoping Meninga's Midas touch has not worn off ahead of this year's World Cup.

    He has worked alongside PNG coach Adrian Lam in the countdown to the tournament.

    "The game has receded there a little bit in recent times," Meninga said of PNG.

    "I am trying to implement some development programs that is going to help them.

    "We hope they get into the Queensland Cup next year which will aid their development.

    "They are a rugby league mad country.

    "They have so much talent up there any program or competition they get their hands on they will quickly develop.

    "They will be a force in the future no doubt."

    The Kumuls have been drawn alongside Samoa, France and defending champions New Zealand in group B of the 14-team World Cup tournament to be held in the United Kingdom and France.

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    This should also mean that PNG will enter Queensland's development system. Which is great for PNG and puts their young players in front of more NRL scouts.
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    This new side will really give PNG a boost for the 2017 World Cup.
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    PNG Super Coach Signs Three Year Deal as Head Coach of PNG Intrust Super Cup side

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    It’s been revealed that Former Kumul, PNG Kumuls Assistant and multiple PNG Championship winning Agmark Gurias head coach Michael Marum has signed a three year deal to be the inaugural PNG Intrust Super (Queensland) Cup head coach from 2014. Under the Gurias as both a player and for a majority as coach Marum has participated in 10 PNG RFL Grand Finals, including wins in 2001, 03, 05, 09 and 12 under the Rabaul based franchise.

    Agmark Gurias:

    After 13 years with the Gurias we sadly say good bye to our super coach Michael Marum.

    Congratulations however must go out to Michael after signing a 3 year contract to be the Head Coach for the PNG Intrust Super Cup side which kicks off in 2014.

    Hoo Haa !!!

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    good choice ... he'll go well and will go to show that along with John Wagambie (Sepik region) that the best coa ches come from outside of Port Moresby.
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    PNG one step closer to NRL inclusion

    A Papua New Guinea team has been added to next season's Queensland Intrust Super Cup.

    A team from Papua New Guinea could be crowned winners of the newly-formed National Championship on NRL Grand Final day after their submission for inclusion into the Queensland Intrust Super Cup was formally accepted at a meeting of all 13 Intrust Super Cup clubs.

    To play out of Kokopo north east of Port Moresby in the East New Britain islands, the PNG bid was required to meet strict criteria standards around facilities, security measures and the logistics of travel before it was accepted by the Queensland Rugby League.

    The inclusion of a PNG team – whose colours and full name is still to be determined – in addition to the formation of the National Championship that will see the respective winners of the Intrust Super Cup and VB NSW Cup competitions face off on Grand Final day, opens the door for PNG to play on the NRL's greatest stage from 2014.

    The PNG national team failed to record a win at Rugby League World Cup 2013 in their pool that included New Zealand, France and Samoa and QRL chief executive officer Robert Moore said their inclusion creates a new pathway for players from PNG to progress through to the NRL.

    "It would be a wonderful story to see a home-grown PNG player rise from the junior ranks into the Intrust Super Cup and then the National Rugby League," Moore said.

    "At the same time, it provides us with an opportunity to expand into a market with over seven million rugby league fans."

    For full details of PNG's inclusion in the Intrust Super Cup and other key announcements visit qrl.com.au.
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