Michael Chammas
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1,038 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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Yeah, well, I think it's unknown territory for everyone.
It feels like it's a shiny new toy and everyone's like, how's this going to work?
And I get that.
I had the same questions when I started, right?
It's just there's so many things that you just don't foresee.
And even for us, as we run the club, there's going to be things that pop up.
It's like, okay, we didn't think of that.
But that's part of the excitement of what we're doing.
It is unknown and there is a –
a definite feel from everyone around there is at the start it was like yeah well is why is this team here is it political and then it's became as you know every club took the money and now it's become the narrative shifted again which is fine like i've been in the media long enough to understand if they're talking about you it's a good thing so let's can we start off with that let's just start off we'll do a little bit of a chronology here why did the new south wales government think it was so important to have a team up in papua new guinea
So the Australian government, as I said, I don't want to talk out of school because the deal was done between the Australian government, the NRL and the PNG government well before I was even considered to do this job.
I was still at journo writing about it.
But obviously the geopolitical reasons there behind it.
But for me, I'm never going to get into a geopolitical discussion on anything.
But the one thing I keep saying is that
You tell me that Papua New Guineans don't deserve a rugby league team.
No one will be able to tell you that because you go there and you see just how much rugby league means to them.
I'll tell you it means more to them than it does to people in Australia.
And that might sound stupid, but that is their life.
Like for a lot of people, they don't have much.
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