Michael Chammas
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1,341 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Michael Chammas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's not organized.
Well, that's our job.
And that's what the PNG are at the moment, putting so much money into providing them with just simple tools to get there.
Man hours that goes into development, where there was a graph, the amount of man hours that goes into a kid by the age of 16 in PNG compared to Australia.
The gulf is so big between them because they're training three, four times a week.
You can't compare it to that.
Some of these kids get to the age of 18 and have never worn a pair of boots.
Like they're learning how to play football in boots.
Like that's the sort of thing we're talking about over there.
So, um, if we can close that gap and which they're doing at the moment with the academies that are in around the country.
Yep.
Yep.
Last two or three years.
There's eight of them now at the moment around the country for boys and girls.
It's, well, it's funded, partly funded by the NRL and the PNG rugby league and, uh, the Australian PNG government.
There's,
because they see how important it is.
But we're now going to come over the top of that and start up an elite academy in PNG, in Port Moresby.
Then we can pick the eyes out of the ones all around the country and say, yep, we've identified you.
You come into our system and we start to develop him so that, you know, it might only be two of every group that we progress into the NRL, but at least there's a chance.
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