Michael Chammas
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1,341 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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So if you're going to uproot somebody, and I had this conversation to you earlier about moving my family away from their family, if you're going to do that and you're going to move to Papua New Guinea and you're going to be living in a resort and the simple things in life that you had in Sydney or Brisbane or wherever you are no longer exist, then of course you're going to have to compensate the players for that, right?
I believe...
that we are getting, because people want to come and there's a lot of them that, and there are, they want to come for the paycheck, right?
But because there are so many of them, we as a club are able then to work out who are the ones that are coming for more than that?
Who are our Jerome Lewis who are, yes, they're setting their families up for life, but are also motivated by it.
And because there's a high demand for us, for players to come, our phones, honestly, the people who want to come, we're knocking people back right now because we want to be patient because we want to make sure that we get the best players.
So we're able to pick and choose and do our homework and due diligence on these players to make sure that we have the right type.
So the argument I make is, no, we don't have double the salary.
We've got the same.
We're just the players are benefiting a lot more.
But it needed that.
If you want to make it a success, the Australian government, I don't want to get into geopolitics because that's not my area and I said I never would, but it's been made very clear by the Australian government just how important this deal with the PNG government is for the future of this country.
You need to make it work.
And the future of the PNG as well, yeah.
No, I haven't had a chat with Elbow about it, but I have had a few chats with Prime Minister Marape in PNG about it, about what this, like... What does it mean for them?
Everything to them.
And that's what, I say this, I think that's what got Jerome across the line.
Jerome spent some time...
with the Prime Minister and he explained just how important rugby league was to actually making change for a lot of the social issues in that country.
Just things like
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