Michael Chammas

speaker

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.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 3.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris · Michael Chammas: Building the NRL's PNG Team, Leaving Journalism & Taking Opportunities · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

They're a connected group.

So that's our job now.

And part of my recruitment is to recruit in groups so that you sign someone, they've got their best mate with them, or they've got their partner's best mates with that person.

You've got to recruit in groups because if you're coming isolated and not knowing anyone, it makes it a lot harder.

Yeah.

Well, I'm not going to speak out of school and talk about players that could be off contract November 1, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out who they are, who he's played with, who his close mates are.

I know that

already that people, just signing Jerome, people want to play with him.

Look, it's funny, Benji and I haven't got the closest relationship.

We used to be close.

I don't know really what happened, but so that wasn't, you know, I spoke to Benji's manager and I rang the club, spoke to the CEO and

And Jerome would have done this anyway, but part of the conversation with Jerome was you need to make sure that you do everything respectfully.

And he would have done it by the Tigers because the moment you set foot in Papua New Guinea,

You're not going through unnoticed.

You'll be spotted the moment you walk off the plane by every single person who walks to that airport.

It happened.

So he needed to make sure that the Tigers were well aware of his visit.

And that goes for any other player that we bring.

Showing 881–900 of 1,341 · page 45 of 68