“It’s Like Cheating”: Richardson Blasts PNG Tax-Free Rules
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What are the implications of PNG's tax-free rules on NRL player movement?
How fair is it that the NRL, which runs a competition, has two horses in the race? G'day, I'm Werner Kendi Blitz, your daily hit of NRL news, Kendi. Heard you played darts last night.
Yeah, I played darts. It went all right, actually. Yeah. I reckon in my weakened state, it took all the nerves out of the... Yeah, righty-o. Standing up at the hockey, yeah. Maybe the fact you're off the beers, too, might have helped a little bit. Could have helped, yeah.
How does Shane Richardson view the fairness of PNG's salary cap concessions?
Yeah, a little bit.
Maybe later on in the night it did.
What is the significance of the Tommy Raudonikis Cup in NRL?
No, we'll see. Well, good to have you back, mate. We seem to talk about that... Every week last year on Wednesday, so get the updates.
What happened in the Reed Mahoney vs Bulldogs match preview?
Well, last time we played, they were undefeated, so we won a couple of games off them, but too good for us. Very good.
All right, well, let's get into the footy.
Why are some teams struggling with slow starts in the NRL season?
Richo has blown up and said that Papua New Guinea are like cheating the salary cap with the concessions they're getting.
Yeah, well, the...
What are the key players to watch in the upcoming State of Origin Women's match?
The fallout's now begun, hasn't it, with all of what's happening with Luai gone there. Everybody's sat back. There's a big avalanche of opinion about the advantage they have.
How do the upcoming NRL fixtures shape the league standings?
To be fair, Warren, we've been sort of – we banged on this about this last year when it was first announced. It was always going to be an unfair advantage. I find it so rugby league, though, that – The club sat back last year. This is the deal we're going to put to Papua New Guinea. We're going to give all of you clubs, every one of you, $4 million as part of the licensing agreement to bring them in as a franchise or franchising agreement to bring them in.
What are the predictions for Round 9 of the NRL?
And you're going to get $4 million for it, and this is what's going to happen. The club said, beautiful, put the $4 million in their pocket, waited until they signed their first player, and now they're bitching and moaning everywhere. Now, that's not to say they aren't valid. It's just that they – They had their opportunity before they took the money, and they took the money.
I think even with a tax-free benefit of Papua New Guinea, people didn't expect them to sign somebody like Lua.
But they were always going to get somebody. That's the part about it. Look. If I want to sit down and look into my crystal ball, I think the Papua New Guinea franchise will be a disaster. Okay? I really do. Now, at the moment, we are all riding high on this sugar hit from the game about signing Luai and how great he is. He's going to go and build a nation. Well, this is a nation in fair dinkum stakes where – 80% of the adult population is unemployed. If you look up Papua New Guinea unemployment rate, which I did today, it says about 2.6%, 2.8% or whatever. And I thought, well, that's actually not that bad. But that's from the 15% to 20% of people who actually work.
Yeah, right.
80% of the adult population don't work. in Papua New Guinea.
Yeah, right.
The other thing you've got over there, and this is all going to come to play years down the track, okay, is the wide-scale corruption that is over there. In government, which is copping $60 million a part of from the Australian federal government, And also the corruption that's in business over there, which will come into play when third parties, you would imagine, start to come into play in rugby league. That's how it will affect us. Then you've got the other issue of the resorts slash compounds. You call them compounds, it goes back to the Cold War Russia days, so you can't call it that. But they call them resorts over there. But my understanding of it is... When you go over there, you're in your resort, if we want to call it that.
But if you want to go to another place, you've actually got to basically get in your car and travel there by car and then go in the gates there.
With a security escort.
With a security escort because there's pockets of these compounds. You can't just think, oh, I might go for a walk today, get up and just go walking around. Port Moresby and having a look around to see what's there. You just can't do that. Now, where this is going to affect football players, one, they all love meeting for a morning coffee.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the implications of PNG's tax-free rules on NRL player movement?
0:00–0:27
2
How does Shane Richardson view the fairness of PNG's salary cap concessions?
0:27–0:30
3
What is the significance of the Tommy Raudonikis Cup in NRL?
0:30–0:37
4
What happened in the Reed Mahoney vs Bulldogs match preview?
0:37–0:45
5
Why are some teams struggling with slow starts in the NRL season?
0:45–0:55
6
What are the key players to watch in the upcoming State of Origin Women's match?
0:55–1:04
7
How do the upcoming NRL fixtures shape the league standings?
1:04–1:30
8
What are the predictions for Round 9 of the NRL?
1:30–34:21
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