Will make a nice change from their current supporters, most of whom are old guineas.
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Rumour Blues investigating selling games to PNG
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Those old guineas probably just need some of those anti ageing drugs. I wonder if Mr Dank can spare any of the good stuff he supplies Sam Newman and Graham Cornes with.
There is almost no AFL fan base in PNG - it's die-hard Rugby League, with a little bit of soccer and volleyball. I'd be surprised if 1% of the population had ever seen an AFL game on TV.
On top of that - it's an extremely poor country. Carlton are not playing games in Morseby for a dozen locals to be paying 1 kina each to attend.
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Hey they made a profit as well... after government grants prop them up and not paying the players what they were owed.
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What do you mean used to?
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Do you mean in that we still hugely fund them and that it's not past tense?
Or are you asking how we funded them?
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No I mean we still fund them, I don’t know why, the country is richer in resources than Australia, it just that it I’d siphoned off
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I don't think the resources are being exploited and if they were, it would be a foreign nation, like Australia taking advantage of it and Indonesia has taken half the joint and they're full steam ahead mining it.
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Pm me
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I'm hearing similar, but Rabaul in the conversation.
They want to make a New Britain/Wayne Brittain thing
catchy.
They want to make a New Britain/Wayne Brittain thing
catchy.
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Bit hard to play in Rabaul, the town is under ash, kokopo maybe but even then , footy is reasonably buoyant in moresby, used to have a strong comp in Lae in the 80s
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Having been to PNG on a couple of occasions I just cant see how this is plausible.
Bullshit!
Bullshit!
Members email this morning outlined how the Blues are now debt free and already have smashed their membership record for this season.
This rumour was just some utter s**t made up by somebody who should probably focus more on his train wreck of a football club.
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Not sure anyone can trust any financials record Carlton keep, let alone how they position them to their members out of desperation. My source is still certain this is a very real conversation with scope for reality in the future.
Wouldn't put a merger off the cards if they are looking at this too.
Wouldn't put a merger off the cards if they are looking at this too.
Yep those independent auditors the clubs use along with the AFL but the financials can't be trusted.
Debt free, record membership and a new development at Princes Park screams merger to me.
I was going to say there is more chance of James Hird coaching Essendon again than Carlton merging but you never know what Sheeds and the rest of the 'Whatever it takes' crew out at Tullamarine will come up with next.
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