The Virtual Terrace • Pop........ The Tongan bubble is done.
fun time frankie wrote:
It would be different if these players stuck with there countries but they don’t the best ones will always play for Australia or New Zealand until there seemed not good enough and then they go back to badge kissing there long lost country first we had Samoa as the next big thing then Fiji and now Tonga I wish these countries would make it but sadly they won’t and a question for you roopy what’s gone wrong at the PNG hunters
From day one they have been happy to release any player who gets an offer from an NRL, ESL or Qld cup side, and as they have trained up players, they have lost good players by the dozens.
Only 5 current PNG Hunters played for PNG yesterday - the rest were contracted to NRL or Qld cup sides, and if they had been able to fly in ESL players, there's a fair chance it would have been about 2 Hunters in the side.
That is success. They are getting guys up to a standard where rich clubs offer them good money, and off they go to improve themselves.
The current Hunters side is basically stacked full of kids who are training fulltime and trying to get a contract somewhere else.
Statistics: Posted by roopy — Sun Jun 23, 2019 1:54 pm — Replies 19 — Views 1103