Rugby League has to be promoted in all of PNG.

Rugby the game of all has been promoted by the Aussies and Britains ever since started there. However it was known in PNG and other Pacific Islands during pre Independence Period. During those times it was opportunity for only few of our boys like Arebo Tamaku, Taxi , Mea Mora and others to play and make name but never had the opportunity of playing in a NRL club or supper league club.
In comparison today, we have fellows like Stanly Gene, Makali Arzu, and others plus newly recruited bloks like Charlie Wabo, Menzie Yere who will be joining the fellows this years to play and live in England. There are also others playing rugby in NRL clubs and fiter Clubs in Australia .At this stage, rugby league is an opportuinty for PNG in terms of sports to forster national pride in the international arena. I am not saying other sports cannot forster national pride but there is no such opportuinty that is available in rubgy league than to other sports in PNG .

Rugby league is professionalised in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and France and maybe in the future it might be in US, Russia, Japan and etc...Its so interesting, At the recent 2008 world Cup PNG was pooled with the 3 major rugby league powers like Australia, New Zealand and Briatin. There was no exception, they know we can play with them and they had this great confident in our boys who had the natural talents and skills in playing rugby league and they want to know them well.

We have already got very briliant developmental strategies for rugby league and we need to promote it in all over the country. For instance the school boys rugby league , the offseason rugby tournment usually played in local communities and we have this proper seasons and then to intercity. These strategies has to be revived in all parts of PNG and all levels of Government has to take some iniciatives in funding or sponsorship of players so that players can view rugby league as their profession and perform to their best to promote it globally with Australia, Britain and New Zealand.