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March 2012
21-03-2012 - BID LAUNCHES FREE RUGBY LEAGUE EDUCATION
The PNG NRL Bid has today provided FREE access to rugby League literature aimed at assisting the development of rugby league in PNG. The literature can be downloaded for FREE at the Bids website, under the development section at www.pngnrlbid.com, and includes: 1. Coach Education Booklet in English & Tok Pisin 2. Schoolboy Rugby League Handbook 3. PNG Rugby League National Code of Con...
20-03-2012 - PNG NRL BID NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM KICKS OFF IN NGI
The PNG NRL BID kicks off its 2012 National Training Program in the New Guinea Islands tomorrow (Wednesday 21st March). 31 coaches from throughout the New Guinea Islands region will come together in Kokopo to begin their 2012 ‘refresher’ training led by PNG NRL Bid Development Manager Shane Morris. The course is part of the BIDs National All Schools Program and will be delivered thro...
20-03-2012 - PNG NRL REFEREES IN TRAINING
The PNG NRL Digicel Cup Teams are not the only squads in training in the lead up to the start of the PNG NRL season. 21 referees throughout PNG have come together in a joint initiative of the PNG NRL and the PNG NRL Bid to refine their skills and raise the level of officiating this season. With help from the PNG NRL Bid, the referees will be put through their paces on the field and tested...
19-03-2012 - PNG team in NRL could be a better bet
Papua New Guinea should not be anywhere near as destitute as it has become. It has remarkable natural assets, a rich and powerful neighbour, and an already significant income that is about to double through its nation-changing natural gas project. Yet its entrenched and indefensible corruption leaves its national coffers as good as empty. In short meetings with PNG ministers, I have witnessed tha...
09-03-2012 - DARREN LOCKYER EMAIL HOAX
The PNG NRL BID has been asked by the Brisbane Broncos to issue a media statement on behalf of the Brisbane Broncos and Darren Lockyer to confirm the email circulating and rumours of Lockyer’s death are a HOAX. PNG NRL BID management were contacted today (1.30pm Thursday 8th March, 2012) by Marty Rowen – Public Relations & Media Manager of the Brisbane Broncos confirming t...
01-03-2012 - TIP TO WIN WITH THE PNG NRL BID
The 2012 NRL Competition is set to begin tonight (Thursday) and support for the competition in PNG is bigger than ever. What a way to kickstart the 2012 NRL Season with a spectacular curtain raiser between Wayne Bennett’s former team ‘The Dragons’ taking on his new charges ‘The Knights’! The PNG NRL BID are offering fans of Rugby League the opportunity f...
