Do you want them to have another one?
And if so, how much should the taxpayer put in to save it?
Would you pay $7million? Because that’s apparently what they’re short.
The Whānau Ora money is gone and it's understood that Sky is pulling its sponsorship of half a million dollars a year.World rugby also wants to either reduce or completely cut the money it puts in. That’s around $1.7million a year.
So, for a club that costs about 12 m a year to run, it is short around $7million.
My answer to the first question I asked you … is yes. Moana Pasifika should be saved.
There is a very good reason to have a super ruby team dedicated to giving professional opportunities to Tongan and Samoan rugby players.
They were also one of the best success stories of the season.
My answer to the second question is that the taxpayer should pay nothing.
I can almost guarantee there will be a request for taxpayer help, but this is not a taxpayer problem. This is a rugby problem. This is one for NZ rugby and rugby Australia to fix.
They are the ones who own the Super Rugby competition, and the ones who make money off the broadcast deal from it.
I hope they can sort it out though because in a rugby competition that failed to excite people during the regular season, Moana Pasifika were one of the better stories.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
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I think a better question is why aren’t they paying back the money taxpayers unknowingly gave them the past few years.
I could really care less if Moana Pasifika survives or not.
The less opportunity for maori/pacifica to be professional sportsmen the better. Too many fritter their way through education consoling themselves that they will be grossly over paid sport professionals, whereas the great majotity never will be. With great reduction or removal of the prospect they may beaver at education more as successful Asians do.
All the time Moana Pacific players were receiving funds from NZ taxpayers from a Government health fund, they knowingly hid the truth , or the management did, or the players managers did , or the coaching staff did, or the accountants did , or the bankers did , or the adverting moguls did ,or the media did and they ALL misappropriated Parliament.
A full audit of the books is required to sort out what was players payments and what was just wasted when it was not earned , just spent.
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