Hawaiian

[Nasheed]

Nasheed here,
Just had a thought so logged on.
What do you think of the idea to go to hawaii and expand into Hawaii?
They are next to the Pacific islands and despite being under the American rule are the exact same people as Samoans who play and are good at league.
I think they’ll take to it like a duck to water.
What’s more they are by far the largest pacific island in the world. Double population of Fiji and 15x bigger than Western Samoa.
Has anyone got any issues with this?

 

[GA45]

 

[Wild Robbo]

 

[Philistine]

Nasheed here,
Just had a thought so logged on.
What do you think of the idea to go to hawaii and expand into Hawaii?
They are next to the Pacific islands and despite being under the American rule are the exact same people as Samoans who play and are good at league.
I think they’ll take to it like a duck to water.
What’s more they are by far the largest pacific island in the world. Double population of Fiji and 15x bigger than Western Samoa.
Has anyone got any issues with this?

You can't plough and seed a totally green field. However hard the NRL might push from here, there has to be a minimal amount of pulling from the other direction. I duck-duck-went an inquiry "Rugby League in Hawaii" (I'm boycotting Google), and found a web site for a Rugby League Association that was set up in 2009 and apparently not updated since, and a Facebook site with information on it about the 2022 NRL season - not the 2023 season! The latter sounds a bit more promising, but hardly indicates a local population blowing a fuse to play and watch rugby league.

 

[Cantabrian35]

Nasheed here,
Just had a thought so logged on.
What do you think of the idea to go to hawaii and expand into Hawaii?
They are next to the Pacific islands and despite being under the American rule are the exact same people as Samoans who play and are good at league.
I think they’ll take to it like a duck to water.
What’s more they are by far the largest pacific island in the world. Double population of Fiji and 15x bigger than Western Samoa.
Has anyone got any issues with this?

The largest Pacific island in the world?

I think you need to go back to your sources.

 

[Dogmonster]

I think they like their food too much.

 

[bulldog butch]

They could be called the 'pizzas'

 

[Nasheed]

The largest Pacific island in the world?

I think you need to go back to your sources.

By population

 

[Nasheed]

You can't plough and seed a totally green field. However hard the NRL might push from here, there has to be a minimal amount of pulling from the other direction. I duck-duck-went an inquiry "Rugby League in Hawaii" (I'm boycotting Google), and found a web site for a Rugby League Association that was set up in 2009 and apparently not updated since, and a Facebook site with information on it about the 2022 NRL season - not the 2023 season! The latter sounds a bit more promising, but hardly indicates a local population blowing a fuse to play and watch rugby league.

League was non existent in Samoa 39 years ago and now it’s my belief it’s the number one sport there.
I think Hawaiians will enjoy it. They just don’t know about it.
Once they understand that Tongans and Samoans love it they’ll jump on it.
Union seems to be a presence.

 

[Nasheed]

Might also be worth noting Santa Rosa has a rugby league team.
The Santa Rosa dead pelicans!

 

[Cantabrian35]

By population

I know what you meant but your statement is widely inaccurate.

 

[Wahesh]

Nasheed here,
Just had a thought so logged on.
What do you think of the idea to go to hawaii and expand into Hawaii?
They are next to the Pacific islands and despite being under the American rule are the exact same people as Samoans who play and are good at league.
I think they’ll take to it like a duck to water.
What’s more they are by far the largest pacific island in the world. Double population of Fiji and 15x bigger than Western Samoa.
Has anyone got any issues with this?

Separating Hawaii from the USA (who are already piss weak in rugby league) is like separating the indigenous players from the Australian team - it’s simply not going to happen.

 

[Nate DAWG]

 

[Nate DAWG]

Have you been to Hawaii bro? It’s pretty far. A lot of Samoans and Tongans live there bro. Strong NFL presence. Never gunna happen. But don’t stop with your ideas, one day you might accidentally say something that makes sense

 

[haz123]

I like pineapple on pizza as well...

 

[Nasheed]

Have you been to Hawaii bro? It’s pretty far. A lot of Samoans and Tongans live there bro. Strong NFL presence. Never gunna happen. But don’t stop with your ideas, one day you might accidentally say something that makes sense

Thsnks.
No I haven’t been to Hawaii or anywhere outside Oz but I want to go one day.
If samoas and Tongans are there already then there’s an opportunity. NFL isn’t for everyone. I don’t think it’s as tough as people say IF there is a will

 

[Nasheed]

Separating Hawaii from the USA (who are already piss weak in rugby league) is like separating the indigenous players from the Australian team - it’s simply not going to happen.

Don’t think that’s valid.
Hawaiians don’t really see themselves as American. They r Hawaiians first and secretly in their heart they wish they were independent

 

[Nasheed]

Also another low hang fruit is American Samoa but maybe the market is really small

 

[Berries]

We could put a team on Christmas Island

 

[Nasheed]

We could put a team on Christmas Island

Don’t think that’s a good idea. My understanding is the culture on Christmas Island is very feral.