Premiership not unrealistic for Hunters

 I CONGRATULATE PNG Hunters coach Michael Marum, the players and the support staff. 

Your hard work has so far kept a clean, winning record and I know that the majority of Papua New Guineans were and will be with you  100%   throughout  the  remaining  games in the Queensland Cup. 

We are all proud of you and look forward to seeing you keep the record clean for as long as possible. 

We were told by the former Kumuls coach after the boys lost all their games in the recent World Cup that they may not be able to match the top teams in the next tournament, much less win a game. 

Some of us knew a long time ago that a good coach can always turn a lowly-rated team into champions in one season or less. 

Coach Marum may be the answer to prove that prophecy of a winless Kumuls in the next World Cup wrong. 

For one thing, Marum can communicate to the boys in Tok Pisin to get some results; something that overseas-based coaches who do not speak  local dialect cannot do.

It may be too soon to make such lofty comments, but I am confident that Marum will guide the boys to bring in the goods and up the level of rugby league in the country. 

He has done it with the Agmark Gurias and can do more. 

We  have  to  trust  him and equip him and the boys. Marum is a home-grown product.

I am sure Marum has been thinking a lot about the huge task at hand and is aware that it is a personal challenge to raise his level of coaching skills, and is prepared to do so. 

I wish Marum, his support team and the PNG Hunters the best in the remaining games. 

It would be nice to see you  all  at  the  end  of the season as premiers in the competition. 

That is not impossible and I think the Hunters are aware of that too. 

PNG Tauna

Port Moresby