'PNG KUMUL KNOWS HOW TO BEAT THE GIANTS' The Perspective By: Eddie Aila - PNG Kumul 196 22 years ago I was 21years old. We got flogged 63-0 in our warm-up game against the Kangaroos in Townsville. We trained the house down as a result of a crappy performance, courtesy of the current Melbourne Storm coach, Craig Bellamy. We got saluted off from our camp at Goldie Barracks with deafening bombs and gun salute. We were heading for war in France and England, brother's in arms, for our country. We sang on the bus but we were still divided - Highlands, Islands, Mix-race, Outcasts... United yet separated. We arrived to train in Carcassonne, France for a few days before heading to Paris to play hosts, France. In France, something clicked when we landed in Paris and passed by a million bridges... we sang like "PNG", no longer divided!! Our singing bonded us. Lonely tears fell quietly as we travelled on the bus, singing our hearts out, to our training ground before the g...
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