It comes as ARL boss Peter V'landys is hoping to reveal in the coming weeks that a side based in Perth, the Western Bears, is to be the 19th team to join the NRL, after the PNG franchise.

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but there is confidence on both sides that expansion talks are in the final stages. "The Australian Government, the PNG Government and the NRL are aligned on the fundamentals of an agreement.