News Coronavirus and NRL

[The Great Dane]

https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/21/coronavirus-nrl-news-latest-updates/


All ideas on the table
ARL Commission chairman Peter V'landys has confirmed a three-game grand final series is one of the many options being considered for the revised NRL calendar.

V’landys said in a News Corp report the option was a discussion point for the league as it tries to find ways to make up for the delay in the season from last week's decision to suspend the Telstra Premiership due to the global coronavirus pandemic.

"It’s an option that will be considered," he told The Courier Mail.

Under such a proposal, the grand final series could be played at three venues in Sydney, Brisbane and potentially Townsville's new Queensland Country Bank Stadium if a decider was needed.

I don't like it, but sometimes when you need money you gotta do what you gotta do. So I wouldn't be happy about it but I guess I could live with it as a one off .

I'd be mighty pissed if my team won the first game but lost the series though...

 

[Mr Angry]

We can save heaps on the bunker.

Just have @skeepe on remote access, done in 25 seconds.

All calls are final.

6 again.

 

[Spot On]

We can save heaps on the bunker.

Just have @skeepe on remote access, done in 25 seconds.

All calls are final.

6 again.

Skeepe sees a lot of things that don't actually happen in a game - 5 times as many. There'd be 100 penalties a game.

 

[Silent Knight]

We can save heaps on the bunker.

Just have @skeepe on remote access, done in 25 seconds.

All calls are final.

6 again.

My team would never win a game ever again.

 

[AJB1102]

My team would never win a game ever again.

So pretty much BAU for Newy then...

 

[Silent Knight]

So pretty much BAU for Newy then...

Coming from the supporter of a club that took 50 years to win a premiership.

 

[AJB1102]

Coming from the supporter of a club that took 50 years to win a premiership.

Patience is a virtue and good things come to those who wait.

 

[Perth Red]

With RU on life support in this region of the world there will never Be a better opportunity for rugby league to flic the switch and put one of its historic rivals in the ground.
My idea to cut off the oxygen
Invite
Melbourne rebels, qlNd reds, western force and Wellington clubs to switch codes and join the nrl. 20 team 2 conf league. $20million max club expenditure. Nrl grant of $11mill making it cost effective to expand. Nrl games 2 clubs in Melbourne and Brisbane, 2 in nz, a twiggy forest backed perth club. Ru dies a ignominious death.

 

[lockyno1]

With RU on life support in this region of the world there will never Be a better opportunity for rugby league to flic the switch and put one of its historic rivals in the ground.
My idea to cut off the oxygen
Invite
Melbourne rebels, qlNd reds, western force and Wellington clubs to switch codes and join the nrl. 20 team 2 conf league. $20million max club expenditure. Nrl grant of $11mill making it cost effective to expand. Nrl games 2 clubs in Melbourne and Brisbane, 2 in nz, a twiggy forest backed perth club. Ru dies a ignominious death.

So we have teams going broke, the NRL not having much in terms of cash reserves....and your option is to expand? You realise how silly and unpractical that is. We need to focus on getting these clubs that are in the NRL back on their feet. Forget expanding for 5+ years, it's not needed and it would financially cripple the code.

 

[Pommy]

So we have teams going broke, the NRL not having much in terms of cash reserves....and your option is to expand? You realise how silly and unpractical that is. We need to focus on getting these clubs that are in the NRL back on their feet. Forget expanding for 5+ years, it's not needed and it would financially cripple the code.

There’s to many clubs in Sydney why not sue this opportunity to put RL on a solid foundation?

 

[lockyno1]

There’s to many clubs in Sydney why not sue this opportunity to put RL on a solid foundation?

In your view there is. Don't see any team that shouldn't be in the NRL, all are strategic regions at worst. Mergers don't work, it's not the same- ask my mother! She can't stand the Wests Tigers. We need to put expansion on the back burner. Lets get our sides up and running and profitable.

The one thing is that clubs should take this as a warning sign- there was too much needless spending.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[Perth Red]

So we have teams going broke, the NRL not having much in terms of cash reserves....and your option is to expand? You realise how silly and unpractical that is. We need to focus on getting these clubs that are in the NRL back on their feet. Forget expanding for 5+ years, it's not needed and it would financially cripple the code.

yep, at times of great adversity can be found great opportunity. The problem with the game is not lack of money, its how the money is being spent and lack of controls on the clubs to ensure viability. The game wont get a better opportunity than this.

 

[Perth Red]

In your view there is. Don't see any team that shouldn't be in the NRL, all are strategic regions at worst. Mergers don't work, it's not the same- ask my mother! She can't stand the Wests Tigers. We need to put expansion on the back burner. Lets get our sides up and running and profitable.

The one thing is that clubs should take this as a warning sign- there was too much needless spending.

You can achieve that overnight by NRL flexing its control and imposing a total expenditure cap on clubs based on lowest revenue club -5%margin.

 

[YoHadrian]

I'm on board with this Moreton Island idea purely for the chuckles.

 

[dogslife]

I don't like it, but sometimes when you need money you gotta do what you gotta do. So I wouldn't be happy about it but I guess I could live with it as a one off .

I'd be mighty pissed if my team won the first game but lost the series though...

Wouldn't be the first time someone's team lost the battle, but won the war

 

[lockyno1]

yep, at times of great adversity can be found great opportunity. The problem with the game is not lack of money, its how the money is being spent and lack of controls on the clubs to ensure viability. The game wont get a better opportunity than this.

Right now the issue IS a lack of money. It doesn't have the cash in the bank that other codes do hence having to try these silly missions to get the game back on TV.

Forget expansion for at least 5 years, it's going to take 3 seasons for the game to financially recover, it just will. Lets get the core strong again, whilst putting in measures so clubs don't overspend. We don't need to expand and the game won't do it (thankfully as we don't have the depth). As it is there is 2-3 teams worth of players that are borderline first graders.

 

[Perth Red]

Right now the issue IS a lack of money. It doesn't have the cash in the bank that other codes do hence having to try these silly missions to get the game back on TV.

Forget expansion for at least 5 years, it's going to take 3 seasons for the game to financially recover, it just will. Lets get the core strong again, whilst putting in measures so clubs don't overspend. We don't need to expand and the game won't do it (thankfully as we don't have the depth). As it is there is 2-3 teams worth of players that are borderline first graders.

Again not true, NRL has about as much cash equity, and in some sports cases more, as most of Australia's sports. This a once in a lifetime extreme scenario that no one could have been prepared for. We dont need to, but maybe we should. The problem is not lack of revenue, weve got squillions, its clubs continuing to not manage their businesses sustainably. NRL has this opportunity to change that if it has the balls. By doing so it can also reduce the amount clubs need from the NRL, giving the NRL the resources to kill Union in Australia if they could get some key clubs to switch.

 

[Generalzod]

Project Apollo the god of healing....

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Right now the issue IS a lack of money. It doesn't have the cash in the bank that other codes do hence having to try these silly missions to get the game back on TV.

Forget expansion for at least 5 years, it's going to take 3 seasons for the game to financially recover, it just will. Lets get the core strong again, whilst putting in measures so clubs don't overspend. We don't need to expand and the game won't do it (thankfully as we don't have the depth). As it is there is 2-3 teams worth of players that are borderline first graders.

Which other codes are cashed up? The AFL and Cricket maybe... certainly not Union or soccer.