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NRL faces major turmoil as clubs threaten breakaway league

LESStar58

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And your club is a direct product thereof...

Still raw over the fight in 2008 where Nightingale headbutted Slater and cried like a little whipped pup when he got a flogging in return?

Oh, and Geyer's pass to Martin was flat, Mundine should have passed to Tracey and Harrigan got the penalty try call absolutely right.

If these things had or had not come to pass maybe St. George Illawarra would have 2 premierships and not 1.
 

Raiderdave

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It's in reasonable shape but could be better. A lot of things piss people off - we wouldn't have forums like this if everyone was happy with the state of the game.


Oh so now it's in reasonable shape

Yesterday you had nrl officials rattling coin tins on street corners
You seem a bit confused lol
 

Canard

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Oh, and Geyer's pass to Martin was flat,

It wasn't even flat, it was about 2m backwards.

Someone posted a "spidercam" shot on here a few years ago showing it clearly. Before that I was sure it was flat/forward also.

It was a good example of how people watching on the sideline camera can believe that a pass is forward, when its not.
 
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FOUR club chairmen have stormed out of a fiery meeting with NRL bosses after a breakdown in negotiations over future funding which threatens the worst split in the game since Super League.

Canterbury’s Ray Dib, Cronulla’s Damian Keogh, Melbourne Storm’s Bart Campbell and the Cowboys’ Laurence Lancini all walked out after 15 minutes.

They met at a nearby hotel to discuss their next move.

Those club bosses also have the support of Roosters boss Nick Politis, who is overseas but left them with his proxy vote.

Seven chairmen from other clubs remained in the room.

In a dramatic day at the NRL’s Moore Park headquarters, chief executive Todd Greenberg and commission chairman John Grant reneged on a deal done last year to fund the clubs 30 per cent more than the salary cap each year.

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ARL Chairman John Grant. Picture: Jono Searle
They told the chairmen that all previous agreements had been scrapped and they were now working on a new strategic plan on how to spend the $1.8 billion TV deal.

There was talk after the meeting that clubs would now issue a vote of no confidence in Grant as chairman of the commission.

The chairmen met recently with the NRL and could not agree on any of the 12 points on the agenda.

All 16 clubs end their participation agreements with the NRL next year, which has led to talks of a rebel breakaway group.

The NRL will shortly release a statement on the meeting.

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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...g/news-story/f179f5411c61bda478d1e7723fc13658
 

Big Salad

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It would be interesting to see how far a breakaway league would get without the Broncos, purely from a TV broadcast funding point of view. I would suggest not very far at all....

By contrast a franchise like Melbourne could be replaced with a team from Perth and the NRL wouldn't lose a whole lot from a TV perspective.


Point being that if a couple of teams choose not to renew their participation agreements it could finally open up a few places for the game to expand into places like Perth, second NZ team etc.
 

Cockadoodledoo

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FOUR club chairmen have stormed out of a fiery meeting with NRL bosses after a breakdown in negotiations over future funding which threatens the worst split in the game since Super League.

Canterbury’s Ray Dib, Cronulla’s Damian Keogh, Melbourne Storm’s Bart Campbell and the Cowboys’ Laurence Lancini all walked out after 15 minutes.

Those horrible heartland clubs do not care for the game.
 

insert.pause

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It's an absolute mess, nothing has progressed since last December and now even that work has been undone. Back to square one. What a farce. Where's the leadership? Neither side seems capable of compromise.
 

Cockadoodledoo

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It would be interesting to see how far a breakaway league would get without the Broncos, purely from a TV broadcast funding point of view. I would suggest not very far at all....

By contrast a franchise like Melbourne could be replaced with a team from Perth and the NRL wouldn't lose a whole lot from a TV perspective.


Point being that if a couple of teams choose not to renew their participation agreements it could finally open up a few places for the game to expand into places like Perth, second NZ team etc.

There won't be a breakaway league. For sure there will be some hard balling in negotiations but anything beyond that is News Ltd fabrication.
 

T-Boon

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To commit to something the clubs then rely on to plan the future cap and player rosters and then renege on is the absolute Height of un professionalism

The NRL are concerned that it is money wasted to the game.
They have noticed that every time the grant goes up, the clubs just increase the wastage and make a loss anyway. They have had to step in to save several clubs in the past 18 months.
What the NRL want is to bring in a cap on football department expenditure but the clubs are resisting this. The clubs have no interest in things like expansion or the future of the game outside there own survival in it.
 

Diesel

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It would be interesting to see how far a breakaway league would get without the Broncos, purely from a TV broadcast funding point of view. I would suggest not very far at all....

By contrast a franchise like Melbourne could be replaced with a team from Perth and the NRL wouldn't lose a whole lot from a TV perspective.


Point being that if a couple of teams choose not to renew their participation agreements it could finally open up a few places for the game to expand into places like Perth, second NZ team etc.
I'm thinking this is the NRL's plan. Get 13-15 teams to sign up to the NRL. 2-3 crack the shits don't sign. After discussions the ARLC announces 16 team comp in 2018 that includes WA, Brisbane2 and NZ2 from their 2nd tier comps
 
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AJB1102

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I'm thinking this is the NRL's plan. Get 13-15 teams to sign up to the NRL. 2-3 crack the shits don't sign. After discussions the ARLC announces 16 team comp in 2018 that includes WA, Brisbane2 and NZ2 from their 2nd tier comps

2-3 clubs might crack the shits but the reality is they'll have nowhere to go and no matter how reluctant they might be they'll tow the line rather than die.

Might be a bit lofty to suggest the NRL has a "plan". Maybe the same way a mouse in a maze has a plan; bounce from wall to wall till it finds the cheese.
 

sharknows

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If you shook hands with Grant or Greenberg you'd better count your fingers after...slimy pair with only their own interests at heart. The clubs need to consolidate & get rid of them if the game is to flourish fairly.
 

Arnold

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It's the responsibility of the games leaders to secure the future of the game with a strategy that works. They have no strategy and as a result they just stop the funding to the ones that are the product.
 

flamin

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It's the responsibility of the games leaders to secure the future of the game with a strategy that works. They have no strategy and as a result they just stop the funding to the ones that are the product.

If they had no plan it would be in their interests to just chuck whatever money at the clubs to make them go away. Obviously there are other things the NRL is trying to balance.
 

Arnold

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If they had no plan it would be in their interests to just chuck whatever money at the clubs to make them go away. Obviously there are other things the NRL is trying to balance.

That's fine but have they changed plans they previously committed to?
 

blukablu

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Roosters, Bulldogs, Cowboys, Storm and Sharks... Would have to be 4 out of the 5 least popular clubs in the league. This isn't going to go anywhere.
 

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