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NRL rebellion: Rugby league clubs want CEO Dave Smith gone or threaten to leave comp

Perth Red

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Re the clubs alleged demands


The Sunday Telegraph can reveal all 16 NRL clubs have united to turn the blow torch on Grant by signing a document at a Sydney CBD meeting last Thursday stating their list of demands.

The nine demands of the 16 NRL clubs include:

* Annual grants of 130 per cent of the amount of total player payments -
grant should be at set amount above salary cap and have an indication linked to NRL revenue. $8mill salary cap and $10mill grant for 2018, going up 5% each year of tv's contract sounds about fair if to deal is around $400mill a year.

* A 30 per cent share of NRL profits
Bollox! The clubs get the grants that's their share. The rest needs to be for reinvestment in the game.

* A review of the ARLC constitution
Bollox, it's working well for THE GAME

* NRL licences for an indefinite period
Ok but with some caveats around expected performance. I wonder as well if the directors/LC realise they could be open to being sued by the NRL in this scenario if they can't deliver and keep a club running?

* An independent review of the NRL’s costs
NRL produces a annual reports including financials. Presumably clubs have the right to question the detail in this if they see fit?

* A say in approving the NRL’s budget
Bollox, you don't let the lunatics run the asylum! Most can't budget their own club let alone the whole game.

* A review of the salary cap ratchet clauses
. What's this?

* A vehicle to share digital rights based on the model used in Major League Baseball
Anyone know what this model is?
 

Perth Red

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Interestingly in that article the constitutional changes are about who can be nominated for the commission, not the voting rights of the commission.

Clubs have said the break away threat is a nonsense, all know It is a nonsense, there is no need for the NRL to deny it. As stupid and self centred as clubs can be they still remember 1997 and the damage that did to everyone,
 
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If there is no chance of a breakaway, why is the NRL so desperate to bribe the clubs into signing participation agreements?

And they obviously don't remember 1995 because the arl did the same thing and it counted for nothing.
 

taipan

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Simple answer :Certainty.
So the ARLC has clubs tied up and can negotiate future NRL sponsorship such as Telstra,VB etc.

The NRL clubs would be fully aware of the damage the last breakaway did to the game.Loss of fans via Norths,and the Joint ventures.And loss of fans because News half owned the game.

If they want to just about kill off the code,another Super league 2 would just about do it.
 

alien

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if there is no chance of a breakaway, then the nrl can simply ignore all of the demands
 

Perth Red

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Not really, the clubs could refuse to sign the licenses and sit on their hands. The NRL needs 8 fixtures a week to fulfill its contracts. Clubs are in a pretty powerful position and they know it so will work it hard to get as much as they can. The $3mill is to get them signed up and try to avoid confrontation and counter act unrealistic demands from the clubs. Clubs know they can only push it so far though or they end losing out big time. No way in the world they can set up a new comp, the NRL own all the brands for starters.
 

Desert Qlder

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How many 'chances of a breakaway' have there been over the past three years according to News Ltd?

No doubt there will be more to come because, as evidenced in this thread, there is an endless supply of morons who believe their every word.
 
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The "morons" who obviously believe the clubs could split are the ones offering them $3 million of the game's cash, each, to promise not to.
 

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