Peter V'landys - New NRL/ARLC Chairman

[Mr. Shaman]

Easy fix. Vlando just needs to marry one of his daughters off to a Abu Dhabi Prince and we can stick our fingers into that sweet sweet oil money.

 

[Wb1234]

 

[siv]

Thought the wording was National U21s

Anyway it's a good first step, so that in 2 years we are ready for National RG

 

[Bukowski]

Thought the wording was National U21s

Anyway it's a good first step, so that in 2 years we are ready for National RG

Would there be a need for both 21s and reserve grade?

 

[MugaB]

Would there be a need for both 21s and reserve grade?

Of course otherwise, most 1st graders that don't get picked in 1st grade that weekend don't play at all...
Otherwise all the players that are reserve grade Who are over 22 would flee to England

 

[siv]

Would there be a need for both 21s and reserve grade?

We saw a lot of mental health/suicides issues trying to run NYC on its own, if you were a late bloomer and didn't make the old Top 25

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Yes but it would be a financial drain for the NRL, at a time its planning on expanding both its own national men and women's competitions. The NRL may be in a stronger financial positing than the UKSL, but the NRL's financial resources are not bottomless, especially if the NRL's finances are tied into player collective bargaining agreements guaranteeing players a certain fixed percentage of it.

This wouldn't be getting looked at if there wasn't a plan to leverage both comps to make some additional revenue. NRL aren't just looking to buy SL to hand out money, they obviously have some thoughts on what they could do with the bigger English and French clubs.