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The QRL is seeking to protect its own position in the hierarchy, reserving the right to lock out any other official body that might want to do something in the state to build and grow the game. More directly it's to stop the Queensland Cup clubs having the right to walk out on a comp controlled by the QRL and join an NRL funded second tier. A subtle difference between self interest and the interests of the game.
The implicit threat. All other parties better get on with it and form the commission or at the end of the year the clubs are free to leave and form their own IC without any concessions to News or the QRL. Also implying those holding out should concede their remaining demands ASAP or risk being left with nothing in the new regime.
I've made no secret of the fact I believe we don't need five major RL bodies (NRL, ARL, NSWRL, CRL, and QRL) to run all levels of the game in Australia. Not in a country this size, not in the 21st century age of telecommunications and jet transport. I believe the game should be run by one, or at most two closely intertwined bodies (top tier club comp and then everything else). Either way, arbitrary state borders and state patriotism shouldn't define our organizational structure. My preferred outcome is that ultimately the new IC will subsume the responsibilites and absorb the foundation structures of those major bodies still left from the old regime. As such I have no particular affinity to any of the existing bodies. My loyalty is to the game.
