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Then why did the AMNRL partner with them in the first place, and put out such grandiose press releases? Virtually everyone outside the AMNRL could see that the deal with Grand Prix was bad news at the time. FWIW I don't believe for a second that Niu has 'walked away' because we've been hearing reports for months that GP were upset with the AMNRL, but either way it's another example of the embarrassing, unprofessional mismanagement of the AMNRL that will continue until the current administration realize that the way they go about things is wrong.
I've not mentioned the USARL at all. The point is that the AMNRL yet again jumped head-first into something on the whim of one guy, promised the world and delivered nothing. This is not how you run an effective organization of any kind, let alone one so important that is supposed to be responsible for the development of the sport in the most powerful nation on Earth. You would think that the positive might be that the AMNRL would learn from something like this and maybe change the way they go about things, but experience says that instead they will just continue to operate within their own bubble and lurch from embarrassment to embarrassment until either they alienate everyone willing to work with them or Niu retires. Which is a massive shame for both the sport and themselves.
Because they have made countless grandiose promises and delivered nothing, their running of the national team is corrupt and a disgrace to the sport, their domestic competition is a shambles involving made-up teams, they have no board or organized governance structure of any kind and they have alienated literally every party that has tried to deal with them. They were so incompetent and corrupt that the majority of clubs took the drastic step of breaking away and forming their own competition, and still wouldn't come back even when the AMNRL attempted to blackmail their players.
Don't give me this bullshit about 'you're not based in the US'. People have tried that before and it's as big a crock of shit now as it was then, corrupt management is corrupt management whether you're based in New York or Timbuktu. Local U8s competitions have at least some semblance of structure and governance, the AMNRL is run at the whim of one man and his mates, it's an embarrassment to the sport and if anyone thinks that is an acceptable way to operate any sort of sporting competition whatever the level then they are an idiot.
Remove the current administration from controlling the national team. After that, they can do whatever they want.
No, maybe a couple of clubs would switch across but I doubt the leagues will ever merge because they have totally different ideologies and the AMNRL have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and incompetent in terms of how a legitimate sporting organization should be run. The USARL clubs split away for a reason, and unless the AMNRL are willing to totally relinquish power and involvement (which I doubt) then having the leagues merge would be a backwards step, and would result in the same problems that caused the split in the first place.
