There will be 16 teams in the NRL, with expansion 'on the horizon'
Titans will be on their 26th coach since 2020, which is also their 'last chance' to get it right.
Players will be sacked for audibly swearing on the street or having sex with their partner in the privacy of their own home
Australia won't have played since 2044, having been reduced to one game every 8 years for 'player welfare reasons'
State of Origin won't have been played since 2021, with Mal Meninga declaring Origin officially dead after NSW wins a 4th straight series.
The mens and womens comps merged in 2035 in the name of equality, resulting in the deaths of 3 women in the first round of NRL 2036.
Tackles are outlawed, with 'holds' replacing them. Tackles around legs, bending backs or using shoulders at all are banned, with any contact to the head resulting in permanent retirement.
Souths will be on a ten year premiership run after medically retiring 5 members of their squad each year to sign the 5 best up and comers on $15m per season.
Footy outside the NRL will be non-existent, with the biggest and fastest 10 year olds of NSW and QLD being drafted into NRL clubs' recruitment drives.
Games are played in fifths of ten minutes, with a ten minute ad break between fifths. This happened after the NRL listened to the dumbest portion of the rugby league fanbase and stopped the clock whenever the ball wasn't in play. resulting in 4 hour games and scorelines of 62-46. To combat this they reduced games to 50 minutes, while introducing breaks to spread the game out for the length it used to go for.
Average crowds of 2,300, after the state governments stopped supporting stadium upgrades and used the money to upgrade everyone's TVs and couches at home, at the behest of the NRL. TV ratings are announced instead of crowd figures.