NRL 2020
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NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
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@canefan As of today, Round 2 will be played behind closed doors and then the NRL will reassess the situation.
That was the Australian government's regulation, not the NRL's. I suppose at least Super Rugby got almost half a season in!
Yes. I was just answering the question, not the reason behind the NRL's decision.
The A-League is now following the NRL and wanting to continue behind closed doors, forcing the Phoenix to be based in Aust. It's all about the money not player welfare.
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NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
I wonder why the whole league has to collapse if the Warriors leave? Surely (and only if it's feasible) the other teams can continue on and just have bye weeks for Warriors games? Maybe the competition contract doesn't allow for any of the teams to be missing?
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NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
I wonder why the whole league has to collapse if the Warriors leave? Surely (and only if it's feasible) the other teams can continue on and just have bye weeks for Warriors games? Maybe the competition contract doesn't allow for any of the teams to be missing?
That would be idiotic. What if they had a Busby Babes scenario?
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
I wonder why the whole league has to collapse if the Warriors leave? Surely (and only if it's feasible) the other teams can continue on and just have bye weeks for Warriors games? Maybe the competition contract doesn't allow for any of the teams to be missing?
That would be idiotic. What if they had a Busby Babes scenario?
FYI: I don't know what a Busby Babes scenario is.
Also, did you miss the but where I said only if it's feasible? E.g. If it's feasible for the NRL to be run in Oz then I don't see why they can't run it just without the Warriors.
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
I wonder why the whole league has to collapse if the Warriors leave? Surely (and only if it's feasible) the other teams can continue on and just have bye weeks for Warriors games? Maybe the competition contract doesn't allow for any of the teams to be missing?
That would be idiotic. What if they had a Busby Babes scenario?
FYI: I don't know what a Busby Babes scenario is.
Also, did you miss the but where I said only if it's feasible? E.g. If it's feasible for the NRL to be run in Oz then I don't see why they can't run it just without the Warriors.
Busby's babes mostly died in the Munich air crash. Did ManU sit out the season after that?
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@antipodean said in NRL 2020:
NRL on brink of collapse as Warriors vote to return home: Report
League scrambling to fight the 'inevitable'
I wonder why the whole league has to collapse if the Warriors leave? Surely (and only if it's feasible) the other teams can continue on and just have bye weeks for Warriors games? Maybe the competition contract doesn't allow for any of the teams to be missing?
That would be idiotic. What if they had a Busby Babes scenario?
FYI: I don't know what a Busby Babes scenario is.
Also, did you miss the but where I said only if it's feasible? E.g. If it's feasible for the NRL to be run in Oz then I don't see why they can't run it just without the Warriors.
Busby's babes mostly died in the Munich air crash. Did ManU sit out the season after that?
Oh, I'll look that up.
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Conspiracy theory, but isn't this a good opportunity to run the Warriors out of the competition by making it harder for them to participate? If you wanted that result, continuing the competition and requiring them to stay in Aus makes sense, as if they say no, then the NRL and clubs can respond with 'OK, too bad, you forfeit, and then at the end of the year when nobody misses you, oh sorry, no more space for you as we plan for future possible pandemics or other major problems'.
I only say this because the first reaction of one of my colleagues was to say 'This is a great opportunity to use Covid as an excuse for getting rid of _____ and changing ___ to ____'.
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I second the vote to get rid of the warriors...
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I kind of Iike how the NRL CE said players' salaries could be slashed based on a clause in each contact around lost revenue. This is the flip side of their greedy demands for more money, profit share etc. I don't want to see anyone on the breadline of course, but boohoo if your $750k pa gets slashed to $350k for a season.
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@shark Christ mate, that's bitter. You don't like league players huh?
In general, no. They're a bunch of boofheads who'd otherwise largely be in low earning jobs, but by virtue of being able to understand how to play the world's simplest contact sport and build some muscle, they earn ridiculous money and as a collective piss and moan about wanting a greater share of the profits when the game is going well. The flipside to that is that when the game isn't profitable, they face a pay cut. Possibly a dramatic one. Proverbially, if you live by the sword you gotta be prepared to die by the sword.
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@shark they’d probably be tradies and still be making 6 figures.
If you want to come on here and spout off about them all being “boofheads” it’s probably best not to come on this thread at all. There are more players that stay out of the head lines than those that make them. There are amazing athletes in rugby league and to devalue that ability and their right to negotiate better contracts just because you don’t like the sport is kind of grumpy, shouts at people on his lawn old man-ish.
And I’m sorry mate but if you want to apply that Way of thinking to this sport then you kind of have to apply that to all professional sports.
I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be some sort of negotiation to keep the sport alive. Maybe lower contracts are what are needed, for a while. But doesn’t mean those players didn’t earn $750k pay cheque’s.
Just my take on it.
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Every sport has its share of Muppets. No different to the rest of society. But the proportion of idiots in the NRL is simply disproportionate. No other sport has the same amount of scandals related to sex, lewdity, violence and general dumb ass misbehaviour. So yeah it grates me that so many of these idiots earns vastly more than the average Joe, and they always want more. So am i sad for those guys that they may for a moment have to act like they're in the real world? Fuck no.
I don't hate the sport. I watch it on occasion, and I really enjoy some of the Aussie TV shows that surround it. But there's nothing wrong with calling out players if I don't like what they're doing.
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@shark well said..The NRL as an organisation is just proving what a law into themselves they really are ,when every other major sports comp is looking at the bigger picture ..they have put their own survival as a sport before possible catastrophe especially if a case comes out this move not to suspend this years comp..
The NRL have had 66 scandals since 2015, the fact they have integrity unit to oversee their own sport is an indictment on the NRL as an organisation..if they had a strong constitutional ethic that outlines behaviour on and off the field ..that could could mean a contract gets torn up ,or is a sackable offence , like any company ethic , it means you send a clear message to the players ..if you screw up , guess what , go and find a real job..
I can’t say I am the biggest league watcher, that’s not a criticism, it’s just not the game that rocks my world..
Put it this way, It does not live rent free in my head in the same way some league heads get precious about Union..
I do however get pissed off with much of our media who hold the NRL up as the greatest thing since slice bread, but refrain from sticking to the NRL but quick to tear strips out of the NZRFU.. -
@Steven-Harris that's media for you.
Sensationalism and inciting public outrage sells subscriptions. So therefore NZ media attacking an Australian sporting body doesn't have the same effect as attacking the governing body of our national sport...
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I see the government politely declined the opportunity to hand the NRL $200 million and gatherings of more than 100 are now out. So they'll be on reduced wages in empty stadiums or stood down for a while.
