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NRL 2020

Pain at the top: Greenberg set to take unpaid leave as NRL shuts

Once an imminent deal on player wage cuts has been finalised, there is no reason for the NRL to remain open.

  • by Danny Weidler
Players are aware that they will need to take a pay cut as the game rides out the current crisis.
Analysis
Coronavirus pandemic

The game will never be the same, but that might not be all bad

  • by Phil Gould
Crunch time: The NRL will make severe cuts to its operating costs to stay afloat.
NRL 2020

The NRL was spending $500,000 a day. That's about to be cut in half

  • by Adrian Proszenko
NRL chief Todd Greenberg and ARLC chairman Peter V'landys announce the indefinite suspension of the season.
NRL 2020

Clubs claim NRL tried to walk away from $29m funding commitment

  • by Christian Nicolussi
Newcastle Knights coach Adam O'Brien.
NRL 2020

'Not time to be choosy': Knights coach set to labour to make ends meet

  • by Adrian Proszenko

Insight & Analysis

The game will never be the same, but that might not be all bad

Phil Gould
Phil Gould

The effects of the coronavirus crisis will haunt rugby league for some time. But some good will come out of it.

Sport can be truly enriching and rewarding again – just not with money

Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Knox

Professional, glamorous, highly paid team sports in Australia are recent inventions, accidental outcomes of revolutionary changes in media.

Stadium rebuilds will make even less sense if sports get demolished

Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons

The Berejiklian government rejected the NRL's proposal to divert stadium rebuild funds. But surely the stadiums only make sense with football to play in them?

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Latrell Mitchell will welcome the extended break after months of intense media scrutiny.
NRL 2020

'He might have had enough': Cook fears Mitchell could walk away from NRL

The enforced break from the NRL might have some semblance of a silver lining for the embattled Souths recruit.

  • by Christian Nicolussi
All 16 clubs will be funded equally.
NRL 2020

NRL aborts plans to introduce 'differential' club funding

Plans to give additional emergency funds to those most in need have been scrapped after a backlash from richer clubs.

  • by Adrian Proszenko
Manchester City's Sergio Aguero is one of the biggest stars of the Premier League.
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NRL 2020

NRL clubs look to English Premier League for post-coronavirus shake-up

  • by Chris Barrett
Fox Sports is understood to be unwilling to make its quarterly broadcast payment to the NRL on April 1.
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NRL 2020

Fox Sports set to follow Nine and pull the pin on NRL payment

  • by Michael Chammas
Tyson Frizell has signed with Newcastle, yet his future remains in limbo.
NRL 2020

Frizell's Newcastle transfer on hold due to coronavirus outbreak

  • by Adrian Proszenko

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