Overview
- Club chiefs met league bosses and voiced full support for the ARLC/NRL to pursue deterrents against the proposed R360 competition.
- The NRL will obtain legal advice on potential sanctions, including blocking defectors from re-entering the competition, with the extent of its authority still unclear.
- Rugby Australia and the unions of New Zealand, South Africa, England, Ireland, Scotland, France and Italy say players who join R360 will be ineligible for national selection.
- R360 promotes a traveling league from next October with six men’s and four women’s teams, UAE registration and claimed tax advantages.
- Reported targets include Ryan Papenhuyzen, Zac Lomax, Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Payne Haas, Jye Gray, Nelson Asofa-Solomona and Jess Sergis, as senior NRL figures publicly deride the venture’s viability.