R360

Roundtable said:
Your right Lefty they would have got legal advice. But evey company that has a commercial agreement challeged at court and loses has had legal advice when drafting the agreement. It certainly doesnt mean the NRL on 100% solid ground.

Many things are extremely grey in commercial law. The players arent under awards, but still have rights. Most highly paid positions are outside awards but have protections. NRL is just manuevering it seems trying to scare players.
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Yeh, it’s purely fear mongering.

NRL essentially de-registers them if they leave. And they need to be registered again to play. Which will be reviewed case by case.

If a Cleary or Haas got signed up for a year and it went belly up, PVL would be on his knees begging them to come back to NRL.

Jye Gray would probably be told to go get effed.

Roosters would be sweet to sign anybody.

It’s purely to add some doubt into the players mind. I don’t think too many will be calling their bluff. More due to the uncertainty.

NAS or RTS would go and have no concerns about getting another gig in NRL. But it could be a deterrent for Gray if things don’t work out. There’s a lot that could go wrong with R360 and no assurance it even gets up and running.

Bye Round/ James Graham was basically saying that players would almost need to get their money up front to make the risk worthwhile otherwise they’ll waste the whole season, and it could fall over and they’ll end up with no club, no wage for 2026 and no R360. And I can’t see the powerbrokers of this comp paying wages before a ball is kicked.
 
The whole thing is a storm in a teacup. I’m sure all the rumoured players won’t go, meaning it might be one or two … probably older players who want a final payout. Can’t believe how much airtime and reaction it’s getting in the media.

Also don’t see how it could be a big money spinner for any of the investors. There won’t be any astronomical tv right deals for this, I don’t think.
 
Good overview of R360 here from a non-Australian, non-NRL focused perspective.

Sounds like even more of a disaster waiting to happen than I'd realized. Players will be signed by the league, not a specific team and get drafted IPL-style. But given it isn't a week-to-week competition (there are only 8 games a year?!), they won't need to relocate, and will just fly into camp for a week at a random city around the world.

Outside of an astronomical paycheck, why would any decent player sign up to play 8 games a year, in a scenario where they barely even have any club'mates' because you live all over the world, and lock themselves out of state/national representation? And why would anyone watch this even if they got big players - there's no built-in team loyalty, and the standard of play will be really low because the teams barely play together.

James is right - storm in a teacup.
 
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