Published: March 11, 2019
With the league’s standing at an all-time low the new season shapes as being hugely significant for the game’s future
Last week the NRL launched the 2019 season in Sydney with 16 club captains, a box-full of fireworks and one slogan: “A New Era”. Given the horrific off-season the league has just endured, it’s not hard to see why those three words are being pushed as the new campaign’s tag line.
There can be no sugarcoating it; the game has lurched from one disaster to another since the curtain fell on last season, as a string of serious allegations have been levelled against players including assault, rape and the filming and dissemination of intimate content.
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