NRL will ask government for financial assistance if season is suspended

  • Round 2 scheduled to go ahead without crowds
  • All options on the table, including suspending the season

The NRL will forge ahead with the season despite the coronavirus pandemic but will ask the Australian government for financial assistance to keep the game alive should they be forced to suspended the competition.

In an extraordinary press conference on Sunday morning, ARLC chair Peter V’landys and NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg outlined the ’catastrophic’ impact suspending the season would have on rugby league. With two games to be played in front of crowds on Sunday, the NRL will proceed as planned although league bosses admitted this could change by the end of the day.

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