Corey Oates Unpacks The NRL's 10-Year Ban on Prospective R360 Players

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:26):
So Yes, this Rebel rugby Union code is in the news.
They're calling it R three sixty. It's set to kick
off if plans go ahead, October next year. But with
franchises like teams around the world, I think they're supposed
to be a team in Tokyo and Australasia. Yes, And
they're in the middle of chying to get some big

(00:48):
names because once they start getting some contracts then maybe
the team, this whole thing will look legitimate. But at
the moment there hasn't been any one signed. They're talking
about big players from rugby league and rugby union, even
though it's a rugby union competition and the Broncos certainly
being the champions, some of their big names like Payne, Hears,
Reese Walsh are all over the news.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, there's there's plenty of players that have been involved
with it, even you know, Zach Lomax, who was probably
one of the more athletic players in our game, you know,
So that they're targeting players that they they probably know
they're going a response with from the NRL.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
But what's happened in the NRL have made an announcement overnight.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, so the Petty Landy's has come out. Who's who's
obviously the chairman of the Australian League Commission, and he's
come out and said any player who negotiates, signs or
enters it into a letter of intent, playing contract or
any other form of agreement, whether verbal or written, with
a football competition, league or organization not recognized by the

(01:53):
Australian League Commission will get a ten year band. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
So even talking, So if you're negotiating.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Negotiating, talking, yeah, in talks with any other. And I
heard that statement late yesterday also any other because everyone
and everyone they just thought it was this one. It's
any other.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, But that's just a broad sweep because you doesn't
want to say them yes, yeah, So what do you
think about that? Do you think players would now do
that if they thought that they couldn't come back to
the NRL after ten years?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well? Look, yeah, one thing I wouldn't do is probably
push his buttons. Over the years, everything he seems to
want and want to make happen happens usually when he
threatens something he follows through and look, yeah, for me,

(02:47):
it's kind of you know, I understand why they're doing
whether they're doing it for this reason or not. But
for me, it's like, if you're willing to go there
for the money, it means you don't you don't really
care about the game anymore, and you know that's pretty
discrediting to the game.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
But what about if you're at the end of your career,
what about daily Cherry Evans? What about your mate Reno?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Right? Yeah, if you with them, when you look at it, yeah,
because oh, would you take the money? Yeah? Me, yes,
because but for them guys, they've had a lot more
money in my life, in their in their careers. So
it may not be the money, that may be the experience.
But for me, if I was at the back end
and I was probably the chance of not coming back,
well I probably wouldn't be coming back.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
No, Well, Rene's not going to play at forty five,
Yeah that's.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Right, ten years whatever. Yeah, but I know that my
manager probably definitely wouldn't let me.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Say, right, And so what about it? What about if
you're a player in his prime. Let's let's talk about Painhaskers.
I was talking about five million dollars being the magic number.
If you were paying at twenty six years old.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I'd be very very careful because it's it's it's so
hard for a competition to just start and what details
have we had for this to start and last and
pain you know, probably should have a good four six,
five six years left.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
And there's talk about this being sort of like they're
comparing it to live golf and how that's changed the
way golf. But the thing is that we don't know
how this is going to be better than a normal
rugby there's no little changes. We don't know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Is it quicker, is it shortened seasons.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Those players on the field. There's no indicator that it's
going to be better.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, former Wallaby coach Eddie Jones reckons that it's exactly
the global shot in the arm that rugby needs.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
But what I think that's the confusion. Ye, yeah, there's
no details what it actually is. It's just another rugby
union competition and they've already had too many.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, and it's not looking that sweet now. If you're
a rugby league player and they listen, we can't tell
you what it is, but we can tell

Speaker 2 (04:48):
You that you're never playing rugby league again if you
say yes.