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Peter Badel, David Riccio, Nick Walshaw, in The Courier-Mail:
“We’ve listened to the authorities who are in a far better position than we are,” said NRL CEO Todd Greenberg. If the government gave us advice today to close the stadiums down we would have. The measures they’re putting together are precautionary measures."
“It’s going to have significant financial impacts on all 16 clubs and the game. We’re in unprecedented times. If they’re in financial difficulty we’ll keep them afloat. We’ll get through this together. All 16 clubs are in the same position and listening to the same advice and getting into an alignment for this weekend’s games."
“If players are presenting with flu-like symptoms, we want all players tested. The priority is around those athletes and making sure they’re not affected. We’re going to have to do specific work with the Warriors given their travel. Concern is about their athletes. There’s an individual plan for the Warriors & we’re working with them on that. Ultimately, if one of our players does get that and it means a club can’t play a game, we’ll deal with those situations. If that means we make games up or change the draw, we’ll do that.”
“It’s changed so dramatically over the past 24-hours and some of these decisions are not in our hands,’’ V’landys said. Once we receive the advice from the government this afternoon we’ll advise of the next step.’’
”The commission’s main focus is making sure the clubs are financially sound and what we have to do to make that happen,” he said. ”We are victims of circumstances here and naturally we want to keep the 16 NRL clubs financially whole. My efforts have been to look at how we do that with the funds we have available. Our management team has been working on the different financial scenarios and the implications for the NRL clubs of this coronavirus.”
”We are looking at financial aid right now and we will call on special means from the Commission if required,” he said. I am looking at financial grants to clubs to ensure their viability and make sure they meet their obligations. We don’t know the exact amount, that’s part of our analysis and what each club requires, but it will be significant given all clubs would require assistance.”
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“We’ve listened to the authorities who are in a far better position than we are,” said NRL CEO Todd Greenberg. If the government gave us advice today to close the stadiums down we would have. The measures they’re putting together are precautionary measures."
“It’s going to have significant financial impacts on all 16 clubs and the game. We’re in unprecedented times. If they’re in financial difficulty we’ll keep them afloat. We’ll get through this together. All 16 clubs are in the same position and listening to the same advice and getting into an alignment for this weekend’s games."
“If players are presenting with flu-like symptoms, we want all players tested. The priority is around those athletes and making sure they’re not affected. We’re going to have to do specific work with the Warriors given their travel. Concern is about their athletes. There’s an individual plan for the Warriors & we’re working with them on that. Ultimately, if one of our players does get that and it means a club can’t play a game, we’ll deal with those situations. If that means we make games up or change the draw, we’ll do that.”
“It’s changed so dramatically over the past 24-hours and some of these decisions are not in our hands,’’ V’landys said. Once we receive the advice from the government this afternoon we’ll advise of the next step.’’
”The commission’s main focus is making sure the clubs are financially sound and what we have to do to make that happen,” he said. ”We are victims of circumstances here and naturally we want to keep the 16 NRL clubs financially whole. My efforts have been to look at how we do that with the funds we have available. Our management team has been working on the different financial scenarios and the implications for the NRL clubs of this coronavirus.”
”We are looking at financial aid right now and we will call on special means from the Commission if required,” he said. I am looking at financial grants to clubs to ensure their viability and make sure they meet their obligations. We don’t know the exact amount, that’s part of our analysis and what each club requires, but it will be significant given all clubs would require assistance.”
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