Nine Network accuses NRL of 'mismanagement' as 2020 season hangs in the balance

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The NRL comes under attack from one of its broadcast partners, who claims the league has squandered its finances and left clubs and players facing an uncertain future.

The Nine Network has launched a scathing attack on the NRL, accusing the league of financial"mismanagement" and breaking its lucrative broadcast deal.The Nine Network claims the NRL has wasted"hundreds of millions" that have been invested in the game

The free-to-air broadcaster took aim at NRL's financial management, which it claimed had left clubs and players facing uncertain futures.

 

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If it wasn’t a financial imperative the NRL would not be pursuing this.

Money Money it's what it is, when they said the NRL was going a head with out the supports bums on seats, my thought went straight to 9 and Fox Sports, pressuring the NRL, the amount of money being lost by both of them would be lots and lots of $.

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Trouble in paradise 😂.

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