Rugby League Players Association
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Oct 29, 2026
Warren LivingstoneHOST
Unbelievable.
Warren LivingstoneHOST
Kenny, where is the RLPA on this? Because they have to hang their heads in shame, I believe.
Warren LivingstoneHOST
I think they
Paul KentHOST
were sitting back looking once.
Troy GrantGUEST
Well, the tournament does have parity, Jimmy.
Troy GrantGUEST
The situation is it's an industrial agreement between the Australian Rugby League and the Kangaroos players at the RLPA negotiated.
Troy GrantGUEST
So that's the case between the nation and their players that we don't interfere with.
Troy GrantGUEST
And the reality is that the smaller nations don't have that capacity to pay that sort of money.
Tom BirminghamHOST
I am bouncing my papers and shuffling my notes as I prepare for one of the most original things that is happening in rugby league right now, and that is a show about all of the goings-on in NRL trade period, November 1.
Tom BirminghamHOST
Not an official trade period because Clint Newton and those do-gooders at the RLPA don't want to have a trade period.
Tom BirminghamHOST
They're worried about the bloody pressure on the rugby league player or the family having to uproot and move.
Tom BirminghamHOST
Listen,
Eddy SimpsonHOST
Clint and the do-gooders at the RLPA, right, have decided, in my opinion, in a short-sighted manner, to focus on player welfare and family
Tom BirminghamHOST
welfare.
Tom BirminghamHOST
Oh, you don't want to get uprooted and moved to New Zealand.
Ian PaytenHOST
I don't know.
Ian PaytenHOST
What I wrote about in the weekend was, on Monday, was that the Rupert are now run by a couple of guys who used to be at the Rugby League Players Association.
Ian PaytenHOST
Oh, okay.
Ian PaytenHOST
So Adrian Turner is the new CEO and Tom Simons.
Bryan FletcherHOST
I reckon it could be going up by, it's currently 11 and a bit, is it?
Campbell GrahamGUEST
Yeah, well, Ewan's obviously, he's our RLPA delegate, so he's actually all over it.
Campbell GrahamGUEST
I know now that he hasn't told me the actual number, but he's told me it's significant.
Bryan FletcherHOST
But has it been locked in?
Richard Shaw-WrightHOST
The World Nations get relegated and so on and so forth.
Richard Shaw-WrightHOST
What's interesting here is apparently we haven't had the warm-up games because of the collective bargaining agreement with the Rugby League Players Association.
Richard Shaw-WrightHOST
Which doesn't affect
Phil CaplanHOST
our teams.
AJ LucantonioHOST
I think they would have had to.
AJ LucantonioHOST
The fact that the RLPA came in there and was like, yeah, this doesn't smell right, suggests that there would have had to have been a lot of meddling there.
AJ LucantonioHOST
But for Canberra to pull their offer, does this remind you of a similar club pulling this stunt about six years ago?
Rhys SullivanHOST
Yes, definitely does.
Michael CheikaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We weren't allowed.
Michael CheikaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't know who it was, RLPA or...
Michael CheikaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I don't know, right? But...
Michael CheikaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We need to have a warm-up game.
MaestroHOST
And I think you've got to have that cherry.
MaestroHOST
At the end of it, put those international games in place.
MaestroHOST
Put more competitive, meaningful games into the international calendar, which is already a challenge because of the RLPA and their negotiations with the NRL about how many games players are playing a season.
MaestroHOST
That's part of the reason Cech wasn't able to get his warm-up game.
Ian HealyHOST
Yes.
Ian HealyHOST
Origin, oh, that Rugby League Players Association will get...
Ian HealyHOST
I'll tell you what, over or under, Heels, over or
Corey ParkerHOST
under... 5,000 flags, over or under.
Ian HealyHOST
Yes.
Ian HealyHOST
Origin, oh, that Rugby League Players Association will get...
Ian HealyHOST
I'll tell you
Corey ParkerHOST
what, over or under, Heels, over or under... 5,000 flags, over or under.
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