It’s been a big few weeks in the NRL.
Amid the excitement of opening the season in Las Vegas this Sunday (AEDT), we’ve read about Papua New Guinea becoming the NRL’s 18th team; the North Sydney Bears coming back; the NRL buying the embattled UK Super League; the NRL setting up its own US Super League; and something or other about the season ahead.
In rugby league parlance, it’s been a dead-set proposal-a-thon.
Only one headline can consign all those can-do rugby league ideas to the back of the sports section and that’s an oh-no rugby league atrocity.
When the NRL first floated the notion of opening the 2024 season in Las Vegas, the first thought that popped into many minds was, “What could possibly go wrong?”
How cynical you all are. Apart from the occasional off-field indiscretion involving alcohol, drugs, urine, simulated sex with a poodle-cross and setting alight a teenager in an inflatable dolphin outfit, what else has happened?
Yeah, momma: Aaron Woods with an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas.Credit: Getty
Actually, don’t answer that.
What is the NRL thinking? Vegas. Vegas?! The ultimate adults’ playground some compare to Vietnam because you never come out as the same person who went in.
It’s been a big few weeks in the NRL.
Amid the excitement of opening the season in Las Vegas this Sunday (AEDT), we’ve read about Papua New Guinea becoming the NRL’s 18th team; the North Sydney Bears coming back; the NRL buying the embattled UK Super League; the NRL setting up its own US Super League; and........