Less than a week out from the AFL grand final, Peter V’landys has responded to suggestions rugby league would soon lose its grip as the No.1 sport in NSW.
ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys has mocked commentary around the AFL’s invasion into rugby league heartland, describing the hysteria around the rival code’s footprint in NSW as “delusional”.
One of the code’s major talking points is the blueprint to get from 17 teams to a 20-team competition in the next eight years.V’landys believes a 20-team competition could result in a shortened season, with emphasis to be placed on growing the international game and a potential standalone Origin period.“If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be there. Our ambition is to make the competition as fair as possible.
“This is a once-in-a-100-year opportunity for us to take rugby league and change people’s lives across multiple countries,” Abdo said. “Gus Gould was the one that actually told me that when they took players there, kids don’t normally go to school in Papua New Guinea – they just avoid it. A lack of education is the beginning of the circle of poverty. If you don’t get an education, everything else falls apart. Once you take a rugby league player to a school, they all turn up.
“I’ve learned so much from working with Peter as a chairman,” Abdo said when asked about how he juggles the relationship with his chairman.
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