Tonga’s famed ‘sea of red’ is a sight to behold for NRL boss Andrew Abdo as he eyes a changing landscape for international rugby league.
NRL chief Andrew Abdo says the prospect of Sydney’s strongest-selling Kangaroos Test in more than 30 years has reinforced theand a permanent calendar window for international rugby league.
Not since the 1992 Ashes, when 40,141 fans packed into the old Sydney Football Stadium and only a few hundred tickets went unsold, has a Kangaroos Test sold as well as this weekend’s four-game fixture. “We sold five or six thousand tickets on Saturday alone and that shows the fans are really keen on this format and the international footy,” Abdo told this masthead.
“We play a tough contact sport. So player well-being, rest, recovery, the length of the pre-season and the break, where we play Origin and how much football there is incredibly important. by a breakdown in talks with the leading Perth consortium behind the Western Bears bid and head office rejecting another seven NRL licence bids from New Zealand, Queensland and Fiji.Negotiations continue though with the WA government and bid teams from New Zealand’s South Island, while the introduction ofof the federal government and a $600 million funding pledge.
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