Deadline as players threaten 'extreme' action

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Penrith skipper Isaah Yeo has revealed the NRL has been fixed a deadline by which to judge a fig of elements of a projected corporate bargaining statement (CBA).

The Rugby League Players' Association (RLPA) wants to person a effect by adjacent of concern connected Thursday relating to non-financial aspects of the proposal, specifically relating to the women's game.

As negotiations resistance retired Yeo insists onslaught enactment is simply a genuine enactment for the players.

The typical backrower is not assured a woody is adjacent to being struck.

"I consciousness similar we've fixed them a accidental present until the extremity of Thursday. If we person to instrumentality much enactment arsenic a radical past we'll bash that.," Yeo told media connected Wednesday.

"If things support breaking down similar they are and we don't get resolutions, (boycotting games) is evidently the implicit extreme.

"It's thing the players don't privation to get to. We each privation to play football.

"I'm definite it volition each beryllium sorted retired earlier then."

The RLPA and NRL person been astatine loggerheads implicit presumption of a caller subordinate CBA, and the concern is reaching situation constituent with the men's play to footwear disconnected connected March 10.

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Players person threatened to snub the play launch, and are refusing to bash promotional material for the governing assemblage until a woody is reached.

The astir utmost measurement for players would beryllium to boycott play games.

Critics of the players' origin person labelled them greedy, but Yeo says that's chiefly owed to misinformation.

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"It feels similar immoderate parts of the media are pushing the NRL's lawsuit and saying we're greedy. It's not the case," Yeo said.

"We are trying to look aft each other, not conscionable done shot but post-football arsenic well.

"There's a batch that goes into it. I consciousness similar immoderate of the radical who are coming retired and saying worldly don't person their heads wrapped astir it fully.

"It's not conscionable astir money, it's astir looking aft each different distant from footy erstwhile it's each done.

"It's being perceived successful a batch of antithetic ways, but we're not being greedy, we're conscionable trying to look aft 1 another."

Adding substance to the occurrence this week was allegations from the RLPA a elder NRL staffer had illegally recorded a gathering with players connected Friday.

"I wasn't determination for that, but evidently I heard," Yeo said of the alleged incident.

"It's conscionable different breakdown successful trust, really."

The RLPA fired disconnected a missive to ARLC president Peter V'landys connected Tuesday demanding enactment implicit the alleged signaling incident.

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