'Lack of trust': Boycott escalates NRL pay war

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NRL players person started to boycott media obligations, arsenic the wage quality with the governing assemblage escalates up of the 2023 season.

On Monday, the Cronulla Sharks had journalists successful attendance astatine Shark Park earlier they were told that the media accidental would not spell ahead.

Several clubs person followed suit since, including the Dragons, who put retired a media telephone connected Monday morning, lone to nonstop different email that evening saying it had been cancelled. The players person seemingly taken a agreed stance against promoting the 2023 season.

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The escalation comes aft much than a twelvemonth of negotiations implicit the caller corporate bargaining agreement, with relationships betwixt the 2 sides turning toxic.

The Rugby League Players Association was near seething successful December, when the NRL announced the caller wage headdress for 2023 without the blessing of the players.

Speaking connected SEN past week, RLPA committee subordinate and Melbourne Storm guardant Christian Welch labelled the process 'really frustrating'

"Fourteen months ago, we tried getting the shot rolling connected fiscal accusation and trying to get requests to the NRL," helium said.

"There's been a existent deficiency of spot betwixt the 2 parties which has been truly disappointing due to the fact that we're truly not adjacent to an statement astatine all."

He went connected to accidental that helium didn't judge the NRL were taking the RLPA seriously.

"We're not asking for thing unreasonable, which has been truly frustrating.

"We conscionable privation to get connected with our jobs and play footy."

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