PVL 'absolutely open' to grand final bidding war

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NRL brag Peter V'landys says helium volition hold until aft the New South Wales authorities predetermination connected March 25 earlier deciding connected the venue for this year's grand final, admitting he's "open" to staging it astatine Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium.

Brisbane hosted the 2021 expansive last aft COVID-19 forced the full contention to beryllium relocated to Queensland.

Last year's decider between Penrith and Parramatta was played astatine Accor Stadium arsenic portion of a one-year woody betwixt the NRL and the authorities government.

It means the venue for this year's expansive last is inactive to beryllium locked in. Speaking connected Nine's Today, V'landys said taking the lucifer to Queensland is decidedly a unrecorded option.

"We're perfectly unfastened to it," helium said.

"The Queensland authorities came to our rescue during COVID-19. We ne'er hide the loyalty they showed us, and the assistance they gave us. We ever repay loyalty truthful if we tin instrumentality a expansive last up determination and reward the Queensland authorities we will.

"We person to look astatine our commercialized options, we person to look astatine what's champion for the game. We'll bash that process successful the adjacent mates of weeks."

New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet is facing an uphill conflict to clasp powerfulness connected March 25, and the NRL volition hold to spot which enactment forms authorities earlier entering into discussions implicit the venue for the October 1 decider.

"We're waiting for the NSW predetermination to beryllium implicit and spot who's in, and erstwhile we cognize we tin commencement the negotiations betwixt New South Wales and Queensland, and perchance different states if we person a Super Bowl-style situation," V'landys said.

"We'll ever bash what's champion for the game, and what's the champion commercialized result for the game, and see the fans.

"There's 4 teams present successful Brisbane. Who knows, the fairytale mightiness travel existent and the Dolphins mightiness marque the expansive last against the Broncos. It would beryllium cleanable astatine Suncorp."

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