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Season launch ditched amid NRL pay war - CtrlF.XYZ

Season launch ditched amid NRL pay war

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The NRL's play motorboat has been cancelled arsenic the wage quality with the players rumbles on.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the event, scheduled for Thursday night, has been canned.

It's the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth the play motorboat has been cancelled, aft the 2022 lawsuit was called disconnected successful the aftermath of floods that struck the Penrith region, wherever the motorboat was to person been held.

"Due to the ongoing corporate bargaining statement negotiations, the NRL volition not clasp a play motorboat relation this Thursday arsenic primitively planned," the NRL said successful a connection to the Herald.

"The NRL remains focused connected making affirmative advancement regarding the associated NRL and NRLW agreements."

Players had antecedently threatened to boycott the launch, with the cancellation redeeming the imaginable embarrassment of the game's stars not turning up.

In 2003, the Dally M Awards were boycotted by the players and nary subordinate of the twelvemonth was crowned.

Negotiations betwixt the NRL and RLPA are ongoing, with hopes of an statement being finalised earlier the archetypal lucifer of the play connected March 2, erstwhile the Eels play the Storm astatine CommBank Stadium.

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