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Twist in NRL's season-opening USA experiment - CtrlF.XYZ

Twist in NRL's season-opening USA experiment

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Paul Gallen has questioned if the NRL's plans to unfastened the 2023 play successful the USA tin travel to fruition, aft a reported twist successful the elephantine selling leap.

While Los Angeles has agelong been rumoured to beryllium the determination for an NRL season-opener successful America, the league is present weighing up Chicago arsenic an option, according to Nine's Danny Weidler connected 100% Footy.

Weidler believes a season-opening lucifer betwixt the Manly Sea Eagles and Melbourne Storm successful Chicago is being discussed by league bosses.

"LA is being viewed arsenic possibly excessively engaged ... and excessively overmuch connected determination for the crippled to beryllium played," Weidler said.

"They privation a batch of attraction connected it.

"It's each to bash with gambling revenue. The thought is to get into that American marketplace due to the fact that sports betting is going to go a large portion of that."

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Gallen enactment himself successful the shoes of the clubs.

"It's going to beryllium a large effort for immoderate clubs go," the erstwhile Sharks skipper said.

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"You'd deliberation they'd person to get implicit determination a week before. They've got to travel backmost and play the week after. Surely they'd person to beryllium doing it connected a bye play oregon thing similar that, a spare week."

The NRL is being lured by the information sports wagering is present ineligible successful respective USA states, including Illinois, of which Chicago is the biggest city.

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