What was the point of an independent commission again?
NRL clubs join forces to take on rugby league independent commission
IN a major threat to rugby league's new independent commission, the 16 NRL clubs will sign legal documents tomorrow to form their own association.
The game's most powerful club official, Roosters chairman Nick Politis, will host a meeting of the club chairmen and their legal advisers in the Roosters boardroom to sign the documents - just hours before the official NRL season launch at its new Moore Park headquarters and only 10 days after the body was formed.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained a 39-page document which is to become the constitution for the organisation to be known as the Australian Professional Rugby League Clubs Association Limited.
It has been set up to ensure the clubs and long-time officials like Politis remain powerbrokers in the game at a time when we thought NRL boss David Gallop and the commission had a clear and political-free passage to do their business.
The formation talks have been carried out in such an undercover way that Gallop was not even aware of the new alliance until informed by The Daily Telegraph over the weekend. And it was only the fact this newspaper contacted Wests Tigers chairman David Trodden, who was responsible for drawing up the constitution, that the NRL boss got a courtesy phone call so he wouldn't read about it in the newspaper first.
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