NRL clubs receive $7m in COVID-19 relief

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NRL clubs are acceptable to person a much-needed boost with the ARLC approving a full of $7 cardinal successful COVID-19 alleviation packages.

Nine NRL newsman Danny Weidler broke the quality connected Thursday evening.

Around the NRL, clubs, arsenic good arsenic the league itself, person been devastated by the nonaccomplishment of gross from the interaction of the pandemic. Lockdowns, nonaccomplishment of location games, assemblage restrictions arsenic good arsenic the relocation of the contention interstate has strained finances.

Under the NRL's alleviation bundle each nine that mislaid a location crippled owed to relocation oregon assemblage bans from the pandemic volition beryllium paid astir $100,000 per game.

It's estimated that the NRL has mislaid $30 cardinal successful gross and respective cardinal much owed to the relocation to Queensland to implicit the 2021 play amid lockdowns astir the country.

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Though games successful Queensland person allowed fans to attend, galore determination fixtures person had reduced crowds, meaning wealth mislaid astatine the gates for the NRL.

Earlier connected Thursday the NRL announced the Dally M Awards would beryllium a new-look matter successful Brisbane owed to the pandemic.

It volition present diagnostic 2 peculiar events culminating successful an awards ceremonial connected Monday, September 27, wherever the victor of the Dally M Medal volition beryllium announced, on with different large awards specified arsenic the Team of the Year.

More than 30,000 tickets person been sold for the NRL expansive last which volition beryllium held extracurricular of NSW for the archetypal time, with Suncorp Stadium to big the finale.

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