The NRL and Channel Nine are at a massive impasse over the season relaunch, with the broadcaster considering that the season is over but the league pressing ahead.
Nine says that it now considers its contract unfulfilled and has blasted the NRL for wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.
NRL CEO Todd Greenberg is firmly in the gun, with Nine saying that the NRL had been mismanaged for years and was now suffering the consequences.
A Nine spokesperson: "At Nine we had hoped to work with the NRL on a solution to the issues facing Rugby League in 2020, brought on so starkly by COVID-19. But this health crisis in our community has highlighted the mismanagement of the code over many years.
"Nine has invested hundreds of millions in this game over decades and we now find they have profoundly wasted those funds with very little to fall back on to support the clubs, the players and supporters.
"In the past the NRL have had problems and we've bailed them out many times. Including a $50m loan to support clubs when the last contract was signed.
"It would now appear that much of that has been squandered by a bloated head office completely ignoring the needs of the clubs, players and supporters."
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