The NRL and its players have ended a messy two-year dispute after striking an in-principle deal that gives the latter a 37 per cent increase in pay.
The Rugby League Players Association cancelled plans to escalate industrial action over the weekend after crisis talks between Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V’landys, chief executive Andrew Abdo and RLPA chair Diedre Anderson and chief executive Clint Newton.
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