After being forced to let go 85 per cent of his staff at his Sunshine Coast restaurant, Billy Moore said NRL players had to accept the reality of severe pay cuts to help the game survive financially.
Premiership coach Paul Green and dozens of other Cowboys staff have been stood down as the NRL club reacts to the COVID-19 crisis sweeping Australia.
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While NRL players try to protect their multimillion-dollar salaries from the game’s financial crisis, Intrust Super Cup players have suffered a double blow as the QRL puts all football on hold.
The world is a mess and the NRL isn’t much better. So let’s take a spell from all this virus talk and head back to the year 2000 to remember the Broncos who debuted for the club 20 years ago.
NRL clubs’ existence on a financial tightrope are about to be fully exposed, and all three Queensland teams could be pushed to the brink by the decision to call a halt to season 2020.
Disgruntled customers of a major chain have hit out at the closure of outlets across the state, arguing the same rules as bottle shops and shopping centres should apply.
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