Just around the corner from the Bateman's Hotel in George Street where rugby league was born in 1907, a small group of legends and entrepreneurs met on Thursday morning to put the finishing touches on a revolutionary $15 million proposal for an historic Kangaroos v Wallabies hybrid game.
The plan will be put to NRL boss David Gallop and his ARU counterpart John O'Neill within two weeks to stage the game at ANZ Stadium after next year's NRL grand final.When the game was mentioned in your Sunday column a couple of weeks ago, we had two corporations ring about hospitality opportunities the next day."
Ticket sales, corporate hospitality, international broadcasting rights and merchandise opportunities would deliver an estimated $15 million to be waved in front of the codes.
Players would be offered as much as $100,000 for the one-off appearance.
A handful of rugby league players and their agents have already been privately approached. In England, Billy Slater apparently told one of the promoters: "Don't start without me." And Darren Lockyer joked: "I could make a comeback."
The consortium organising the hybrid games stayed in the same hotel as the Kangaroos in Leeds on the Four Nations tour.
They believe getting player support is the key to making it happen because of the reluctance of administrators to even consider such an event.http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...worth-15-million/story-e6frf3ou-1226205948946
The plan will be put to NRL boss David Gallop and his ARU counterpart John O'Neill within two weeks to stage the game at ANZ Stadium after next year's NRL grand final.When the game was mentioned in your Sunday column a couple of weeks ago, we had two corporations ring about hospitality opportunities the next day."
Ticket sales, corporate hospitality, international broadcasting rights and merchandise opportunities would deliver an estimated $15 million to be waved in front of the codes.
Players would be offered as much as $100,000 for the one-off appearance.
A handful of rugby league players and their agents have already been privately approached. In England, Billy Slater apparently told one of the promoters: "Don't start without me." And Darren Lockyer joked: "I could make a comeback."
The consortium organising the hybrid games stayed in the same hotel as the Kangaroos in Leeds on the Four Nations tour.
They believe getting player support is the key to making it happen because of the reluctance of administrators to even consider such an event.http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/...worth-15-million/story-e6frf3ou-1226205948946
