{"id":120227,"date":"2025-09-05T07:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:10:04","slug":"payne-haas-holds-meetings-with-r360-rebel-rugby-competition-brisbane-broncos-nrl-bosses-hold-crisis-talks-news-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120227\/","title":{"rendered":"Payne Haas holds meetings with R360, rebel rugby competition, Brisbane Broncos, NRL bosses hold crisis talks, news, videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broncos superstar Payne Haas has reportedly held shock discussions with R360 officials, with the NRL enforcer set to hit the open market come November 1.<\/p>\n

According to Code Sports, Haas is the latest rugby league star to land in the rebel league\u2019s scopes, with a reported $2.2 million salary per-season on the cards.<\/p>\n

Haas\u2019 current contract ends at the end of the 2026 season, meaning he would be free to join R360 after next season.<\/p>\n

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However, the superstar\u2019s management and Broncos officials have reportedly been negotiating an extension, while at least one meeting with R360 powerbrokers has also taken place.<\/p>\n

10 NRL players have reportedly already committed to joining the breakaway rugby union competition, sparking rising concerns from NRL club bosses.<\/p>\n

According to News Corp, the threat of the R360 competition was a hot topic in Friday morning\u2019s regular call between NRL chief executive Andrew Abdo and club chiefs.<\/p>\n

Those in the meeting reportedly discussed methods to prevent players joining the breakaway competition, with life bans for players who break contracts to join R360 floated.<\/p>\n

Alongside Haas, Zac Lomax, Kalyn Ponga, Ryan Papenhuyzen, Jye Gray, Nelson Asofa-Solomona and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck have all been linked with R360.<\/p>\n

R360 powerbrokers reportedly have until September 30 to recruit enough stars to tick off their goals towards the competition gaining funding.<\/p>\n

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Those numbers are reportedly set to be reached, with Tuivasa-Sheck one players who is expected to sign on. <\/p>\n

The threat of R360 comes as the NRL continues its expansion plans, with the Perth Bears to join the competition in 2027.<\/p>\n

Then the following year, PNG will play their debut NRL season, meaning at least 60 more players will be contracted as rugby league professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broncos superstar Payne Haas has reportedly held shock discussions with R360 officials, with the NRL enforcer set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[40371,64,63,689,84912,9421,651,4428,82883,83832,85022,11101,85020,13213,763,85014,23995,85019,4466,26504,677,30092,13390,701,85017,85016,2625,760,85018,85015,85021,85],"class_list":["post-120227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-andrew-abdo","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-backs-teenager","tag-benji-marshall","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-broncos-superstar","tag-changes-complexion","tag-club-bosses","tag-cooper-cronk","tag-crisis-talks","tag-finals-series","tag-fox-league","tag-holds-meetings","tag-jye-gray","tag-life-bans","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-news-corporation","tag-oceania","tag-open-market","tag-payne-haas","tag-queensland","tag-rebel-rugby-competition","tag-rebel-threat-bubbles","tag-roger-tuivasa-sheck","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-league-professionals","tag-salary-per-season","tag-shock-discussions","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}