{"id":229710,"date":"2025-10-21T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229710\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:28:07","slug":"confident-in-our-legal-position-peter-vlandys-defends-nrls-stance-on-r360-related-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229710\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Confident in our legal position\u2019: Peter V\u2019landys defends NRL\u2019s stance on R360-related bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) chairman Peter V\u2019Landys has hit back at critics of the NRL\u2019s decision to impose ten-year bans on any players or agents who sign with, or even negotiate terms alongside, the unrecognised R360 competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, unveiled last week, has sparked debate over whether the league can legally bar players from returning to NRL or ARLC-sanctioned competitions, but V\u2019Landys insists the policy will stand up in court.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Nine\u2019s Today Show, V\u2019Landys said the ban was both legally sound and morally necessary. \u201cLook, we won\u2019t do anything without getting it tested legally, ourselves. We\u2019re very confident in our legal position,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/afl\/geelong-cats\/news\/bailey-smith-geelong-cats-caroline-wilson-fines-social-media\/7a92b0d451a5f75a95738d7e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bailey Smith facing punishment from the AFL over his social media behaviour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, as the custodians of the game, have a very important duty to protect it, and that\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re going to do. Not only are we protecting the game, but we\u2019re protecting the players against themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fly-by-nighters\u2019 looking to exploit players<\/p>\n<p>The R360 project, backed by Saudi Arabian investors, has reportedly been offering lucrative deals to NRL players. But V\u2019Landys dismissed the venture as unstable, warning that players risked being \u201cexploited\u201d or left unpaid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are fly-by-nighters and they\u2019re going to exploit them and then [they] may not possibly get paid,\u201d he said. \u201cThey could go a season or two seasons without being paid and lose that prime position of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the NRL confirmed it has discretion to lift bans in exceptional cases, no framework for such decisions has yet been outlined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) chairman Peter V\u2019Landys has hit back at critics of the NRL\u2019s decision to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-229710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229710","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=229710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}