Rugby 360\u2014Everything you need to know about the new Saudi-backed rebel rugby competition<\/a><\/p>\nGould, as dry as ever, then pointed to the irony of rugby union once again being in the news because of associations with rugby league.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest the only thing that sells Australian rugby (right now) is when they get an Australian rugby league player to go across and play there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the only thing that gives them publicity as it stands at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018If you need the money that bad, go and do it\u2019<\/p>\n
Discussing the huge contracts supposedly being offered to lure NRL players, co-host Mathew Thompson joked Gould\u2019s next ten player negotiations at the Bulldogs would feature managers saying \u2018we\u2019ve had interest from Rugby 360\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGood luck,\u201d Gould responded shortly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t let the door hit you on the *rse on the way out\u2014if you need the money that bad, go and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked specifically about reports of former All Black and current Warriors star Roger Tuivasa-Sheck being offered $1 million a season by the new competition, Gould again was loathe to buy into the speculation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could well just be scuttlebutt, I take all of that with a grain of salt,\u201d Gould said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe (Tuivasa-Sheck) may have had an approach, but I don\u2019t know what his situation is with the Warriors, none of us know.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll hear some more names coming up in the next little while too I imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, batten down the hatches NRL fans, this is just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Never one to pull his punches, Phil Gould has offered some entertaining thoughts on the rumoured Saudi-backed Rugby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","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=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}