Rebel rugby union competition R360 is set to confirm their first ten signings in the first week of November.<\/p>\n
The competition has been linked with numerous NRL<\/a> players in recent months as they build towards a first season at the back-end of 2026.<\/p>\n It’s believed a player draft will be facilitated in the opening months of 2026, with the inaugural season to kick off in October.<\/p>\n Players aiming to be contracted reportedly need to undergo medical tests by December.<\/p>\n News Corp is reporting that after months of speculation, the first ten players will be announced next week, although it’s unclear if any of the NRL<\/a> names linked will be among them.<\/p>\n It’s believed Roger Tuivasa-Sheck<\/a> has already committed to the concept, while a host of others, including Zac Lomax<\/a>, Ryan Papenhuyzen<\/a>, Jye Gray<\/a>, Cameron Munster<\/a>, Payne Haas<\/a>, Nathan Cleary<\/a> and Kalyn Ponga<\/a> have appeared on the radar of the competition.<\/p>\n It was also believed that Mark Nawaqanitawase<\/a>, who is heading back to rugby union in 2027 to play in the World Cup, was on the radar of the competition.<\/p>\n It’s unclear how many of those players have engaged in conversations with R360 authorities, and those waters have been muddied in recent times by the ARLC’s announcement confirming any NRL<\/a> players signing with an ‘unrecognised competition’ will face a ten-year ban from the NRL<\/a> or other ARLC-sanctioned competition.<\/p>\n Add that to the fact that major rugby union boards from around the world have declared players participating in R360 will not be eligible for selection in national teams – effectively tanking the pursuit of Nawaqanitawase – and it’s unclear just how many NRL<\/a> players would consider making the jump across to the rebel competition.<\/p>\n ARLC chairman Peter V’Landys has regularly dumped on the competition, labelling it “out of a Corn Flakes box” at one stage, and suggesting player payments will dry up quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel rugby union competition R360 is set to confirm their first ten signings in the first week of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-238067","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\/238067","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=238067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}