{"id":407358,"date":"2026-01-12T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:00:10","slug":"r360-boss-says-rebel-league-didnt-target-any-nrl-players-mike-tindall-zac-lomax-ryan-papenhuyzen-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/407358\/","title":{"rendered":"R360 boss says rebel league didn\u2019t target any NRL players, Mike Tindall, Zac Lomax, Ryan Papenhuyzen, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R360 boss Mike Tindall has broken his silence over claims the breakaway union competition lured under contract NRL players to R360.<\/p>\n<p>The rebel league has copped plenty of heat from the NRL, notably ARLC chairman Peter V\u2019landys, but Tindall says R360 have done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The only place to stream every match of the 2025\/26 KFC BBL LIVE is on FOX CRICKET, available on Kayo Sports. | New to Kayo? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768163050_383_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Instead, Tindall revealed a bombshell to The Australian that players have approached them to discuss an alternative career option as the rigours of the NRL season are too demanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t target anyone,\u201d Tindall told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/sport\/nrl-players-threw-themselves-at-breakaway-league-reveals-mike-tindall\/news-story\/ed2ca32460ebcadae09af7cbe3123bcf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNRL players and their agents approached us. We didn\u2019t go after them. We\u2019re a rugby union competition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNRL players are fine athletes, but only those who could play in the back three could make the transition. Sam Burgess went from South Sydney to the England team (for the 2015 Rugby World Cup), and he didn\u2019t find it easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comments are surprising given the several players who have been linked to a R360 code switch.<\/p>\n<p>Zac Lomax and Ryan Papenhuyzen were the main two, with both players granted early releases from their NRL deals with the Eels and Storm respectively. <\/p>\n<p>However, the duo\u2019s plans were curtailed as soon after, the R360 start date was postponed from 2026 to 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Lomax is now reportedly angling for an NRL return with the Storm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"R360 boss Mike Tindall has broken his silence over claims the breakaway union competition lured under contract NRL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,215962,53276,47355,761,762,158,150008,2621,2619,16205,43455,85,177214,22332],"class_list":["post-407358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breakaway-union-competition","tag-code-switch","tag-mike-tindall","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-peter-v","tag-rebel-league","tag-rugby-union-competition","tag-rule-changes","tag-sam-burgess","tag-sports","tag-union-competition","tag-zac-lomax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407358","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=407358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}