{"id":661042,"date":"2026-05-10T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T03:08:09","slug":"details-emerge-from-meeting-between-bears-and-nrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661042\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge from meeting between Bears and NRL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL<\/a> is set to hand the Perth Bears<\/a> tremendous benefits after a meeting with two Bears board members.<\/p>\n

This comes after the PNG Chiefs<\/a> were able to lure Jarome Luai<\/a> and Alex Johnston<\/a> to join the club from the 2028 season.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement with the Australian government and the NRL<\/a>, the club has the ability to offer tax-free salaries to attract players to Papua New Guinea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

James Bracey and Daniel Dickson, who are Perth Bears<\/a> board members, had a meeting with Peter V’landys, and they could be in a better position to sign players.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald revealed there are serious discussions led by the Rugby League<\/a> Players’ Association to help the expansion side attract players.<\/p>\n

There are serious conversations about potentially getting salary cap concessions.<\/p>\n

The meeting took place on Monday afternoon, before Paul Gallen’s “done nothing” comment on Nine’s 100% Footy that night, suggesting the Bears are struggling to promote the franchise.<\/p>\n

The idea that the board members and V’landys floated around with was to tap into the dollars of Perth’s business community.<\/p>\n

This would allow the Bears a legitimate opportunity to sign a marquee player.<\/p>\n

The suggestion of struggle to promote the Bears from Gallen has some legitimacy, given that Bears assistant coach Ben Gardiner<\/a>, who is set to become the head coach of the club from the 2029 season, wore a Samoan national team polo on live TV and filmed interviews.<\/p>\n

Gardiner, as the head coach of the Samoan side, organised media interviews to raise awareness and sponsorship for Samoa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bears officials have told him they didn’t want him involved in the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL is set to hand the Perth Bears tremendous benefits after a meeting with two Bears board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-661042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661042","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=661042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}