NRL supremo Peter V\u2019landys admits State of Origin coming to England is \u2018absolutely\u2019 part of the competition\u2019s plan for global domination in the future.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s premiere competition is set to sit down with officials from Super League and the Rugby Football League over the coming days with a view to finally thrashing out a deal that would see the NRL invest in the English game \u2013 potentially leading to a major transformation of the game\u2019s fortunes in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n
And as part of the plan, it could lead to the jewel in the NRL\u2019s crown, the annual three-match Origin series, being taken on the road and potentially coming to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
London would be an obvious destination, with Queensland and New South Wales potentially set to compete against one another on the opposite side of the world \u2013 with V\u2019landys admitting such a move was \u2018on the plan\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely. That\u2019s on the plan,\u201d he told reporters in Australia when asked if Origin in England was on the radar. \u201cIf we make an investment in Super League, we will be bringing NRL competition games to London, absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NRL are in talks about what they hope will be a record broadcast deal which begins next year, which would further revolutionise the competition\u2019s prospects on the financial front.<\/p>\n
And V\u2019landys also admitted that Origin could be hived off and sold in a separate package to the NRL league games, in a similar move to how Premier League football operates in the United Kingdom, with different broadcasters having different aspects of a deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to look at all formats and that\u2019s one of them,\u201d V\u2019landys said. \u201cThe jewel in the crown is State of Origin and there\u2019s other channels (interested).<\/p>\n
\u201cIdeally we\u2019d like it all in the one (package), but if you look at the NFL and how they do it, they\u2019re very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NRL supremo Peter V\u2019landys admits State of Origin coming to England is \u2018absolutely\u2019 part of the competition\u2019s plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}