Players of the third-most-popular professional sport in Australia may well be looking at being quarantined on a luxurious island. It’s all part of a bold scheme that’s being considered as a way to get them back on the field, and have them return to our television screens, during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
Like most sports in Australia and around the world, the National Rugby League was forced to cancel its entire February to September season due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 because it became impossible to keep players safe. This action very understandably threw the sport into a financial tailspin and on 3 April the NRL announced that its players had agreed to forego five months of their yearly income if games were unable to resume.
NRL Chief Executive Officer Todd Greenberg has said that he is determined to get players back in the game and word on the street is that the Innovation Committee, or Project Apollo, is seriously considering the island proposal, among several others.
David James, the Tangalooma Island Resort Manager, came up with the idea of hosting players on a tropical getaway. The resort is on Moreton Island, just off the coast of south-eastern Queensland, and typically houses up to 1 500 guests. James has proposed that NRL players live on the island and get ferried back and forth for games to be held in empty stadiums for broadcast.
Greenberg joked that it sounds like the Rugby League’s version of Love Island, a British reality show which isolates participants on a luxury island as they try to find their soulmate.
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