Wigan Warriors CEO Kris Radlinski says clubs 'need to do things differently' to grow the game and help it break into new markets
Wigan Warriors CEO Kris Radlinski says clubs 'need to do things differently' to grow the game and help it break into new marketsmatch to the United States for the first time and join the Australian NRL’s round in Las Vegas next year.
More than 40,000 fans watched Manly Sea Eagles defeat South Sydney and the Sydney Roosters beat Brisbane Broncos in March at the home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders, as part of a four-day rugby league festival. Now the Australasian competition wants to enhance the event with a Super League fixture, with both Wigan and Warrington eager to be involved.understands the English clubs are in negotiations for a historic first Super League game on American soil.
“We want it to happen. I’m a firm believer we need to do things differently in order to grow. The NRL have been fantastic with me through the process and when I got a positive response in the first place, Warrington where the first club I reached out to. “Things people don’t realise like the obligations that we need to do for Super League – the branding on the pitch, the balls we used, the pads on the posts – it’ll be a completely new operation.
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