AFL great Jonathan Brown has roasted the league’s “opening round” concept for missing the point after the NRL’s Las Vegas showcase has already come and gone.
The news of the move first broke in September after the NRL revealed it would launch its season in the US, playing at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
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It left the door open for the AFL to come in an poach the northern markets, which have traditionally been rugby league territory.
“While you go on holidays, we’ll rob your house,” GWS Giants director Jimmy Bartel said at the time.
The AFL then announced it would start with the opening round to try for a Sydney takeover.
After the NRL spend the summer clogging the airwaves with the talk of Las Vegas, the AFL plotted to swoop in under their…
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