The thing about this type of dialogue is how far we go before the club needs to be involved. I am not against the club's involvement in anyway but I counsel that plans need to be drawn-up and presented in such a way that the essence of such ideas are not altered too much. Remember we are dealing with a commercial enterprise, and a somewhat bruised one at that.
The NRL are an unknown quantity from our point of view too as they are, to all intensive purposes, "the club" but are not the on-the-ground presence ... and that needs to be considered. An approach to the NRL goes through Annesley or a direct approach to the NRL? That in itself is worthy of debate. I vote for the latter option, for what its worth