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The NRL are facing serious questions over their savings for certain rainy day funds.

It has emerged that they have failed to cough up the cash for the last two years worth of retirement funds.

This year’s amount has yet to be paid, and there are questions over what has happened to an amount set aside to help the NRL clubs should they fall on hard times.

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All the while, the NRL is spending an eye-watering amount daily for its operational costs.

“It’s another example of financial mismanagement at the NRL and how they mislead us as a public,” said Daily Telegraph journalist Paul Kent on Fox League Live.

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In his Saturday column Kent wrote that: “Limousines and hire cars, bloated staff numbers on bloated wages, unnecessary costs like the millions to stage February’s Nines in Perth, where there are no plans for expansion, which so no real gain, gifts of diamond rings” were what the NRL were frivolously wasting cash on.

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He continued on Fox League Live: “They failed to pay $5m in 2018, same again in 2019, and then this year. Add that up and it’s $15m.

“There’s also the stressed clubs fund where they’ve failed to pay which is $6m, all together that’s $21m which they were obligated to pay.

“The minute you try to make them accountable, you’re instantly betrayed as a nark or a critic. “This has been going on for years the NRL, for whatever reason, are not up front to their constituents which is the fans, who deserve to know what the game is.

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“Head office is spending $182m, that’s nearly half a million per day. Less people are playing the game, ratings are stagnant, crowds are stagnant what are they spending their money on?”

The NRL and its clubs will meet on Monday morning to discuss the game’s finances.