A new governing body for Tongan rugby league should be in place within six weeks.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this week dismissed the Tonga National Rugby League s (TNRL) appeal against its expulsion from the International Rugby League in March last year, after a long-running battle over governance, money and a threatened player boycott.
An invitational Tongan team upset Australia in November 2019.
Photo: Photosport Ltd 2019
IRL Secretary General Danny Kazandjian was pleased with the decision but saddened it had got to this point. It was completely unnecessary that it had to go to court he said. .the factual record shows unequivocally that, at every stage of this disagreement or dispute, we held out olive branches to the former Tongan Rugby League organisation (TNRL), attempting to work collaboratively with them and unfortunately at every stage the record is clear that they rejected those overtures.
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