The suspension of the NRL due to the COVID-19 crisis has set a financial strain on the league like never before.
And not all 16 clubs may come out the other end, particularly if the break stretches beyond three months.
The NRL has set September 1 as the point of no return, where if play is not resumed by, the season will be cancelled.
According to Fox Sports' James Hooper, the league opened their books on to the clubs and showed they had $104 million in the bank and $49 million in a deferred liability payment from broadcasters.
He believes three clubs are most under threat of being "culled" during the shutdown.
“It’s been mentioned by a couple of people at the top that this might be a chance to cull a few teams,” Kent said on NRL 360.
“There’s a couple of clubs under threat: Titans are under threat, Warriors are under threat and Manly are under threat. They’re the three immediate clubs.”
Hooper said it was irrelevant how wealthy the club owners were if the financial hit continued.
“I don’t care how rich you are, if you’re having to tip a million dollars into a business every year, you start to get sick of it,” he said.
South Sydney should be the ones to go due to ongoing salary cap rorting
As mentioned previously before the corona virus took hold the biggest issue in league was the salary cap investigation into the South Sydney Sombreros payments disguised as cafes to parents of their players
that will be back on again after this virus cools
watch this space
Kent should shut his stupid hole, the focus should be preserve the game and ready to expand not strip it down in this time of crisis