State of Origin is rugby league’s night of nights, with Queensland and New South Wales battling it out for supremacy.

But as the teams take to the field tonight, there’s a battle of a different kind taking place in the NRL as power swaps between the biggest names in sports administration - Peter V’Landys and Andrew Abdo.

Today, national head of sport Neil Breen on the politics of the NRL, and whether too much power may land in the hands of one man.

State of Origin is rugby league&rsquo;s night of nights, with Queensland and New South Wales battling it out for supremacy.
But as the teams take to the field tonight, there&rsquo;s a battle of a different kind taking place in the NRL as power swaps between the biggest names in sports administration - Peter V&rsquo;Landys and Andrew Abdo.
Today, national head of sport Neil Breen on the politics of the NRL, and whether too much power may land in the hands of one man.

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The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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The most powerful man in sport is about to get more powerful

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