In early 2021, Alan Jones met with Souths leaders to discuss their exclusion from the NRL competition.
It was late 2000 or early 2021 when radio king Alan Jones picked up the phone to South Sydney icon George Piggins and called a meeting.
Souths had just lost their Federal Court case against News Limited after claiming they had been wrongfully excluded from the new 14-team NRL competition.
Jones had an idea, and invited Piggins, South Sydney's lawyer Nick Pappas, and News Limited boss John Hartigan to his penthouse apartment in Newtown, inner-western Sydney, to outline his plan.