ARLC chairman Peter V’landys insists the NRL will be able to resume its season by the end of May, despite the New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian saying the government had not given the green light for the league to begin playing again. Asked on Friday whether the government had given approval to the NRL to resume on 28 May Berejiklian told the ABC the “short answer is no”. The premier said it would be up to the NRL to show health authorities it could resume safely. “The onus is on every organisation to get a health expert and make sure you’re compliant,” she said. “That’s a matter for them and they have to establish [that] with the relevant health authorities. The onus is on them.” But V’landys, also speaking on the ABC, insisted the league already has approval to resume. Last week the NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller, who has been placed in charge of the state’s response to Covid-19, wrote to V’landys, saying there was no legal obstacle for the NRL’s plans to resume playing, despite strict public health orders. V’landys said the league would demonstrate it could resume safely through the self-isolation of players, temperature checking of players and biosecurity at venues. “Not one player has tested positive to the virus, all our players have been following our self-isolation rules and not interacting with the community. [Our] social distancing measures have certainly helped. We’ve got six weeks to see how the infection rate is going. If the infection rate spikes well naturally we will [choose] another date.”