ARLC chair Peter V’landys is confident the NRL will go back to a regular season in 2021.

Speaking on SEN Sydney, V’landys said that despite COVID-19 protocols causing havoc on this year’s season, the NRL was prepared.

“We’re going to go back to normal next season,” V’landys said.

“We’ve experienced COVID, we know how to handle COVID, and I don’t think the protocols will be as strict (in 2021).

“As you said earlier, there’s now a possibility of a vaccine, and that changes the whole thing completely.

“If the vaccine doesn’t come through and we have to live through COVID, it all depends on the community infections, and we always base our decisions on the data.

“In Australia, we’re very lucky that community infections are zero, and while they’re zero, we can live our lives pretty normally.