News Limited and the ARL are on the verge of relinquishing control to an independent body charged with administering the game under one banner. The new peace deal will be discussed further today and tomorrow at the annual meeting of NRL CEOs and chairmen.

Burraston was appointed in June last year to a committee charged with the responsibility of investigating a new organisational structure to streamline the game's administration.

Michael Searle (Titans) is the chairman and Burraston sits on the committee alongside Shane Richardson (Rabbitohs), Bruno Cullen (Broncos) and Brian Waldron (Storm).

"From a rugby league point of view, to have the whole game under one umbrella and one management makes a hell of a lot of sense," Burraston said.

"There's obviously a lot of synergy savings in doing that, and it would mean that any profits the game generates over and above its operating expenses would come back to the clubs.

"That would obviously give an injection of funds to each of the clubs, and there's clubs in worse position than us right at the moment.

"But at the Knights, we're a break-even club at best and we swing on either side of that ledger. That could be the difference between us being in the black each year as opposed to being in the red some years."

The Knights anticipate an operating profit or loss of several hundred thousand dollars for 2009, depending on the outcome of their compensation claim against the NSW Government for revenue lost during the western grandstand redevelopment at EnergyAustralia Stadium.

Since their inception in 1988, the club's accumulated losses are more than $2.5 million, but Burraston believed a greater share of the NRL's profits each year would allow them to chip away at that amount.

On a broader scale, Burraston said an independent commission would help combat the challenge presented by the AFL and other football codes.