Shannon Noll is desperate to land the NRL final gig after negotiations fell through with Tones and I. The Australian Idol star has launched an online campaign, repeatedly begging to be hired for the pre-game show, which has been left vacant by Tones’ exit. The 51-year-old kicked off his pleading by sharing an AI-generated poster that reads ‘Nollsie is available for the NRL grand final pre-game show’. ‘Ready and willing!’ he wrote in the caption alongside the image, which was shared on Instagram and shows him performing at the stadium. Noll also made a second post which showed him panning the camera over a wall of photos of previous grand final performers. ‘Looking at all the legends that have played at the NRL GF! What about me?’ he asked, referencing his hit song. Shannon Noll (pictured) is desperate to land the NRL final gig after negotiations fell through with Tones and IThe country rocker continued his campaign with a series of television and radio interviews, including on SEN and the Today show. ‘I put a post up saying I was available, just so that you know we wouldn’t have a nothing show,’ Noll told Today. ‘I didn’t expect it to blow up as quick as it did. I was just sort of saying you know, if you need someone, I’m free and I would love to do it.’The hitmaker said that if he landed the gig, he would like to perform a tribute to rocker Angry Anderson, who died this week. Noll said he would be keen to cover the hit single We Can’t Be Beaten, from Anderson’s band, Rose Tattoo. ‘He was a great mate of mine. He’ll be sorely missed. I thought, what a great tribute to him,’ he said. Noll said that he had not had a call from the NRL yet and was ‘not holding his breath’ – but joked he would cost a lot less than the $1 million Tones and I was being paid. ‘I think there will be plenty of money left over for grassroots footy if they got me,’ he said with a laugh. The 51-year-old kicked off his pleading by sharing an AI-generated poster that reads ‘Nollsie is available for the NRL grand final pre-game show’ It comes after Tones and I (pictured) denied that her decision to ditch a prominent gig at the NRL grand final was motivated by the song choicesIt comes after Tones and I denied that her decision to ditch a prominent gig at the NRL grand final was motivated by the song choices. The Australian pop star dropped out of the pre-game entertainment just days away from the match, with reports rife that she’d refused to perform her biggest hit, Dance Monkey, despite the NRL’s insistence she do so. On Wednesday afternoon, management for the 33-year-old released a statement indicating that the cancellation was over a clash with a gig date in the USA with rapper Macklemore, rather than a dispute with the NRL over the setlist. Peter V’landys, the Australian Rugby League Commission chairman, made his own statement on Wednesday, slamming NRL grand final entertainment as unnecessary and a waste of money.’We’ve been toying with the idea for a couple of years, of rather than spending $100,000 a minute over 11 minutes for a performer, putting that money into grassroots (causes) for underprivileged kids,’ he said.V’landys announced on Tuesday that the NRL will donate $1 million to fund underprivileged kids in the junior rugby league instead of forking out for a big-name replacement act.Negotiations with Tones and I ‘fell through’ ahead of the grand final to be held at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on October 4, with widespread reports that the stoush was over Tones’ song, Dance Monkey. Sources told the Sydney Morning Herald that the singer had ‘refused to commit’ to performing the chart-topping track, but Tones has since denied that was the case.