Besieged ARL commission (ARLC) chairman John Grant says he will not stand down despite facing a vote of no confidence from angry NRL clubs.

The clubs were infuriated when Grant retracted an earlier in-principle agreement to provide 130 per cent of the salary cap in club funding from 2018 when their chairmen met with him on Wednesday.

They reportedly called for his resignation in a letter.

However Grant said on Friday he had not seen any such letter and had no reason to walk away.

“We clearly had a glitch on Wednesday but I expect to be able to take this forward,” Grant told reporters on Friday.

Instead, he said he expected to be in the role for at least another five years and had already begun organising another meeting with the club chairmen next week.

“I think the relationships I’ve got with the chairs, while they suffered on Wednesday have been very strong,” he said.

The clubs have also called for constitutional change which would allow them to have two seats on the commission.

Grant appeared to offer an olive branch on that score.

He announced he had arranged for Australian Olympic Committee president and lawyer John Coates to lead a review into the current constitution, five seasons after the commission’s creation.

“It is an appropriate time to do a constitutional review, and we need appropriate people to lead that and John Coates is second-to-none.”

Grant also confirmed the funding offer that was agreed to in December 2015 was now off the table.

“Things have changed,” he said.

“The digital world has erupted with broadcast.

“We’ve got (player) participation issues that need to be addressed today.

“We’ve got different priorities that have come to pass.”

He said the ARLC wanted to work with the clubs on a new funding model, and that he was confident clubs would understand.