Both Illawarra-based clubs attended a crisis meeting in Western Sydney on Tuesday alongside more than 50 representatives from NSW tracks.

The meeting comes just five days after NSW Premier Mike Baird declared the state would become the first in Australia to outlaw the sport.

A five-person steering committee –  consisting of two members of the Greyhound Breeders, Owners & Trainers Association (GBOTA), two club members and one independent representative – has been formed to be the voice for the clubs and to unite them for their fight against the ruling.

Bulli Operations Manager Darren Hull was in full agreement with the approach.

“It has to be a united front from every which direction,” Hull told The Punt.

“They will be steering all the clubs and advising us what to do next through the people who they are going to employ. 

“The industry is going to have professional help from outside and as a club we are for working together in this difficult time.”

A team of public and government relations has been recruited as well as a legal team headed by former federal solicitor-general David Bennett QC.

The committee has also already began to outline to clubs the early stages of plan to combat the decision which Dapto president Tony Glackin felt had the case heading in the right direction.

“I heard everything I needed to hear. Our people here came up with lots of [issues of interest] they just about hit on all of them,” he said.

“It has been a big four days already but I think they have got to a good point already.”

While he was prepared for the battle ahead, GBOTA Executive Officer Brenton Scott was under no illusions about the challenge the industry faced.

"The challenge is enormous," he said.

"We have a premier who has placed his brand on this decision.

"He needs to understand that there is an alternative and that we wish to engage with him in speaking to that alternative."

Baird’s decision was based on finding from a Special Commission of Inquiry which discovered ‘widespread illegal and unconscionable activity’ in the sport, including evidence of animal cruelty, mass greyhound killings and live baiting. Scott outlined a “reform journey” as the alternative and felt the decision to can the sport entirely was unfair one for thousands of innocent participants and employees who face a serious threat of losing their jobs.

“The government had chosen to close without consultation an entire industry which has 15,000 participants and 10,000 employees, and makes an economic contribution of at least $335 million per year,” Scott said at the meeting.

"The part that is so difficult to swallow , there was not one piece of consultation with the people affected in such a devastating fashion by that decision.”