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Marquee Players Good Idea or Bad?


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  1. 1. Would the Marquee Player system be a good thing forNRL?

    • Absolutely - we can keep the best talent in our game
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    • Never
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Support is growing within the game for a club marquee player allowance - which would sit outside the salary cap - to be brought into the NRL.

Dave Smith has consistently rejected appeals for clubs to be able to field one superstar player in their roster, whose salary would sit outside the salary cap.

However with the former banker's departing the game at the end of next month the idea, which was recently introduced in a form in the English Super League and is a key component of the A-League, is again gathering momentum.

The player contract regulation brought into the Super League in June is a tinkered form. Under their new rules only STG175,000 ($A374,000) of a nominated player's salary counted towards a club's total cap of almost STG2 million, no matter what his full salary is.

Under A-League policy each side is allowed two marquee players, whose pay is not included in the salary cap.

 

This is happening in Super League - finally after having been rejected twice previously.

 

Clubs in Super League, such as Salford and Warrington, have been keen to bring in a marquee player rule in order to attract top talent from the National Rugby League in Australia and New Zealand, as well as retain the best players amid interest from the NRL and rugby union.

 

 

If the NRL doesn't react will we see the NRL drained of its best players, not just to SL?

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Nope G,sadly Super League does not have the finance to poach NRL players. Indeed Super League may see more defections to the dark side were the salary cap is a lot higher and even then is ignored.

Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor but because we cannot satisfy the rich.

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The NRL has had a Marquee Player Allowance for at least 5 years. It is currently $600K per club and can be spent at the clubs' discretion. I don't see any need to increase it because most of the players who would be Marquee-quality are already picking up an extra $100K+ from Origin and Test match payments.

 

Often confused with the MPA is the notion of Central contracts with the ARL, along the lines of AFL or ARU. I don't believe these are necessary because we produce so many players of NRL quality that we don't need to beg players to play NRL. Has the game really missed Folau, Karmichael Hunt or SBW? Their former clubs finished 1st and 2nd in 2015 without them.

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