Davo5 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 https://bit.ly/3iEswqF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark S Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Blame the salary cap! Whilst we are obsessed with paying our players the least we can, other leagues and sports are making their players wealthy, whilst giving them security after retirement. British Rugby League, where everything is a as we like it to be! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Nah - the cap needs to remain to help out the failures in the sport. Rewarding underachievement and failure is the way to success. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubby Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 A$100,000 (around £60k) is the minimum contract for an NRL 30-man squad player. So many regular first teamers at established SL clubs are below that figure I would guess. The RFL recently (2020) reduced the minimum a SL player could earn to below £15,000. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/rfl-defends-decision-lower-minimum-21940219 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Frisky Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 If he signed for the Roosters I wonder if he would live on Bondi?? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whippet13 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Would be very surprised if the NRL are not also looking at Wigan's Kai Pearce-Paul. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northamptoncougar Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 i hope he goes, develops and earns decent money, same with Pearce at Wigan and Gannon at Leeds (that kid could be special) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Picture Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Mark S said: Blame the salary cap! Whilst we are obsessed with paying our players the least we can, other leagues and sports are making their players wealthy, whilst giving them security after retirement. British Rugby League, where everything is a as we like it to be! It's not the salary cap, it's the lack of money in English RL. The lack of money is why the cap is so ridiculously low, and even at that some SL clubs can't afford to pay it. The NRL is head and shoulders above SL financially, that's why it pays so much better. Ditto RU. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark S Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 39 minutes ago, Scubby said: A$100,000 (around £60k) is the minimum contract for an NRL 30-man squad player. So many regular first teamers at established SL clubs are below that figure I would guess. The RFL recently (2020) reduced the minimum a SL player could earn to below £15,000. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/rfl-defends-decision-lower-minimum-21940219 £15K to get your bashed up week in week out and the left on the scrap heap with knackered joints, great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 10 minutes ago, Mark S said: £15K to get your bashed up week in week out and the left on the scrap heap with knackered joints, great. Yeah - but it keeps a level playing field for Wakey and the like. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo5 Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 25 minutes ago, Mark S said: £15K to get your bashed up week in week out and the left on the scrap heap with knackered joints, great. Yeap 15k is a pathetically low amount,play in the flagship of Notthern Hemisphere RL & earn less than a part time Lidl checkout worker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Daddy Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Davo5 said: https://bit.ly/3iEswqF Would appreciate it if you could label or name your links so I know I'm not accessing any dodgy sites 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled Wiganer Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Who is the player? It is a shame and a worry to lose players from our sport to the NRL. The question we should be asking ourselves as a game over here is how much can we afford to pay, not how low can we go to keep the poorer clubs in the league. We have tried to make a salary cap work, but it has become a constraint which guarantees that we cannot keep talent, and thus puts us into a slow slide into oblivion. Ditch it, and let the market decide. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo5 Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 20 minutes ago, Exiled Wiganer said: Who is the player? It is a shame and a worry to lose players from our sport to the NRL. The question we should be asking ourselves as a game over here is how much can we afford to pay, not how low can we go to keep the poorer clubs in the league. We have tried to make a salary cap work, but it has become a constraint which guarantees that we cannot keep talent, and thus puts us into a slow slide into oblivion. Ditch it, and let the market decide. Will Pryce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunbar Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Well, if this was a month ago I would have argued that any youngsters going to the NRL are not lost from 'the game' and it would be good to see them develop and would probably be good news for the strength of Rugby League as a whole and the international game in particular. Now though, I am not sure I can say that with real conviction. 1 "The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless." — Sir Humphrey Appleby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubby Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Just now, Dunbar said: Now though, I am not sure I can say that with real conviction. Don't think that's a requirement any more? Maybe wrong. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frying Scotsman Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 The NRL is rapidly becoming the only viable professional Rugby League competition in the world. SuperLeague is being forced to fill up with more and more substandard players, with there now being very few "bums on seats" stars who the public will turn up to see. That's OK.... if you want the game to be watched by people in Wigan, Hull, but virtually nowhere else. The fanbase will never grow if they are forced to watch the level of player currently in the League. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Dockhouse Host Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Mark S said: £15K to get your bashed up week in week out and the left on the scrap heap with knackered joints, great. We say we don't have enough players for SL, I say we do, but lose so many to other jobs, this is one reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM2010 Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 I don't have a problem with British players going to the NRL. At least it's not RU. If we end up with 15 - 20 players over there and can also produce more players for SL then that will help strengthen England. (I know we're all moaning at the moment but hopefully the WC and other Internationals will be back on from next year). Maybe the NRL can be convinced to invest in junior devlopment over here and create pathways for young aspiring RL players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unapologetic pedant Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Mark S said: Blame the salary cap! Whilst we are obsessed with paying our players the least we can, other leagues and sports are making their players wealthy, whilst giving them security after retirement. British Rugby League, where everything is a as we like it to be! If only our clubs today were free to spend what they don`t have. Owners could borrow the money, bankrupt the club, then decamp to let some other mug pick up the pieces. This could be a regular exciting theme, were it not for the onerous restrictions of the salary cap. They could maybe start signing some awe-inspiring RU stars like in the good old days. All those sound investments, made over decades, were the basis for the success we`re currently enjoying. What a state English RL would be in if our pro clubs had instead frittered away their resources on frivolities like junior clubs, schools, better facilities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 I bet loads of RL fans would be up for someone coming into their workplace and telling them they were getting a wage cut to £15k to help out the competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled Wiganer Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Davo5 said: Will Pryce Thanks. It is a tragedy for him to be lost to the game, particularly when developed by a club whose owner has deep pockets and could pay more. He looked really promising. Maybe he will return once he gets bored of years of zero COVID lockdowns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatmichaelsays Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Scubby said: The RFL recently (2020) reduced the minimum a SL player could earn to below £15,000. In other words, the RFL is saying that the minimum an SL player can earn is more or less the national minimum wage. How generous of them. "Now, go and warm-up in these State of Mind t-shirts so we can show people how seriously we take player welfare". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatmichaelsays Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 32 minutes ago, unapologetic pedant said: If only our clubs today were free to spend what they don`t have. Owners could borrow the money, bankrupt the club, then decamp to let some other mug pick up the pieces. This could be a regular exciting theme, were it not for the onerous restrictions of the salary cap. They could maybe start signing some awe-inspiring RU stars like in the good old days. All those sound investments, made over decades, were the basis for the success we`re currently enjoying. What a state English RL would be in if our pro clubs had instead frittered away their resources on frivolities like junior clubs, schools, better facilities. Or it could be a situation somewhere between the two binary extremes of "pay our players poverty wages" and "bankrupt clubs by borrowing money to pay for magic beans". If the salary cap is the thing that's keeping club ownership from financial armageddon, then we really ought to stop bothering. The players shouldn't be the ones that end up subsidising the pitiful commercial performance of the clubs and their ownerships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 He's at the right time in his life for an adventure; young enough not to be too tied down with the various responsibilities that come later. And if he shows signs of making the move to Australia permanent, his dad will remind him of the innate superiority of Blackpool beach over Bondi. 1 2 "We are easily breakable, by illness or falling, or a million other ways of leaving this earthly life. We are just so much mashed potato." Don Estelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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