Draft

[SeanT]

It has got to a stage where the NRL is so uneven it's not funny. Yes incompetence does play a factor, but to have a 72-6 score line in a professional sport with an even salary cap borders on almost cheating.

I remember the RLPA said one time they will not support a draft due to putting the players choices first. All well and good but there is no way a competition can have only 4 teams competing for the premiership every year. The bottom 8 are getting worse every year.

Bring in a draft where the bottom teams get a go at the best young players without them being poached by the best teams at less money.

Teams who have inept leadership (Tigers cough cough), do play a part and will always make a.competition a little uneven. The extent we have now borders on the comical. Tigers have not one representative yet the Roosters have 6-8 minimum.

Bring in a draft. Might not improve everything but jeez it might make me want to watch the sport with interest.

 

[Telltails]

It has got to a stage where the NRL is so uneven it's not funny. Yes incompetence does play a factor, but to have a 72-6 score line in a professional sport with an even salary cap borders on almost cheating.

I remember the RLPA said one time they will not support a draft due to putting the players choices first. All well and good but there is no way a competition can have only 4 teams competing for the premiership every year. The bottom 8 are getting worse every year.

Bring in a draft where the bottom teams get a go at the best young players without them being poached by the best teams at less money.

Teams who have inept leadership (Tigers cough cough), do play a part and will always make a.competition a little uneven. The extent we have now borders on the comical. Tigers have not one representative yet the Roosters have 6-8 minimum.

Bring in a draft. Might not improve everything but jeez it might make me want to watch the sport with interest.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[Demps]

Heard Gus fired some shots on channel 9

 

[gallagher]

2 teams from last year's bottom 4 are in the 8 this year. I thing your looking for a tigers handicap to keep your interest going. Maybe ask more from your club.

 

[Merlot]

not a fan of the draft,but a transferre fee would help.age x 2000$ x year at club.the comp is in dire need of a shake up.boo hoo we got flogged.black n gold[n white] never fold

 

[Snidest 0]

It has got to a stage where the NRL is so uneven it's not funny. Yes incompetence does play a factor, but to have a 72-6 score line in a professional sport with an even salary cap borders on almost cheating.

I remember the RLPA said one time they will not support a draft due to putting the players choices first. All well and good but there is no way a competition can have only 4 teams competing for the premiership every year. The bottom 8 are getting worse every year.

Bring in a draft where the bottom teams get a go at the best young players without them being poached by the best teams at less money.

Teams who have inept leadership (Tigers cough cough), do play a part and will always make a.competition a little uneven. The extent we have now borders on the comical. Tigers have not one representative yet the Roosters have 6-8 minimum.

Bring in a draft. Might not improve everything but jeez it might make me want to watch the sport with interest.

It is a restraint of trade & will never happen!!

Google Terry Hill 1991..............

There is both legal precedent and common law reasons why it can't EVER happen!!

Unless the NRL financially underwrite ALL "rookie" contracts and the RLPA unanimously agree!

 

[Stevec]

The draft works in the Afl and the Nfl all that happened in rugby league is that a couple of players challenged under common law and won .Common law is not statutory law is just a precedent that could be amended by further precedent
However the NRL have absolutely no interest in fact they want a competition with about 6 elite clubs and the rest cannon fodder

 

[Chicken_Faced_Killa]

Disagree Some of the contenders now have come from absolute messes. We just don’t have the patience to see through a plan. We get half way through and look for short cuts. A draft doesn’t change that

 

[TV Ted Ellery]

Look at the scores this week: 48-4, 60-12, 42-6, 40-6, 72-6. The salary cap is working a treat. And there's obviously a surplus of talent in the league, so let's bring in another team.

 

[eyewondertoo]

A draft was tried in the 90's but only lasted a year,as it was challenged and termed as a restraint of trade.
Even if it was reintroduced the powerbrokers would find ways of getting around it.
Oh to be a rich and powerful team like the roosters- they certainly wouldn't vote for a draft.They don't need it.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

The draft works in the Afl and the Nfl all that happened in rugby league is that a couple of players challenged under common law and won .Common law is not statutory law is just a precedent that could be amended by further precedent
However the NRL have absolutely no interest in fact they want a competition with about 6 elite clubs and the rest cannon fodder

Terry Hill challenged the draft and succeeded in 1991 it has legal precedence. Nothing to do with the nrl court of law called it a restriction of trade.
Afl and nfl have never had lawsuits taken against then for the draft hence it ca happen

 

[Stevec]

Terry Hill challenged the draft and succeeded in 1991 it has legal precedence. Nothing to do with the nrl court of law called it a restriction of trade.
Afl and nfl have never had lawsuits taken against then for the draft hence it ca happen

When a judge makes a ruling then he's establishing common law if decades later a different judge who despite having to consider precedent makes a different ruling than new precedent is created .What ensures it won't happen is even the nrl don't want it so if both sides don't want it then it will never happen

 

[cochise]

Terry Hill challenged the draft and succeeded in 1991 it has legal precedence. Nothing to do with the nrl court of law called it a restriction of trade.
Afl and nfl have never had lawsuits taken against then for the draft hence it ca happen

Not all restraints of trade are illegal, it is possible the a draft could be found to be a fair and reasonable restraint of trade.

 

[InBenjiWeTrust]

The draft works in the Afl and the Nfl all that happened in rugby league is that a couple of players challenged under common law and won .Common law is not statutory law is just a precedent that could be amended by further precedent
However the NRL have absolutely no interest in fact they want a competition with about 6 elite clubs and the rest cannon fodder

💯 the NRL cannot organise even under 7s lemonade sale! They shall relocate and work from one of the deepest shaft in the PNG!

 

[GarryOwen]

The NRL could learn a lot from the AFL's CBA to be honest, but it will never happen without strong governance from the top down. PVL and co are a million miles away from this.

As gallagher says, the club just needs to be better. WT are below average in every single department (until the COE opens at least), and we aren't going to get anywhere until that changes.
The playing field is definitelty tilted in the NRL, but it's not impossible to build from the bottom. There are plenty of examples over the last decade - the latest being NQ, being overseen by a guy we once had on our payroll.
Plus ça change.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Not all restraints of trade are illegal, it is possible the a draft could be found to be a fair and reasonable restraint of trade.

Yeah, surely it depends the way they frame it. I bet if the NRL committed to expanding to a 20 team comp and getting more players more money they'd probably support it.

 

[Newtown]

It has got to a stage where the NRL is so uneven it's not funny. Yes incompetence does play a factor, but to have a 72-6 score line in a professional sport with an even salary cap borders on almost cheating.

I remember the RLPA said one time they will not support a draft due to putting the players choices first. All well and good but there is no way a competition can have only 4 teams competing for the premiership every year. The bottom 8 are getting worse every year.

Bring in a draft where the bottom teams get a go at the best young players without them being poached by the best teams at less money.

Teams who have inept leadership (Tigers cough cough), do play a part and will always make a.competition a little uneven. The extent we have now borders on the comical. Tigers have not one representative yet the Roosters have 6-8 minimum.

Bring in a draft. Might not improve everything but jeez it might make me want to watch the sport with interest.

it will be difficult to convince the NRL Mafia,

 

[cochise]

Yeah, surely it depends the way they frame it. I bet if the NRL committed to expanding to a 20 team comp and getting more players more money they'd probably support it.

The courts could actually support it as well, the expansion of the competition is one aspect that could make it a fair and reasonable restraint, also keeping the competition viable thus being able to maintain wages could also be seen as a fair and reasonable restraint.

 

[Strider]

If we had a draft system we probably wouldn't have had youth as great as Tedesco, JAC, Moses etc right? They would have been split up. We had such great players over those years draft would have made them worse not better IMO. Granted, it would be good to get a few young stars now.