They are great manipulators of the cap. That isn’t cheating. It’s smart.
Come on bro ! That’s just playing scrabble with the same letters .
They’re cheating ! Like how google pays next to no tax in Australia or any big company. Sure it’s good accounting , but it’s also because the government chooses not legislate and change laws because of lobbying , back scratching etc.
The NRL should simply have 2 things .
1. Salaries made public like just about every other professional sport with a salary cap.
2. Have a cap that’s akin to American sports ie. if teams like the roosters go over it , they can but for every dollar over the cap they spend there’s a tax , with all the proceedings divided up amongst the teams who didn’t go over the cap .
That’s how NBA works , MLB , NFL etc.
The problem is all the cloak and dagger , 250k par 4s , 21 year olds driving around in Lamborghinis that no one knows who paid for etc.
Sure you can say don’t hate the player hate the game , but people had the exact opposite view about drug cheating in cycling ie. everyone was doing it , and it became a case of the best cheat wins ie. Lance Armstrong . But that ruins the integrity of the sport … which I feel clubs like roosters do to NRL .
Sorry and a draft … the draft would go a long way to parity in the nrl