3rd Party Payment - Under Review, at last!

[tiger_one]

From: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/nrl-in-the-process-of-third-party-payment-review-20151014-gk92dt.html
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"…....... While third party payments must be declared to the NRL, they have never been made public. Registered third party payments have increased in the past three years, with payments to players uncapped. Basic payments in the salary cap total $5.5 million for each club's top 25 players. There are grants such as a $600,000 marquee player allowance and $100,000 motor vehicle allowance which clubs are allowed to spend on top of the salary cap."

This clarifies what presently can be claimed etc but maybe there will be more equity after this review - otherwise the integrity of the Salary Cap across the board for all clubs is at risk.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

Sounds a bit more like they are just concentrating on making them more transparent
And available. I hope it's more than that as it won't make much difference.
They should be banned, as they only really suit the richer clubs.

 

[supercoach]

TPA'S have defeated one of the main purposes of having a salary cap and that is to create a level playing field. Some teams because of geographical location will always be able to generate more TPA'S than others so there goes the level playing field. You will get people like Gus Gould jumping on the soap box and preaching the line, "you need to bring the weak clubs up to the level of the strong rather than pull the strong down to the weak", and in theory that has some merit but in practice never works.

Its a catch 22, the weaker clubs need success on the field to generate TPA'S and to get success on the field they need TPA'S, so the strong get stronger and weak get weaker.

The system needs a over haul big time, the game needs TPA'S but it has to be a fairer process than it is now

 

[Pedro_m]

Any person with 1/2 a brain can see it's a total rort. The roosters have the nerve to claim they are 100k under the cap when everyone knows they are over 1 million above it. The broncos old CEO resigns when the nrl catch them out but they can't question him because he now has nothing to do with the nrl. In my opinion the nrl should handle player payments and not the clubs and monitor their bank accounts.(if you work in a gold mine the company monitors your financials for 5yrs after you leave the job just incase you stole something, the nrl is a multimillion company aswell.)

 

[Tiger_Watto]

This will be interesting… I'd say the push is to not effect the TPA, but to make them more transparent.

It will be interesting to hear the RLPA view on this.

Hopefully this will also put to rest the debate about players as Employees or Contractors!

 

[cunno]

Any person with 1/2 a brain can see it's a total rort. The roosters have the nerve to claim they are 100k under the cap when everyone knows they are over 1 million above it. The broncos old CEO resigns when the nrl catch them out but they can't question him because he now has nothing to do with the nrl. In my opinion the nrl should handle player payments and not the clubs and monitor their bank accounts.(if you work in a gold mine the company monitors your financials for 5yrs after you leave the job just incase you stole something, the nrl is a multimillion company aswell.)

You are right the hypocrisy is a bit much, couple this with things like referee standards and other deficiencies and it makes you wonder how it continues, I guess it gets down to supporters and members keep coming back either in person to games or viewing/listening on tv or radio plus consortiums seemingly wanting to add teams to the comp and there is a situation where the rorts/deficiencies continue due to the games popularity.

 

[jadtiger]

Unfortunately a true "level playing field" will never happen and it has never been the case in any major sporting competition there are always ways to defeat it.Lets hope that it will become more transparent and equitable than it is now.