earl
Well-known member
I reckon this can be handled really easily.
1\. Set a cap on payments to any player under the age of 18.
2\. Institute a draft for any player who is a free agent. The player names their price and the first club from the lowest placed club up who meets their payment gets the player. If the salary isn't met then they go back to the draft and they have to decrease their price. The process continues until they get picked up.
3\. The salary cap gets managed via some objective salary amount. Something like a SOO player is worth 500K and so on. There can be some leeway here between the NRL and the clubs.
That takes away the obvious scams with players leaving clubs and ending up elsewhere. The only real problem is point 1 because that is where clubs will try and scam players but when this happens it should hopefully be more transparent and the NRL needs to come down hard on it. It's also less likely to cause an issue because heaps of kids don't come good.
1\. Set a cap on payments to any player under the age of 18.
2\. Institute a draft for any player who is a free agent. The player names their price and the first club from the lowest placed club up who meets their payment gets the player. If the salary isn't met then they go back to the draft and they have to decrease their price. The process continues until they get picked up.
3\. The salary cap gets managed via some objective salary amount. Something like a SOO player is worth 500K and so on. There can be some leeway here between the NRL and the clubs.
That takes away the obvious scams with players leaving clubs and ending up elsewhere. The only real problem is point 1 because that is where clubs will try and scam players but when this happens it should hopefully be more transparent and the NRL needs to come down hard on it. It's also less likely to cause an issue because heaps of kids don't come good.
