cochise
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@ said:@ said:@ said:@ said:The fact that this thread is 95 pages long in April proves what a joke the NRL is, if they actually did what other sports do and have all this crap AFTER the season, you know October and November when we should be talking about this crap in the off season>?
I could just imagine the NFL doing this.. Tom Brady has signed with the Green Bay Packers for 2019 but meanwhile is still playing for the pats, so green bays Aron Rogers is looking for a NFL team to sign too and 31 other teams are after him.
Could you seriously imagine American sport doing this at the start of a season??
NFL is not really a good example to use in this regard, the NFL season is 5 months long, NRL season is up to 9 months for some players. We do need a better system but an October/ November signing period will not work when many players are playing international football.
Season length has nothing to do with it, baseball play 162 games a year and do the smart thing and have free agency when?? you guess it when the season ends in October!!! so they have free agency signings happen in November ready for spring training in March/. their is also international baseball too
NRL is run by armatures there are, and dont give me that crap about players wanna know where they wanna be with 7 months notice, because not us real life people who work jobs don't get paid 800k a year to know where we will be in 7 months time either
Don't they have a pre-contract window in EPL from January, for players to sign deals for the next season while seeing out the current one with their clubs? That league seems to go alright.
We definitely need a signing period, October/ November is not the right time for it though, we often have players on the other side of the world playing internationals at that time, maybe a signing period in July will work?