bathursttiger1
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It was a peach according to Hooper.
stryker 69
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How would a journalist, or anyone for that matter, find out if that story was true?
Agree with this 100%. It is the obvious solution. What the player gets paid and what the player is valued at in the cap can be two different numbers. The NRL needs to set up a portal or similar viewable to all the clubs. When a player is off contract any club can submit an offer of the dollars they want to pay over the years they want to offer. Each club can only have 2 or 3 chances to amend its offer (to prevent gaming the value). The player will be valued in the cap each year of his contract at the average of the offers that are higher than the offer they accept (an average is used to reduce the ability to game the value). That way, if a player wants to take unders to play at the roosters, go for it. The player won’t miss out financially between his lower roosters salary and his brown paper bags. The player can still choose where he wants to play. But the roosters will get hit with a market value cap valuation which will spread the talent out very quickly. Soon enough there will be no point in clubs using illegal payments to attract talent because there is no benefit to the club in doing so. I’m sure there would be a few kinks to iron out with this system but it would work so well. Although, I wonder if the NRL players association would allow it as if you take out the illegal payments, the overall earnings of the leagues’ entire top 30 squads will be significantly lower.
The horse racing guru running the nrl must not care about his organisation lacking integrity . Apart from the cap rorts did they ever release the ref to bunker tapes from the tigers cowboys result reversal .why we can't even hear the tapes what remains hidden has an odour .It smells
FinestTigers
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The truth is with the person who is the source of the story,
But what some of these NRL journalists usually do is that they give their ambiguous corrupt opinions about their targeted club or player and publish those stories without ever seeking comment from the source prior to public viewing of the story.
These journalist clowns would not have been able to have this fake impunity
If defamation wasn't a complex legal matter,
stryker 69
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Treat them how Wayne and Darius do…with absolute contempt. They are the enemy of the code
Saturnalia
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Fun fact: Nowhere in the bible does it say the fruit was an apple.
If it was an apple, that means the garden of Eden is in Kazahkstan. (where apples are originally from).
This has been brought to you by @Sataris. Not standing inside the 10 on a dropout.
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Don Kershane
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At the very least V'landys and Klein should be forced to do the Walk of Shame from Concord to Wests Leagues -naked of course. Shame! Shame!
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tig_prmz
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I think there is potentially a cycle with salary cap. We have had about 3 bad ones.
What they do is one journalist makes something up then other journalists can quote that they have sources for repeating the story
Welcome to Murdoch media the home of lies fabrications and falsehoods
stryker 69
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I agree…the salary cap is a joke, it is not policed properly and it is obviously easily manipulated.
twentyforty
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For some clubs very difficult to manage. There’s also a $5m cap for football department employees. Never much discussion about the redistribution of these funds?
Our problem is the salary cap. If all our pathways players are as good as people imply we cannot keep them all. We will lose some.
scrap the cap
We will rock the comp. Best juniors ever...pathways is the way forward. If this is true scrap the cap.
Spend whatever...We make a profit... Pascoe is a financial genius...why hold us back?
scrap the cap
We will rock the comp. Best juniors ever...pathways is the way forward. If this is true scrap the cap.
Spend whatever...We make a profit... Pascoe is a financial genius...why hold us back?
balmain boy
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It's utterly embarrassing and unprofessional to not have this locked in 12 months in advance. How can clubs budget and allocate space in their cap if they don't know how much they have to spend? The NRL is run by a bunch of monkeys. But not the smart Planet of the Apes kind..
Also noting that for 2023 Luke Brooks qualifies for the veteran and long serving player allowance at the Tigers but from 2024 onwards he is eligible for it at any club and that's especially important if it's increased to 500k as per the proposal from the RLPA. Noting both Munster and Moses qualify via any club in 2024 as both will have played 10 seasons in nrl top 30. This means if you had no other player in that grouping you could pay any 1 of them 500k assuming the proposal goes ahead. Although we could use some of that for Nofa and Api
Not only that.... It happens every fkn time!!
There's been instance on instance where clubs have incorrectly projected based on the info they had and have had to shed players to comply...
Surely they have a figure in mind across the board this close to the date.
It happens every year.
People are quick to hang the clubs out to dry, But it's the Governing body a lot of the time - It starts there....
Reminds me of when the NRL spent a squillion dollars purchasing old Photographs of the game from the Photographer and then lost them....
Didn't even know where they'd stored the archived history of the game.