Will we go after JT !

[supercoach]

With the likes of Farah,Marshall,Ellis,Lawrence,Lotte,Galloway on our books we are no chance. I think you will find unless they increase the cap we will be very quite in the player market this year.

 

[system]

Thurston has developed into an utterly dominant player week in week out.

Even Lockyer takes a back seat to him in Origin.

I would prefer Marshall and Farah running our show than being marshalled around by Thurston.

Not doubting his skill as a player but I don't see it as a good fit

 

[Chris]

I still remain a staunch supporter of a player being brought through a club's junior ranks become exempt from the same club's salary cap as a reward for the club for putting in the time and effort into the player.

 

[supercoach]

Thats why the old transfer system was good, teams like the chooks would have to compensate teams every time they reap their talent. It was also good revenue source for the poorer clubs who had strong juniors but its never going to happen after the Dennis Tutty legal challenge many moons ago. Second best idea a draft also will not happen as it will get destroyed if ever challenged in court

 

[southerntiger]

I am not sure how the Gould model can even be called a salary cap. What is the point of it?

 

[westTAHger]

would not be suprised, if soon players of the calibre of Thurston actually do not end up with contract in NRL.
they will eventually price themselves out of playing NRL.
may come down to simple supply and demand.
he demands big money, and no club is willing to supply it, under current salary cap restrictions.
look at other players who have left and gone to other codes.
the game of footy still continues without them, and new talent is un-earthed.

 

[Geo]

Ummm …why...We have Moltzen...

 

[Spartan117]

His heart wont be at any Sydney club he joins…

I say we shouldnt and having said that know that we wont...

 

[ron_burgandy]

Ummm …why...We have Moltzen...

quotes for emphasis

 

[Glennb]

I am not sure how the Gould model can even be called a salary cap. What is the point of it?

It solves the problem of the salary cap acting as a quasi draft i.e. leveling the talent pool and capping player payments. Trouble is, the salary cap, even though it does a very good job of levelling talent throughout the comp, was never designed nor introduced for that. It was introduced to stop clubs going broke (Canberra at the time).

Goulds model would encourage the sort of ridiculous spending that the cap was introduced to stop.

At the end of the day, players can only get paid what the market can afford, it is no different to ANY other industry and at the moment the clubs cant even afford the $4M. If there are any changes to the Salary cap, say goodbye to Cronulla and a couple of other clubs (possibly Tigers) an dif we survive, say goodbye to Farah, Benji etc.

Glenn

 

[tomcat]

Ummm …why...We have Moltzen...

and lui and lazo :wink:

 

[clontarfkid]

The temptation is to assert that Gould just doesnt grasp the fact that in the current business model ,without a salary cap we'd very quickly end up with just a handful of clubs.This may change a little when all the ARL/CRL etc freeloaders are punted & NRL runs the whole show,which hopefully is on track,but some form of salary cap is a prerequisite to having a comp.
Goulds real agenda is his very transparent his affiliation with Easts,one of the few clubs that would survive a no salary cap scenario.
Always putting the game first is our Phil….