Would you be prepared to pay extra for tickets /memberships

[happy_tiger]

The easiest answer to the insurance issue would be that the fans and the NRL split the cost (within reason) to ensure every player in insured for partial or full disablement (IE Simon Dwyer or Alex MacKinnon )

Would you pay an extra $ 5 for a ticket to ensure that players are fully insured ??

 

[supercoach]

Happy you are sounding like the PM, another surcharge. I think all contracts registered with any governing body, should attract a 5% or even a 10% levy that goes into players welfare. Now weather the clubs pay for it or the players I dont really care, but this way right from your bush battler in group 10 right through to your top of the tree elite player in the NRL all have proper coverage. Dont forget a lot of medical expenses come to light years after they have retired with things like hip and knee replacements.

 

[Milky]

Most players earn over 300k, can't some of that money go towards insurance?

 

[Saturnalia]

I pay for my own insurance, let the players pay for theirs.

Obviously they'll try to find a way to pass the cost on. but given the RL's difficulty in attracting fans to games I think raising ticket prices isn't going to be the answer.

 

[happy_tiger]

Happy you are sounding like the PM, another surcharge. I think all contracts registered with any governing body, should attract a 5% or even a 10% levy that goes into players welfare. Now weather the clubs pay for it or the players I dont really care, but this way right from your bush battler in group 10 right through to your top of the tree elite player in the NRL all have proper coverage. Dont forget a lot of medical expenses come to light years after they have retired with things like hip and knee replacements.

Well SC I was talking about players who received serious injuries

The clubs pay in the end for the surgeries involved in knee recos ,shoulder recos and the like

 

[innsaneink]

Haha gee up surely

Its entertainmment and Im paying to be entertained…im not paying to support them

 

[supercoach]

Happy you are sounding like the PM, another surcharge. I think all contracts registered with any governing body, should attract a 5% or even a 10% levy that goes into players welfare. Now weather the clubs pay for it or the players I dont really care, but this way right from your bush battler in group 10 right through to your top of the tree elite player in the NRL all have proper coverage. Dont forget a lot of medical expenses come to light years after they have retired with things like hip and knee replacements.

Well SC I was talking about players who received serious injuries

The clubs pay in the end for the surgeries involved in knee recos ,shoulder recos and the like

So Iam I but also think a lot of players run into financial hardship long after they have retired due to injuries they got while playing the game.. A 5%-10% levy should attract enough monies to cover both the serious injuries and the orthopedic stuff latter in life. You have to remember their are players who make bugger all from the game who suffer the same injuries as our elite players. Worked with a guy who played reserve grade for the dragons who limped around like a cripple for about five years till he could get a hip replacement

 

[Demps]

Prices are pretty steep as is…
I think if I want a decent stadium seat here, in Newcastle... it's around $40-45

A gold class cinema ticket is only $30 and a lot more comfortable.
Snacks there would be around the same as the game and you get good service.

Surely from that $45 bucks, they can take a percentage of it already for charity or whatever.
I know companies do it, like $1 from each purchase goes to so and so.

I am a firm believer ticket prices should be cheaper and competitive.
No "couples" options available....
Even in season pass, some of us don't need a "family pass" yet and don't want to buy two single adults because it's already expensive as.

Westfield gives away free tickets to Jets and Knights games up here...
IMO tickets should be...
GA $5 KIDS, $10 ADULTS.
STADIUM TICKETS; $10 KIDS, $20 ADULTS.

Make money in other ways, such as food and sponsorship.

 

[Black_n_White]

up tickets to pay for their insurances? jam that idea straight up your you know what…

 

[happy_tiger]

Well the players could strike until they get what they wanted

Works well in the US

 

[Black_n_White]

Or they could be like the rest of the contractors in this countrys workforce and be responsible for their own insurances… for a few dollars a week I am insured for 80% of my income and also have to have public liability as well on what is not much more than the base NRL salary.

Just because they are football players doesnt mean they lack responsibility as a contractor to protect themselves and their families, and honestly is also failure of their respective managers to not advise them to do so as they help the players navigate the business side of things.

That said, I do believe the League and clubs should also have some coverage in place for these situations, they are "when" events, not "if" events due to the physical nature of the beast.

 

[innsaneink]

It shouldnt be up to the fans to support this….you got it all arse up Happy

 

[happy_tiger]

It shouldnt be up to the fans to support this….you got it all arse up Happy

I probably do Ink but when you hear Lockyer say this morning this is brought up continually by the players and the NRL does nothing what do they do ??

If the players were going to stop work the next week or so would be the perfect time with the games showpiece coming up

 

[tig_prmz]

they earn probably a 100x more than me annually. i pay for their bills with memberships and going to the game.

just like CTP- every player should be forced to buy their own insurance. no insurance= no game time.

 

[crusader]

It's not about cost . None of the current insurance companies will cover NRL players. It's just not feasable. In other words, the product doesn't exist.

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[happy_tiger]

It's not about cost . None of the current insurance companies will cover NRL players. It's just not feasable. In other words, the product doesn't exist.

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So it too bad too sad then

Sorry Simon bad luck by the sounds of it

Too bad you were prepared to give your life to the game and the club Treated like a filthy oily rag by the sounds of it

 

[Russell]

This to me is a Players Association thing - they don't do much.
Maybe they could organise a system for insurance for their members.
Cost could be something like 1% of their salary.
e.g. Those earning say $500,000 pay $5,000 and those earning $50,000 pay $500.
As you get better contracts you pay more - if you don't you have a lesser contribution.
Maybe the NRL could chip in for those earning less out of the TV money.

No one else pays my insurance and most of the NRL players earn a lot more than me.

Ticket prices are way too high already - the game only lasts 90 minutes.

 

[Black_n_White]

It's not about cost . None of the current insurance companies will cover NRL players. It's just not feasable. In other words, the product doesn't exist.

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So it too bad too sad then

Sorry Simon bad luck by the sounds of it

Too bad you were prepared to give your life to the game and the club Treated like a filthy oily rag by the sounds of it

lets get this straight, every child that plays any sport in Australia is covered by insurance that evaporates once you reach a professional level… I know my mate was covered playing all ages soccer for loss of income and hospital bills, and that was part of his rego, so peanuts, his loss of income worked out as a %, he could have been on millions...

Mariah Carey has her legs insured for $1B, Lopez has her butt insured for $300M, one of Hugh Heff's ex's has her silicon tatas covered for a cool Million... want me to start on sportspeople... Beckhams legs $70M... at the very least Players can insure their income due to injury, that is a fact!

this is all a cop out... the person who should look out for yourself first and foremost should be you. If players want to play professionally, that is to be professionals, then they need to conduct their own business accordingly.

 

[happy_tiger]

It's not about cost . None of the current insurance companies will cover NRL players. It's just not feasable. In other words, the product doesn't exist.

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So it too bad too sad then

Sorry Simon bad luck by the sounds of it

Too bad you were prepared to give your life to the game and the club Treated like a filthy oily rag by the sounds of it

lets get this straight, every child that plays any sport in Australia is covered by insurance that evaporates once you reach a professional level… I know my mate was covered playing all ages soccer for loss of income and hospital bills, and that was part of his rego, so peanuts, his loss of income worked out as a %, he could have been on millions...

Mariah Carey has her legs insured for $1B, Lopez has her butt insured for $300M, one of Hugh Heff's ex's has her silicon tatas covered for a cool Million... want me to start on sportspeople... Beckhams legs $70M... at the very least Players can insure their income due to injury, that is a fact!

this is all a cop out... the person who should look out for yourself first and foremost should be you. If players want to play professionally, that is to be professionals, then they need to conduct their own business accordingly.

Sorry B&W

But when a bloke like Beckham (who wasn't even in the Top 25 world's best players )earns 20+ Million a season compared to maybe $1 million a season for our best player or Mariah Carey earns the same for 1 album you are comparing oranges and caviar my friend

If you want to start paying these guys 4-5 times more I'm sure they will insure themselves

 

[Black_n_White]

my personal income protection, which is also rolled into my life insurance, which covers me for injuring myself absolutely anywhere not only at work, for a salary around $100K is $37 a week. Though my life is only worth $600K…

In this country it is the employer obligation to insure employees, a contractors duty to insure himself and actually incase of injury to those around him. The second a player signs on the dotted line $X for Zyrs, he is a contractor, thats the simple facts of the matter. If they dont want to accept the responsibilities involved in being a contractor, dont sign on, get a job at Hungry Jacks...

I feel sorry they get injured, I do, but more electricians die each year than players crippled by Rugby League, they insure themselves, and they are even actually providing a necessary service, alot of electrical sub contractors struggle to make around the minimum NRL wage...

Your head is messed up on this one... Heart is in the right place though...