Not sure why you would list FFA?
FIFA & IOC have cleaned up their act and lets not discount that FIFA & IOC are vastly more complex organizations that have basicly every nation on earth as members with many of those Nations where corruption is part of the tapestry of their society.
Yes the NRL is corrupt a lose "salary cap" without a draft just doesn't work.
When I say lose I mean hidden behind smoke & mirrors including the ridiculous TPAs.
How many times has the NRL "salary cap audit team" ever picked up anything? Fucking never is the answer it takes a whistle blower or police tip off or some other "leak" for them to find amything. Their so called "audit" team sit around drinking coffee looking out the window watching the wind blow through the trees all day, that's when their not on facebook or looking up porn.
Then we have the match officals, a bigger bunch of more incompetent referees you could not find, are they ever held accountable..No, do they corruptly determine the outcome of matches...you betta believe they do.
And finally we have the NRL sucking at the teat of sports betting agencies.
Oh and to your other post about billionaire owners and celebrity owners. Who opened the door to private ownership of Rugby League teams and calling them "franchises" rather than the traditional member owned clubs that the game was built on....thats right the NRL.
The NRL is rotten to the core.
That's just an emotional rant. Nothing wrong with that but just recognise it for what it is. I think you mean "loose" not 'lose'. So the fact that FIFA had to press gang the FFA into changing its governance structures doesn't mean anything at all? OK. The IOC and FIFA have done absolutely nothing more than window dressing in terms of fixing corruption. They still rely on small poor countries for votes bought for by rich and powerful ones - the very definition of corruption.
The machinations of the Cap are indeed complex - every club has said so, but that doesn't make it corrupt. Just because fans can't understand something doesn't make it corrupt - just makes it hard.
As for how many times does an audit pick something up well I think you will find every season there are at least 4 or 5 clubs fined for cap breaches so they must be doing something. Like all audit bodies if they had unlimited resources they could audit continuously but having an audit budget bigger than your income stream is not good business sense so it becomes risk management.
The NRL isn't 'sucking on the teats of betting agencies' it is demanding that they pay a reasonable proportion of their income generated from an activity that the NRL organises and accepts all of the operational risk for. Hardly corrupt. In fact it is outstanding business acumen (oh and a little bit of legislation).
Private ownership isn't a bad thing if you want enough teams to run a national competition. In fact it all goes back to the capacity of the game to attract funds. Pissant leagues clubs and chook raffles can't cut it. That's why they sold out to the Crowes, Tinklers, Frizelles etc. It was the only way at the time we could maintain a 16 team comp. Without a cap most of those clubs would've gone under by now and you would be sitting on the hill at belmore watching an A grade comp.
There has never been a time in history where referees are respected. Not Page, not Hartley, not Harrigan and now not Sutton. We've gone from no cameras to one camera on halfway to 4 cameras to now 16 of them. You think that level of scrutiny isn't going to turn up mistakes. Of course it is. It is easy to sit back and label them as corrupt but the truth is that the decision making challenges for refs is getting harder every year and some are less able to adapt than others. One thing I know for sure if we punt them we don't have a game. But don't think it is limited to our game. I had an in depth conversation with a retired AFL player and coach the other day and he was blowing up deluxe about how ridiculous the umpiring is in their code and they have 4 of them on the field. How about cricket umpires...... you get the point. We all hate officials. Doesn't make them corrupt.
I for one think the NRL are going OK. Not perfect but OK. They have started doing things that will grow the game. We have an international series this week. We've never had that before. We are taking the game around the world to open up opportunities. Haven't done that before. We've moved origin. Don't get me wrong there are still a million things to be done but you can't turn the titanic on a dime. These things take time.