Most of the backended contracts are gone but we still have Jackson, Hopoate, Tolman, Elliott and Foran who were re-signed under the previous "back-ended scheme". Foran was also signed on massive overs you like it or not.
I understand people who say, how is this bloke getting paid this much and so on, but thats the way the contracts were structured.
Eastwood was backended on 800k in his final year, what do you think the others have been backended to?
Understand what you are saying, but in recently times the NRL made clubs pay a player based on their approximate value. So you couldn't pay Ponga $110k for a year if he was worth $600k a season.
Surely based on that the NRL would require a player be paid a minimum wage for a year (even if backending - which I believe is now banned by the NRL).
Then there's the question of wealth. Looking at our lineup there are very few players that would be on big money even if it was backended.
With players like Mbye, are you saying that he could be on $1 million a season over 3 years, and in the first year we paid him $500k, meaning in the 2nd and 3rd years we owed a total of $2.5 million, and that despite being at Tigers, we could be paying $2 million of that $2.5 despite not being at the club?
I'd have thought when a player changes clubs and recontracts, any backending is done and buried (or carried by the new club).
Of course the easiest way around this all is the NRL to step in and say "if you change clubs the contract is terminated, any outstanding money on existing contract forfeited, and new club pays everything".
OR even better, they manage the cap for all clubs, clubs pay NRL, NRL pays players.
That said, that requires logic, which we know does not exist in NRL HQ.
Just for curiosities sake I wish Des did stay just to see how he would have dealt with this.
As you say it is all done now. I do hope this current board is exploring all options to get the cap back in shape because all we have heard is we are cooked till 2021.
That's how I feel. Put simply the club CANNOT drag this on past 2019. Memberships have fallen and if we enter 2020 with the same promises, then the club will be lucky to crack 10k members.
One thing you have to remember, that spastic Ray Dib was trying to get the coup together (all 15 NRL clubs) to push for a $10m cap when it was about $9m and than go up every year over a certain %
All 15 NRL clubs eventually gave Dib the finger, and he was warned on numerous occassions by Greenturd to work to a 9.2m cap.
The fuckwit thought he was bigger than life and that he would get all 15 nrl clubs up against the NRL to buckle to their requests.
Actually it was either Grant or Beattie (I think Grant) who shot his mouth off and advised clubs the cap was going to be $10 million.
Clubs then aimed recruitment based on $10 million only for Greenberg to announce (very late / close to seasons start mind you) that the cap would be $9.2 million.
By that stage many clubs were over. Make no mistake we were not the only ones caught out by that.
