Ok so theoretically if there are 20 players still contracted for next year the club could use the 5% unused to give them an extra 25k this year and take it off next years amounts - rather than significant amounts for small number of players - im sure clubs account managers would have it all sorted
Correct.
You'd hope they would....
He made it up.
I wonder if the player on leave - if they were to get a settlement above contract payout ( to avoid legal action etc) whether the settlement would come out of the salary cap
So why say 900k? Lol
You are believing the media that has agendas against us...That's wrong !
Look at the list I posted of 2024 signings across the league though. It's not like every other club signed superstars. Most of the best players re-signed before they hit the market because the cap went up so much and their current clubs could afford to offer them more. Throw in a 17th team that signed 30-40 players and that leaves you with very little player movement as I pointed out.
Cleary is the primary decision maker not the only one and deserves credit, but did you know that Fisher-Harris approached Barrett wanting to join us, Penrith had to make a decision between Fisher_Harris and Kikau.
Correct, add to that the scary tactics against us implied by News crap
Yep he is only concerned about media (esp. TV) revenue increases, as his main KPI for success. The more teams, the more games, the greater the media (and gambling) revenue. Seems to have no longer term view nor awareness that talent is limited & already being spread too thinly. Ultimately will decline the quality of the offering. He is not a long term strategic leader and thinker for the game but just an accountant / financial manager with shorter term $ targets to manage. Big difference between a true leader and a manager.
so how do teams at the bottom ever get to the level of the top teams when the list of quality players is so limited and the top teams always recruit the cream of the crop? expansion will result in a two tiered competition...the top 8 fighting for the premiership and bottom 8 fighting for the wooden spoon...there's are the facts my friends
You need 30 contracted players and must spend 95% minimum of the cap. It is utterly inevitable that we will sign some plodders on overs. Don’t hate the club for it, hate the NRL rules. You just have to hope that we are not offering 3 to 5 year deals to them. 2yrs max with an option for a third in our favour so they don’t hang around stinking up the place for too long if they are not working out.
Most of the new signings are a 1-2 year deals
By having a salary cap that actually works and is applied equally across all clubs, plus quite likely a player draft system. Won’t fix every problem, but would help enormously in my opinion.
Junior development is the only way. Brisbane were down the bottom and even the roosters so that proves even the rich clubs can fail but they don't fail for long. Brisbane has so many good young kids and so to the roosters. The tigers have a good handfull to kick start them. Keeping them is the next issue. Our issue was des come in half his team were developed or through our grades and that steady youth injection stopped . We have to build from within again.
Funny how a draft in the NRL wont work and considered illegal but the AFL has one. Players care about the future of their game but league boys sook n go to court. The NRL need a national u20 comp with max salary set on the kids. Then they need a reserve grade comp with a decent cap to keep the players in the game. So many things need to be done. They took the ownership rights off a media company and gave it to the gambling sector.
