Club Grants & the Salary Cap

[CMP]

As I understand it the NRL pays each club up and above the Salary Cap as a grant each year.

If the NRL withheld the Salary Cap component from the grant and payed the players direct for the contract negotiated.

If this was combined with every official contract offer from other clubs, given to the NRL. They would see clearly if there were any anomalies in the deal being signed.

Would this make the Salary Cap more transparent?

At the very least the Players cannot plead ignorance, when someone is caught cheating.
Because the NRL is the only place payment should be coming from.

The Bulldogs Cap situation cannot be that bad. Their ability to pay money creativity is their downfall.

Even if they are paying players overs. There is no way when you look at other rosters, we can be so much worse.

 

[Mr Invisible]

They need to scrap the system and adopt the same thing Super League do. Allow teams to loan players out, etc.

 

[CMP]

They need to scrap the system and adopt the same thing Super League do. Allow teams to loan players out, etc.

I didn’t know they did that. Does it work the same way as football (soccer)?

 

[Oatley Dog]

They need to scrap the system and adopt the same thing Super League do. Allow teams to loan players out, etc.

Apart from the fact that the loan system (DR) is being heavily criticised and widely disliked, it really isn't any different to our system where we have a reserve grade feeder comp that allows us to draw players at any time pretty much. the other thing of course is that if an NRL club loans a player (which they can do if there is space in the top 30) then the club lending can't get any more cap money to buy another player in so they would have to promote someone from their reggies side. That puts us back at what we have now.