honestly what a stupid call, stick to soccer because thats what we would have. The same teams winning every year one of your worst call fraudy
I'm not against the idea, and the reality is that even with the salary cap supposedly making the comp more even, most seasons of the NRL in the last 10 years have been dominated by a few clubs. That is to say, there is usually not too many surprises about who ends up in the top 4.
In the EPL in the last 10 years there have been 5 teams take home the title: Man U x 1, Man C x 5, Chelsea x 2, Leicester x 1, Liverpool x 1. In that time Arsenal and Tottenham have been close, coming twice at least once each.
In the NRL in the last 10 years, there have been 6 teams take home the title: Chooks x 3, Souffs x 1, Cows x 1, Sharks x 1, Storm x 2, Penrith x 2.
But this obscures something very important, the EPL doesn't have a finals series. Their title holders are the same as our minor premierships. So let's look at those:
NRL minor premierships in the last 10 years: Chooks x 4, Storm x 4, Penrith x 2. When we compare like with like, the EPL has a bigger spread of successful teams than the NRL.
The finals series obscures what is really happening in the NRL. Though not equivalent, the English FA Cup is a knock out style competition, and it has had 7 different winners in the last 10 years.
So I'm not sure that any argument about the salary cap stopping the same teams from winning all the time, or making the competition more even than alternatives, really stacks up.
But this is looking at it quite simplistically, huge sports enterprises are about a lot than merely which team takes the title each year (though this is of course important). The English football system, and other systems like it, are far more powerful at player development. The sport as a whole is bigger because the means for putting the brakes on at club level are more nuanced. The NRLs system for limiting the capacity for clubs to put together a superstar team is a blunt instrument, and it impacts the sport as a whole.
I'd like to see these ideas explored more deeply.
