New NRL roster system will prevent Farah-style Tigers exile

[Oatley Dog]

We are talking about the NRL here. Intelligence is in no way a high priority.

Here's the problem with the idea if you are saying those players are locked into contracts: How does a team then recruit?

They lock in 30 players in NRL contracts. All are contracted for 2018-2019 seasons.
In 2019 they want to recruit 2 players, but they already have 30 NRL contracted players.

This would mean they'd HAVE to swap that player to another club in order to find a spot in their 30.
But that other club also has 30 players locked in, so would have to retire or not sign a player in their 30.

So with that in mind a player with an NRL contract cannot be locked into the Top 30, as that would effectively kill any chance of clubs recruiting.

Unless I'm missing something obvious in all this.

Of course you are....You assume that the 30 NRL contracts are the only contracts between players and clubs, which of course they are not. It is clearly a tiered approach to registering players that starts with kids as young as 15 being signed (remember them - how many of those appear on our salary cap eh??). In practice not much will change except that players won't be able to be dumped from the squad once they are listed because all clubs will have the maximum numbers before a ball is kicked off. That means players like SBW can't come into RL unless a club has a hole in its roster and the only way they will be able to do that is by creating one by selling them to another club who also has to have a hole. It actually means that fans will have a much higher degree of confidence that they will know who is playing for their team the whole year.

 

[Baby Blues]

We are talking about the NRL here. Intelligence is in no way a high priority.

Here's the problem with the idea if you are saying those players are locked into contracts: How does a team then recruit?

They lock in 30 players in NRL contracts. All are contracted for 2018-2019 seasons.
In 2019 they want to recruit 2 players, but they already have 30 NRL contracted players.

This would mean they'd HAVE to swap that player to another club in order to find a spot in their 30.
But that other club also has 30 players locked in, so would have to retire or not sign a player in their 30.

So with that in mind a player with an NRL contract cannot be locked into the Top 30, as that would effectively kill any chance of clubs recruiting.

Unless I'm missing something obvious in all this.

You’re being ridiculous now. You know very well that each year teams have players coming off contract. It’s 30 registered contracts for the upcoming season so just like clubs always have had to do, they will have to manage their roster accordingly