Someone here said marquee player isn’t included...The ESL has a salary cap of 2.1m pounds, aren't they wolfpack part of that league now?
#scrapthecapIf the league takes off in the USA, a global body would be required to administer a fair cap system across all competitions to ensure competition across all leagues.
Going off the general consensus, the current heads of the game can't administer the NRL cap fairly. In basketball, if an Australian player is good enough they get recruited to the NBA. In soccer it's also common for the best players we produce to go overseas to greener pastures. At present Australia and New Zealand tend to develop the best talent in rugby league. If they're good enough they're often scalped to play union. If the US adopted the game and decided to take it close to a national competition over there they'd want to invest in quality players. Even if they started a team in half their states and scalped two quality players for each team it would be a huge drain on our talent pool. I dare say that coaching staff would also be making an exodus.If the league takes off in the USA, a global body would be required to administer a fair cap system across all competitions to ensure competition across all leagues.
Is what I fear.Going off the general consensus, the current heads of the game can't administer the NRL cap fairly. In basketball, if an Australian player is good enough they get recruited to the NBA. In soccer it's also common for the best players we produce to go overseas to greener pastures. At present Australia and New Zealand tend to develop the best talent in rugby league. If they're good enough they're often scalped to play union. If the US adopted the game and decided to take it close to a national competition over there they'd want to invest in quality players. Even if they started a team in half their states and scalped two quality players for each team it would be a huge drain on our talent pool. I dare say that coaching staff would also be making an exodus.
Given the population size over there, I think that in 10-15 years their reliance on foreign talent would diminish. I think it would take a long time to get junior support and player development going in a country where gridiron is almost a religion to the bulk of the country in terms of contact sports. But in that amount of time it could have a pretty detrimental impact on support for the game in its traditional breeding ground. I wouldn't want to see our game become a lower division training pool.Is what I fear.
Our competition becoming an also ran.
They can play a marquee player as much as they want and only around $300k goes onto the cap. Not sure the number of marquees they can have thoughThe ESL has a salary cap of 2.1m pounds, aren't the wolfpack part of that league now?
Becoming?Is what I fear.
Our competition becoming an also ran.
Good point.Becoming?
10mil over 2 years is ludicrous money. Does not make sense to me.all that money to play football... makes me sick.
10mil over 2 years is ludicrous money. Does not make sense to me.
Is that due to your sombrero not holding such capacity for a single player?10mil over 2 years is ludicrous money. Does not make sense to me.