Should There be a Salary Cap / National Draft?

[Cult]

Do we really want to put the future players of our game into the hands of the NRL? The draft wouldn't help us at all. Last year we would have lost Fifita and Haas to the Eels and the Sea Eagles. **** that noise.

 

[Cult]

I like the idea of a salary cap system similar to the NBA, whereby if you exceed the cap you pay a huge luxury tax.

This is pretty much what we have now except they call it a fine and we have no idea where the money goes

 

[tommy]

The point is, as much as I love to sink the boot in to the Roosters, if we're going to vilify them for "cheating the cap" because of the exact same things that our club also claims, we should equally be under suspicion.

Even if we did have every player's salaries known, if a Roosters player is genuinely getting paid less than a rival club offered, they are still no more guilty of cheating the cap than we are, assuming the Bulldogs' offer to Carrigan is genuine.

Yeah we are good at hanging onto the young guys and I assume that's because of the point I already made but when it comes to guys who have been in first grade a few years there would be huge question marks over why they wouldn't want to double their pay.

 

[Porthoz]

Salaries being made public wouldn't be enough IMO. At the moment at least half of them are reported in the media, and though they may not all be 100% accurate, it gives an idea. There are already players that you'd consider to be on "unders", and the explanation is always that they're taking less to play for X club, out of opportunity or loyalty.

Even if you included their 3rd party deals, it doesn't go far enough. Because it's the stuff off the books that is where the real cheating happens. Teams don't do duplicate books anymore, but they still do free boats, fake jobs for family members through third-party companies, fake work/invoices for works that may or may not have been done, and even the ol' paper bag full of cash.

Without doing a complete and exhaustive audit of every player, their family, including income, expenditure, and compare it to their resulting lifestyle, it's too easy to hide payments.

Why not include their sexual habits as well? If a player doesn't **** his wife/gf often enough, he's probably fucking some piece on the side, that he might be maintaining with the brown paper bag he gets on a weekly/monthly base from his club...
Let's fucking get real, as much as they are public figures, players also deserve the right to privacy!

The main reason for a salary cap is to artificially maintain a close competition and give the opportunity to every club in the comp to actually have a fair chance to win it.
No matter what people feel about the cap's pros and cons, that works, as it does in any competition in the world where a cap is used.

On the other hand, no cap guarantees a competition dominated by a handfull of clubs, as the biggest sport in the world proves in every single club competition, be it national, continental or international.

As Broncos fans, we would certainly not regret it, because we would undoubtedly be part of said handfull of dominant clubs.
But would the NRL survive in such a small market as the Australian, if most clubs without resources would essentially be aspiring to nothing more than a spot in the bottom part of the top 8?

I don't know whether a Draft would work without a cap either, and there are valid arguments for both sides of the argument. I tend to think that if your goal is to be a player in the NRL, chances are you will not be able to stay in your comfort zone, especially if you hail from Victoria, New Zealand or ACT, not to speak of other Australian states or countries, so a Draft would only be a discomfort for Qld'ers and especially NSW'kers, with their 9 NRL clubs in a relatively small area.

Of course, you could argue that forcing more than half of the rookies to live in Sydney and suburbs, is cruel and unusual punishment, possibly in contravention of the UN Human Rights Charter.