Is the salary cap for the nrl is a restriction of trade for the players?

Question

if they want to earn a decent living.then the salary cap must go.we all knew that by the time most of the players past the age of 30s.then they will be unemployed.most of them will have no trades or other source of income.not all of them will not ended up working with their clubs as a trainer or assistant coach or even coach.should the salary cap be scrap to allow good players to earn a decent pay.we all knew that a team with many talents dont win a comp at the end of the premiership.its not the balance of talents.its all about being a competetive against others.

Answer 1

The way you word questions always confuses me... I just had to say that.

As for the salary cap... there is nothing wrong with it. First of all, if they want to earn a decent living??? $200,000 a season is good... $400,000 a season is great. If they can't make a decent living, it's more about their financial prowess or mentality. They are doing good, and a lot of people have a day job / trade to rely on. And there is always the English League to score ridiculous amounts of money when one retires from the NRL. Good Talent make good money... and instead of removing the salary cap and making our game the mockery it was in the early years (South / Saints buying all the talent), we should consider increasing the amount of teams in the competition. Another couple of cashed up clubs could inject more money into the NRL and retain more players.

Simply put... the salary cap doesn't make people go to Union or England... Greed does. The players are earning good money and if they can't handle it when they retire, that is their own fault.

Answer 2

1st..... the salary cap does restrict player trade, if we didn't have the salary cap the clubs with the financial backing would dominate year after year...... take the English premier league for example, you have teams like Chelsea and Manchester united ( which dominate year after year) with a playing roster budget of $500,000,000... and then you have a struggling team like barnsley who have a playing roster budget of $350,000. (where's the fairness in that?)

2nd...... if we didn't have a salary cap our game wouldn't be able to grow for example the titans wouldn't have been able to be competitive like they are in only there second season.... because they don't have the big financial backing!

3rd..... players are looked after better then ever before when it comes to career choices clubs don't stop them from attending university to get a degree or do tafe courses...... in fact alot of NRL players are embarking on furthering there education so they have something to fall back on after there football career.

lastly id like to leave you with this question........ would you want to follow a sport were only 3 or 4 teams out of 15 or 16 could win the competition? (because thats what would happen if we didn't have a salary cap)

personally i think that makes for a boring sport....... which is why i don't watch the EPL.

Answer 3

I think the salary cap should be far greater then wat it is. For many reasons as such

Answer 4

well hard question, if they completely removed it, the richer teams (bulldogs, broncos, warriors and penrith) could buy any player they wanted while the poorer ones like st george and the roosters (28 million dollars in debt) wouldnt be able to compete

its ok though since they raise it by a about 500 grand every season anyway so yeah, i think they should just set it at 10mil and do wat they do in the NFL where they share out the revenue the NFL makes to all the teams so everyone can use the cap.

Answer 5

then the game will be like soccer, i dunno if you know much about it but the richer club will always be on the top and for a c**p club like derby to become good all they need is a rich owner.