Should the NRL change the rules on salary cap of players?

Question

or are players just too greedy for money these days and lack a lot of loyalty. Im not a bulldogs fan but I would be really p@issed if Sonny Bill Wiliiams did. that to my team.

And should THE IRB and European Rugby in particular France and England also be to blame for not having a system where they should limit foriegn players. At the long term it is their development that will suffer as these rugby stars take the spots of younger players just starting their professional careers.

The NZRU has a similar yet serious problem here where there is and still this mass exodus of players which raises the loyalty VS many debate.

Carl Hayman

Chris Jack

Byron Kelleher

Rico Gear

Anton Oliver

Luke McAlister

Nick Evans

have done the same and it does impact the performance of your team.

Just take a look in the weaken. The bulldogs were belted by the Dragons and the Allblacks were well beaten.

So should the salary cap be changed to keep players?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

I hate Sonny Bill Williams

Answer 3

lol..NZ players left because of LACK of money, not a salary cap.

Answer 4

The problem with changing the salary cap is where will all this extra money come from. Some teams will have sponsors with a few mil to spare but most won't. So we will have a case of the haves and have nots, but would this be so bad, the media keeps spruicking that there are too many teams so if teams do go under should the salary cap be abolished, so be it.

The IRB will do nothing regarding overseas/out of country players (eg Welsh players playing for an Irish club). The EU will not allow this type of discrimination. In the EPL there were suggestions that each team will have 6 starting players who can play foe England. This has been knocked on the head by European Football and the EU. It should also be noted that most of those Kiwis named were either on their way out or were only fringe players.

Sonny Bill is also looking at taking the NRL to court because of restraint of trade due to the salary cap. But that is another story.

Answer 5

This question is asked over and over.

The sole purpose of the salary cap is to bring fairness among the comp. Back in the day st george won i think 11 comps straight. That would have pissed off alot of people as they were a rich club buying all the players.

In the current comp if it was gone than the broncos would have the strongest team as the have the most sponsorship and even the people that show up to games thousands more than sydney clubs. Im a broncs fan and although i would love all star rosters, games would be boring coz everyone else would get owned.

I agree it should be changed. the third party payment rule should be removed. If a company want to sponsor a player well that should be allowed. also the 'marquee player bonus' of '10 year player discount' could be introduced. i see them as viable quick solutions i mean if youve been playing for ten years than you wouldnt have much left and its goo to repay the stars for there future for all the excitement they gave us during games

Answer 6

The salary cap is restraint of trade plain and simple.

A player of contact sport has a limited life span at top level and should be able to earn as much as possible in that time without interference from league officials who have no salary cap placed on them. 10 years at the top is the most a forward could relay hope for followed by a life time of pain from the injuries that all elite players suffer. $5million vs life time pain seems a poor deal

for a man under the media microscope 24/7.

I support SBW 100% and i'm sure any fair minded person who has spent the time playing hard contact sport knows what i mean

Answer 7

The salary cap is there to try and bring some equality to the teams and spread the quality around the teams.  In my opinion it is not a perfect system, but you have to give it to the administrators of the game for trying to get some equality into the game.  I personally think that if you scrap the cap, you will loose teams from the comp.  Many clubs just scrape by as it is and if somone like the Broncos can afford to pay $1,000,000. plus salaries where will the quality go.  It will always go to the money.  Yet the poorer clubs in the lower socioeconomic areas will suffer greatly and ultimately have to close the doors or merge with other clubs.  History will repeat itself, and the comp will be in trouble.  Next thing there will be a second comp running with big money and all the quality will go there.  Hey, if the do that, why dont we name the comp Superleague

Answer 8

I've said this before in regards to another question that the salary cap itself should not only remain but should in fact be strengthened so clubs do not jeopardise their own existence by promising ridiculous amounts of money to lure stars. There is a finite amount of money available to Australian sporting clubs (of any code) and in Sydeny it's getting even tighter with legislative changes impacting on club based income.

The area that needs to be restructured as it relates to Australian sports that have a salray cap system is third party payments. If a player has a high enough profile from his or her chosen sport then their ability to earn through sponsorships and endorsements should not be subject to salary cap scrutiny. The money from their primary employer (ie. the club) yes, anything from secondary employers NO!

This is the major difference in Australian sport to European and North American (for those sports that have a salary cap). In the US the NFL has a salary cap but it does not take into account anything earnt outside the franchise structure therefore not limiting the earnings of high profile players.

Players will always be lured to Europe for their big payday for the simple fact they can earn far more in club salary alone and then double or triple that with endorsement revenue.

Answer 9

We should stop blaming other sports and fix RL. RL stole athletes from other under paying sports for decades and now the shoe is on the other foot. The NRL did little to prevent Chris Walker breaking contracts mid season and I am glad they have little legal grounds to pursue SBW on. RL needs to be fixed or it will perish. Perhaps if the fans suported their teams (AFL clubs have 50 000 members) and the sport more money would be available to retain players. I don't blame SBW; his leaving is a sign of the times; I blame RL.

Answer 10

How would you like to have the capacity to earn $1 000 000 salary per year only to be told that you will be paid half this amount?  Would you:

                                    A: forfeit $500 000 or,

                                    B: go to another employer who will pay this amount.  (Be honest.)

Answer 11

Go back before Super League and you had clubs being of a mind set that short terms results were more important than long term stability.

Super League came along and we saw both sides prepared to bankrupt clubs in an effort to secure the best players. The "war" ended and we did see clubs fold because they were not financially viable.

Has the administration of clubs changed so drastically that some would not again risk short term glory over the long term responsibility?

Without the salary cap (or the Williams issue) would we see the Bulldogs spending twice the current cap in an attempt to make the top 4 next season after a poor season this year?

Would we see the Roosters/Broncos tying up countless great youth players so other clubs do not have the chance to sign them?

Would the Knights have made some possibly disasterious decisions to retain all their top players in the late 90's early 2000's regardless of the ability for the club to survive under those debts 10 years later?

No matter the sport Europe and the Americas will always be in a position to offer higher player payments, look at soccer, they have survived and grown despite knowing that talented players will always earn more overseas.

Regardless of restraint of trade, regardless of losing players overseas. If the sport wants to survive into the next decade it needs the salary cap, if it doesn't I wont mind, I wont even pretend to be a huge league fan but it would be a shame to see another popular sport risk itself over a few players and some very poor media reporting.

Answer 12

man the salary cap is weird.

Answer 13

would love to see the salary cap raised but we cant bin it ether. if we bin it, we lose teams and have sides with all the stars verse the rest( like the dragons of the 70s). we cant raise it at the moment because there is no more money to give players because of the recent tax's put on clubs and lack of planning done by the nrl. if we restructure the comp and allow players to get there own sponsors( and dont add what they make in there sponsors to the salary cap) then we might be right. look at tennis, American basketball, NFL, NHL, cricket  and other sports played over the world the players get there on Field payment then what ever they can make off the field. the nrl should allow players to do this it might just take pressure off clubs to pay there players as much and they still make the big bucks without having to leave or shores.

Answer 14

What a disgrace our "sporting heroes" have become!

Once upon a time not so long ago, footballers played for the love of the game. It was something they did on the weekends because they LOVED THE GAME...remember that?

Once upon a time not so long ago, Clubs paid game fees and a small salary and provided their players with training to earn an income away from the game

The worst decision ever made was to bow to these "Prima donnas", "Marquee players", "Super athletes" and pay them outrageous amounts of money.

Look at professional sport of any type and you will see ridiculous amounts of money being paid and they wonder why spectators are deserting in droves.

The fairy tale that sports careers have become has to come to an end.

Should the salary cap be changed to keep players? Absolutely not ! stuff 'em.

Answer 15

you must have a salary cap otherwise there will be only 6 teams playing nrl

players should be allowed to make money outside of their football contracts

whether it is doing commericals,writing for a newspaper,flogging a product other sporting players do it why not nrl players.

Answer 16

I think the NRL need to adopt a point system where players are worth different amounts and a club can only add up to a certain amount.  The points can be judged on rep games experience etc this way players could earn what they are worth and it could still be a fair for everyone.  As for what Sonny actually did I think its a DOG act although I think we should just let him go unless he owes money to the Bulldogs I think they should cut him loose

Answer 17

Every club CEO keeps saying the nrl is a business. So run it like a business. Most clubs are lazy and don't go hunting for more revenue because it doesn't matter how much money you have because you can only spend so much. So scrap the salary cap and lets see have much more money can be found. And if clubs can't compete financial than maybe they don't belong in the comp.