Why are salary totals in rugby capped when footballers can be payed thousands?

Question

Why are salary totals in rugby capped when footballers can be payed thousands?

Answer 1

Rugby doesn't generate the revenue like it does in football. Also it doesn't have the fan base as in football. So you need or you're better off having salary caps to stop clubs over reching them selves possibly in their enthusiasm for titles. You can't write cheques for money you don't have.

Maybe football also could have tried this out at the initial stages it self. If so, we could have had a much better and a beautiful sport even today.

Answer 2

football is a much bigger sport and the revenue is vast compared to rugby..

Answer 3

Give it time and i've no doubt we will see the same greed factor creeping into rugby ,also remember the" professional " game is relatively new to rugby union , but as the man said "if you want the best you have got to pay the best"

Answer 4

Maybe because they have different rules & governing bodies?

That would be a good place to start I think.

Answer 5

Ticket prices and merchandising. Also overall popularity of the game by fan base. Rugby has only been a professional game for 10 years.

Answer 6

Footballers are VASTLY overpaid........... I think it's disgusting that a footballer can earn more in a WEEK than a nurse does in 10 YEARS.

Answer 7

i know, rugby is way beter with more disicipline, skill and knowlage involved i think that footballers wages are WAY too over-priced but rugby players have reasonable wages.

Answer 8

because more teams in rugby are poor and it would mean they would be at a disadvantage it is a way of making the sport more equal

Answer 9

If it were not the case Rugby clubs would go the same way as many professional football clubs... into a very unstable financial position either permanently dancing on the edge of collapse or requiring a foreign sugar daddy who needs some cover for his money laundering activities.

Bottom line is fans pay for the astronomical wages, if Rugby fans want players on inflated p**s take wages then get your hands in your pockets and pay for it.