Garts said it better than me here -- I can't blame a prof footballer taking the biggest pay cheque he can get (and when you think of the money the nrl, the merchandisers, and the media etc are making off their broken bodies I think they deserve alot more compared to golfers, tennis players, soccer players etc). Yes these guys like foz and DCE are at the top of the tree and making serious dough, but the average income of an nrl first grader over a 10 yr career is more like your regular person than you'd imagine -- and then they're on the scrapheap. If they've got a bit of a clue they've set themselves up, but let's face it they have not made it to first grade for their brains or maturity. And their job has meant they've had little time to do much else but train and play for about 15 yrs.
And even though he's a miserable sour faced bore, I'm with Wayne bennett about the need for the nrl to sort out a proper transfer window or season or what not. As he said, it seems like it's more about what's going on off the field than on these days.