Jatz Crackers
First Grader
jbb/james said:The main reason for this was the agreed increase in the cap was benchmarked before the Tv rights was done. So it was a hyperthetical amount so the clubs had a total to work with for player recruitment. As the deal was struck late in the season the NRL believed it may disadvantage some team to make the cap higher as the recruitment plan may have differed
At this stage the talk is about incremental increase of the cap over the length of the TV deal however i feel this is a massive mistake
The game needs more depth more than in needs 10% of the stars having massive increases and as i see it raising the cap in increments will really just allow player managers to set a system to that a few achieve a lot more each year as chief playmakers come off contract
All clubs should be told here is another million, get 4 more players each back from england by 2014 to strengthen the comp and provide depth. It doesnt matter where they come from as long as its not from the NRL or affiliations. We just want more talent in the game
The NRL has a real chance to improve the product here, not just make a few players from each team happy
Good point JBB though I dont think thats out of the question.
The NRL has stated it will be increasing the player minimum and with that those players inbetween that & the select few at the top will command some sort of increase in accordance.
So I dont think the spread of the dollar will be limited to those purely at the top despite (no doubt) the player managers wanting to promote that.
So long as the incremental cap increase, and the delay in deciding on expansion, means a strengthening of the league overall, then im quite happy with the progress of the ARLC and Im quite OK with the staggered increase of cap over the next 5 years.