Inglis ****show will be interesting

[QueefRichards]

Brisbane will use this for Darius Boyd I guarantee it

 

[Ranga]

Brisbane will use this for Darius Boyd I guarantee it

Absolutely! And I would go further to say, if they don’t, they are bloody stupid! All clubs with players that are 30+ and playing busted are candidates for “Greggy’s Rule”.

 

[davohan123]

Brisbane will use this for Darius Boyd I guarantee it

Plus I can see sharks using it for Paul Gallen, Wade Graham.
Probably storm with cam smith

 

[Ranga]

Plus I can see sharks using it for Paul Gallen, Wade Graham.
Probably storm with cam smith

Scam for sure!

And the stupidity of this decision is that, going forward, it will only be exploited by marquee players who have plum roles lined up for them, just to maximise the player market distortion!

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

@Disco, I can understand your perspective in that all that should be included under the cap is what he is in fact paid.

For me, though, it is a policy issue and the NRL seem unable or unwilling to articulate how this decision is consistent with salary cap policy.

We are constantly told about how the salary cap creates a close competition. It is apparently sacrosanct.

Manly was told that the TPAs offered to its players, even though not paid by the club, had the effect of distorting the player market. This may or may not be true. I still have my doubts about this decision purely because the details of the arrangements and the NRL’s reasons (and the reasons of the review tribunal) are not public. All we can go by was Tod’s self serving statements, which were taken up by his goons.

Signing Inglis to a 4 year deal, then allowing him to retire and giving cap space to Souths also distorts the player market. It effectively allows Souths to double dip on a marquee player when they are the ones that took the risk 3 years ago when they resigned him.

Signing Inglis to a 4 year deal when he was 30 years old was always fraught with danger. That it was him not wanting to play any more, as opposed to him not being able to play any more, is irrelevant from a salary cap perspective. Souths rolled the dice and lost out on the gamble - it is no different to Snake and Matai who were signed to their last contracts in full knowledge of their injury histories. We rolled the dice and lost on the gamble.

Even if Inglis just retired without the promise of another job, I’d argue that good salary cap policy shouldn’t factor this into account. Just because a player is in a financial position to retire mid-contract is irrelevant to salary cap policy. I feel sorry for the player who actually wants to retire and help his club out but can’t financially.

To sum it up, the old policy of only getting salary cap relief for a new career ending injury is sound. While foreseeable that any player might suffer such an injury, this is an objective risk all clubs face equally. That’s why I am fine with the decision not to medically retire and give cap relief for Snake and Matai. We rolled the dice and lost the gamble. It was only farcical because the NRL deemed choc to suffer a new career ending injury in order to get Parra under the cap.

Once again, the NRL had the policy right but just stuff it up in wanting to do favours for some.

@The Who, if the other club CEOs are ok with this, it is only because they are looking forward to exploiting it. It is a free for all now. Eg Cronk could go around another year and if he is playing like a busted, one of Uncle Nick’s buddies will offer him a $500k pa job. It will, of course, be ‘arm’s length’ so none of it will hit the Rooster’s cap.

I am happy to convinced otherwise, but this decision is just so flawed in my opinion and only undermines the salary cap.

The precedent has now been set, IMO another massive **** up from Greenslime and Beatoff.

Let the flood gates open.

 

[Shoe1]

Brisbane will use this for Darius Boyd I guarantee it

Yeah but Boyd played like an immortal against the manly reserves last week according to the media, so he must have a long career ahead.

 

[lsz]

I am with Disco on this one although my big frustration is that there will be zero consistency applied to this rule going forward

 

[MadMarcus]

Plus I can see sharks using it for Paul Gallen, Wade Graham.
Probably storm with cam smith

Cam will get it for sure. Not sure Gallen or Graham will qualify as they play for the Sharks and this is a rule for the favoured clubs only.

 

[Tomay]

Let’s hope the Penns can afford a few big backend Dessie deals in the future. Just promise them massive overs for the seasons they aren’t playing anyway and retire them to ambassador roles.

 

[HappilyManly]

Let’s hope the Penns can afford a few big backend Dessie deals in the future. Just promise them massive overs for the seasons they aren’t playing anyway and retire them to ambassador roles.

Manly always need a new CEO 😀

 

[QueefRichards]

Let’s hope the Penns can afford a few big backend Dessie deals in the future. Just promise them massive overs for the seasons they aren’t playing anyway and retire them to ambassador roles.

Clubs arent allowed to backend the playing contracts like we used to but say if a player was retired with two years left on their playing contract and given a three year ambassadorship role it sounds like the NRL will only look at the cushy job salary for the years where they wouldve otherwise played, not the years they're not.

So on the surface we could backend the cushy job contract

 

[Rackets]

All other clubs with their 30+ players will take advantage until it's Manly's turn then Greenturd will pull the plug with some lousy excuse.

 

[master blaster]

This is an absolute Joke. No one has the b...s to stand up tp these 2 jokers.Its like they have been told that they have to make it up to Souths for kicking them out of the comp a while back. The game is losing its lustre and again, they dont even hide who their favourite teams are. What made me laugh last night was Andy Raymonds comments about how good the ground was at Suncorp after the Tragic, sorry I mean magic round last week, but behind a few of the Bronco,s players ,the ground was cut up pretty bad, divets everywhere. The grounds a disgrace. So to me, they are directed what to say and what not to say about certain teams and grounds

 

[mickqld]

Has now checked into mental health facility. The bloke is struggling big time. Hope he gets the help he needs.

 

[mave]

Has now checked into mental health facility. The bloke is struggling big time. Hope he gets the help he needs.

Yeah, I hope he gets all the help possible.

I'm still not sure though how Souths can swing the cap to allow him to quit playing, and take on a made-up job, outside of the cap.

 

[The Wheel]

Yeah, I hope he gets all the help possible.

I'm still not sure though how Souths can swing the cap to allow him to quit playing, and take on a made-up job, outside of the cap.

Agree obviously not working too hard for Souffs over recent weeks by the sound of things.

He needs to get around the right people - he is in a bad circle of ‘friends’.

Hopefully he can get his life back on track

 

[ALinda]

Hopefully he can’t get his life back on track

Can't 😳....I hope he can get his life back.

Just goes to show you can have plenty of money but its not much use if you haven't got your health (mental and physical)...

 

[The Wheel]

Can't 😳....I hope he can get his life back.

Just goes to show you can have plenty of money but its not much use if you haven't got your health (mental and physical)...

Typo - oops

 

[Cliffymagic]

Yep. Money dont mean nothing if you don't got love and happyness in you. Hope he recovers and goes on to be good mentor for tdays trobled youth.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

It’s gotta be tough for some players who are absolute demigods one day and feather dusters the next.

It’s why I reckon the training for life after football should take place from day 1.