NEWS - Jackson Hastings - Perils of Being a Star Young Footballer

[Class of 96]

sigh

Doing a 'complete 360' about the way you look at things means you look at things the same way!!!

It's 180 degrees people!!!! sheesh (The journo should have told him - dumbass)


He has good points though. Good on him for saying it.

I did a 180 and ended up at the next pub!

 

[Loobs]

Hey mate. Yes, there are rookie contracts in the NHL, where upon expiry the player becomes a Restricted Free Agent - That would most certainly be ideal in my opinion. Rookie contracts are determined by age - which then determines tenure.

A player can actually play a number of games (9, I think?) and not burn one of those years in the rookie contract.

Restricted Free Agents means no matter what offer comes across the table, the club who's player is currently under contract, gets last port of call - they can basically match the offer, or let the player go, and the club buying the player gets penalised draft picks for doing so (offers, and what it costs them are below):

Average Annual Value RFA Compensation
Less than $1,239,226 Nothing
Over $1,239,226 to $1,877,615 Third-round pick
Over $1,877,615 to $3,755,233 Second-round pick
Over $3,755,233 to $5,632,847 First and third-round picks
Over $5,632,847 to $7,510,464 First, second and third-round picks
Over $7,510,464 to $9,388,080 Two firsts, a second and third-round picks
Over $9,388,080 Four first-round picks

The difficulty with those rules though, and The NRL, is that we have no draft, which means cashed up clubs will just come in and offer mountains like they do now (see Jack Bird), and not be penalised anything, so it would be exactly the way it is now.

That being said, rookie contracts WOULD be good if it means that if the players current club matches the offer, they have to stay, until they become and unrestricted free agent.

Yeah that's it - it's an interesting structure. As we have no draft, it would have to be something like we can poach anyone from your under 20's squad or something, but aren't they doing away with that? Also would be tough on kids that say got picked up by the Warriors or something. There would be a way to make it work though...

 

[Shoe1]

Hey mate. Yes, there are rookie contracts in the NHL, where upon expiry the player becomes a Restricted Free Agent - That would most certainly be ideal in my opinion. Rookie contracts are determined by age - which then determines tenure.

A player can actually play a number of games (9, I think?) and not burn one of those years in the rookie contract.

Restricted Free Agents means no matter what offer comes across the table, the club who's player is currently under contract, gets last port of call - they can basically match the offer, or let the player go, and the club buying the player gets penalised draft picks for doing so (offers, and what it costs them are below):

Average Annual Value RFA Compensation
Less than $1,239,226 Nothing
Over $1,239,226 to $1,877,615 Third-round pick
Over $1,877,615 to $3,755,233 Second-round pick
Over $3,755,233 to $5,632,847 First and third-round picks
Over $5,632,847 to $7,510,464 First, second and third-round picks
Over $7,510,464 to $9,388,080 Two firsts, a second and third-round picks
Over $9,388,080 Four first-round picks

The difficulty with those rules though, and The NRL, is that we have no draft, which means cashed up clubs will just come in and offer mountains like they do now (see Jack Bird), and not be penalised anything, so it would be exactly the way it is now.

That being said, rookie contracts WOULD be good if it means that if the players current club matches the offer, they have to stay, until they become and unrestricted free agent.

The beauty of that system is its complexity. Nrl clubs and managers would take years to work it out hence low rorting risk.

 

[manlyfan76]

The beauty of that system is its complexity. Nrl clubs and managers would take years to work it out hence low rorting risk.

Could you imagine the old parra board looking at it!