The players are not doing themselves any favours.
I was once in a Union and I progressed, through experience and/or talent, up the gradings - from cadet to D,C,B and A-grade. My employer had a budget which provided for a certain number of A-grades etc. Promotion was blocked if all of the A-grade positions were full. The option was for the employer to retrench an employee in order to create a position or find another employer to take the unwanted A-grade.
Why can't such a system work in the NRL? A club's salary cap could stipulate a maximum of, say, three A-grade players (on, say $1m plus)... and so on down the gradings to cadets/rookies on the minimum wage.
This system would make it easy to check which clubs are breaking the salary cap.
Thoughts?
That’s my points system that I have been banging on about for years.
I’m for abandoning the salary cap ( it’s a farce anyway ) but bringing in a points system.
Each side can pay whatever they want to get their 3 top players but they only get 3 as they need to consider their points value.
They can then probably only “ afford “ ( as in points ) 3 on the next tier also.
Each team only gets XXX points , and still has to have 30 players on the list , but you can’t stack your side with with the best players ( even if you’ve got unlimited funds) as they just don’t fit.
Clubs still get a salary to work with ( funded by the game ) anything else from their own funds or sponsors.
Third party bull**** is eliminated.
Now , the rich clubs will still do well , as they’ll be able to buy the top 3 players , and the top tier 2 , tier 3 , tier 4, tier 5 players BUT they can’t stack their sides with 6/8 SOO players and have another 10 fringe SOO players sitting in reserve.
Also , the juniors go into a draft , the last place side gets picks 1 & 2, and the side who won the comp last year gets picks 33/34.
Or something like this , the aim is to spread the talent.
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