The minimum wage should be $100,000 for a full time player. Its pathetic. :bdh:
You do a trade, and you go 4 years on less than $600 a week. First year you usually get under $400, sometimes even less than $300. And that's slogging it out 48 weeks a year, 6 days a week, 8-10 hr days.
And what's the minimum wage for a nrl squad player? 50k? I would take that for only training 5 or days a week for 2-3hrs in a flash, especially when there's an opportunity of earning hundreds of thousands a year for playing footy!! Also remembering the footy season is maybe 32 odd weeks at the most... 16 extra weeks off a year would be nice!
And does playing footy make a bloke completely unable to get a normal job like anyone else after they retire? They certainly have alot more time on their hands to study part time than the normal person doing it 2 or 3 nights a week after working 10 hrs.
Dead set, these guys sometimes forget how it is to live like the blokes sitting on the hill...
Isn't monoghan on 3.2Mill???
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You do a trade, and you go 4 years on less than $600 a week. First year you usually get under $400, sometimes even less than $300. And that's slogging it out 48 weeks a year, 6 days a week, 8-10 hr days.
And what's the minimum wage for a nrl squad player? 50k? I would take that for only training 5 or days a week for 2-3hrs in a flash, especially when there's an opportunity of earning hundreds of thousands a year for playing footy!! Also remembering the footy season is maybe 32 odd weeks at the most... 16 extra weeks off a year would be nice!
And does playing footy make a bloke completely unable to get a normal job like anyone else after they retire? They certainly have alot more time on their hands to study part time than the normal person doing it 2 or 3 nights a week after working 10 hrs.
Dead set, these guys sometimes forget how it is to live like the blokes sitting on the hill...
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6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 12 | |
6 | 4 | 2 | 53 | 10 | |
5 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 10 | |
6 | 4 | 2 | 48 | 8 | |
6 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 8 | |
5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | |
7 | 4 | 3 | -18 | 8 | |
6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 7 | |
7 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 7 | |
7 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 6 | |
6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 6 | |
5 | 2 | 3 | -15 | 6 | |
7 | 3 | 4 | -41 | 6 | |
6 | 2 | 4 | -5 | 4 | |
6 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 4 | |
6 | 1 | 5 | -102 | 4 | |
5 | 0 | 5 | -86 | 2 |