We need a high profile Rooster to crack the ****s and blow their empire up with the biggest whistle ever!!!
You don't need anyone really.
If the NRL know the TPA amount is 200k, and they know the cap is 9.x mil, and they have the registered contracts of every player, and those contracts are => agreed market value, then the math with explain it?
My understanding of the contracts are that ;
1) they must be at a minimum the NRL value the player (TPA excluded). The Gifty issue springs to mind.
2) they must contain the total remuneration paid to the player under the cap + the separate TPA. This is what we were punished for "guaranteeing" the TPA.
As I see it the only issues are
1) Is the NRL complicit in allowing for undervalued Rorters roster valuations in order to firstly enable Uncle Nick to mathematically be cap compliant ?
2) Is the NRL blind to non disclosed additional payments (19th hole bets etc) to make up the difference between the cap value for the Rorters and the MV other teams would have to pay for those players?
To me the NRL firstly must be complicit (point 1) and then incompetent (point 2).
Of course players will take unders to play for Uncle Nick, and to be in premiership windows yearly. The NRL values maybe also be considered per contract, but not necessarily reviewed on upgrades for market values. For example Latrell Mitchell in 2016 on 90K cap value (which was reasonable) may not be revised until a "new contract" is registered.
Perhaps extensions are excluded from NRL agreed value revisions?
At the risk of repeating myself now I will stop here, and perhaps some others can shed some light.