Players question the RLPA

[Captain Apollo]

I have no idea if there will be a second players union. Just commented from the mention of it above.

I know. I just thought the suggestion, in the current climate, that a second player's union would spring up is silly.

Last time there was dissatisfaction with the then Rugby League Players Association was back in the early 1990s when the NSWRL had brought in the draft as the then officials of the RLPA did not oppose it, and many players were unhappy. What occurred then? Not a new union, just the players organised and deposed the old officials and elected former player Kevin Ryan as its President. Ryan then locked the RLPA in supporting Terry Hill's court case challenging the legal validity of the draft as a restraint of trade, and we know how that turned out.

If there was disgruntlement amongst the players with the RLPA now, I dare say history would repeat itself. Considering they only had their AGM On Monday 27 March 2017, I doubt that will occur any time soon.

 

[davi]

NRL are unlikely to accept the revenue sharing proposal.


"A salary cap of $9.59 million has been proposed by the NRL for next season but pay talks are set to drag on, with players' demands for a guaranteed share of revenue not being delivered in the governing body's financial offer for the next five years.

Cronulla's James Maloney, Chad Townsend and Wade Graham, as well as South Sydney's George Burgess, joined Rugby League Players' Association chief Ian Prendergast in being presented with the NRL's pay proposal on Thursday. They left underwhelmed despite the NRL's negotiating team laying out what would be significant increases in player salaries over the course of the next collective bargaining agreement.

The cap, which is currently $7m, would rise to $9.59 million next season and be lifted incrementally for the remainder of the deal to average out at $10m over the five years. There are also upwards of $5 million in representative payments from 2018 to 2022.

The players and the administration remain on different pages, however, when it comes to fixed revenue share. Next season's proposed cap figure represents 26 per cent of the game's revenue but players demands for a fixed share of that total – an objective Maloney this week described as "essential" – have not been met in the NRL offer.

"We received the NRL's initial CBA proposal," Prendergast said on Thursday night. "There is a fair amount of detail that we will now need to go away and consider on behalf of players. We will then be in a position to respond with our own comprehensive proposal based on delivering a genuine partnership to help take game forward."

It is understood that the NRL does not believe that the revenue share concept is a workable model in the code partly because it is effectively locked into a funding deal struck with club chairmen in December that sees clubs receive a grant of 130 per cent of player payments up to $13m."

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...s-demand-for-fixed-share-20170330-gvabdw.html

 

[siv]

Cap to jump to $9.5 mil next year is a huge delta increase from $7 mil in 2017

36% increase in one year

This would only make sense if National Reserve Grade was being added

 

[Perth Red]

Also mentioned it would avg out at $10mill over the 5 years so I guess around $9.5 for first 2 years then slight increases over years 3-5?
Its a big jump in one year and hard to see how the players cant be happy with a $2mill going to $3mill a club increase plus rep payments increasing? They are kidding themselves if they think they are going to do better than that, especially with the clubs having locked in a very sweet deal that is going to drain the NRL coffers to the tune of an avg $208mill a year out of a NRL $550mill revenue

 

[Captain Apollo]

This is the part of the article that Davi did not include in his earlier post -

The argument is that if the game's revenue was to nosedive in that period for some reason then it would not jeopardise player payments under the cap but outside-the-cap distribution of funding including retirement benefits, rep payments, player welfare, RLPA funding, career-ending insurance as well as investment in grassroots football.

Next year's proposed $9.59m cap includes $300,000 for six development players as well as a veteran's player allowance and health insurance but the majority is set aside for the clubs' top-30 players. The result is just over $9m for clubs to spend on their NRL squads.

Under the NRL's proposed agreement the minimum wage for a top-30 player would start at about $90,000 excluding match payments next season and rise to $100,000 by the fifth year of the deal. The average NRL player is set to pocket more than $300,000 in 2018 under the terms of the offer.

Talks between the two parties are expected to resume next month.

So (If I understand the above correctly) the cap goes from covering the Top 25 players at a club to the Top 30 players + 6 developmental players (i.e. 36 players).

 

[Hawkins]

Meat Puppets.

Shuddup and run into that other puppet now.