Yes the strongest always survive... this fact has been true for billions of years.
Get strong or quit whinging about it, no club has a divine right to play in the NRL and if your club needs a helping hand to make it a level playing field then they're probably holding the game back.
I do feel for the supporters because in all honesty there's little we can do to influence the way our clubs are run and who they are run by when you really sit down and look at it. But your anger at the NRL is misguided, they shouldn't be handicapping their strongest performers just so their weaker performers can play catch up. That's just bad business.
That's exactly the sole reason of a salary cap. You'd nearly prefer they just get rid of it completely cause so we can see how it really is.
Like I said I don't expect you to get what it's like to lose a guy like this. Someone you'd heard about in the matts team as a kid to watch out for. Heard that your great white hope was debuting at NYC level so getting to the game early to see him. Chatting to guys on the hill 'that Tedesco kid looks alright' Then having him debut for your club at a suburban home ground. Watch him progress and then move into his prime as the player you'd always hoped he would be.
Then get snatched up by another club for 'less money' who realistically don't give a shit about him and if he has one average season or a serious injury will shop him around without a second thought and move on to the next wonderkid that someone else developed.
Part of the reason I love rugby league so much is the tribalism between Sydney clubs. I see that greatly disappearing and to me stuff like this has everything to do with it.
I loved the 2005 grand final win so much more because of guy's like Benji, Gibbs, Fulton, Farah, Harrison, Collis, Laffranchi, Heighington ET. who id been watching for years coming through the grades. They were now showing what we'd always hoped they could do on the big stage and I have no doubts I enjoyed that more then if I watched my club win a como with 15 guys they'd bought in the last 3 years.
Like I said I'd been talking about Tedesco with mates who support the club for 3 years before you'd even heard of him. You love your club and you're used to them buying whoever they want, that's fine. They do it that way and they do it bloody well.
My team can't do that, not yet and maybe never. So I get enjoyment and hope out of watching the kids they've brought through.