I think greed has everything to do with it, Test players of the past will be rolling over in there graves over his tickets and money comments on playing for Australia.
I saw an example recently relating to this, I Joe Blow is earning 50k a year with his employer and another employer wants to offer Joe 150k to work elsewhere, then why shouldnt he take it. Well he should take it, and probably will, but you can bet your a** that he wouldnt do as much whinging and posing as Hayne.
OMG Hayne is only getting 4 free tickets to the GAME! WE CANT HAVE THAT, hopefully they have a panel discussion and inquiry over this utter mistreatment of Mr Hayne
Shut up Hayne, you pieced together an amazing 4 months of form and now think you are an authority on all things rugby league? Try and back up one year and prove it wasn't luck and people might give a toss what you say
Half of those Test players would have taken the money and run if union and AFL had been in the position to offer them twice as much cash. They weren't given the opportunity, so they stayed.
And Joe Blow doesn't have reporters stopping him before and after training to ask his opinion, so you wouldn't know whether he was whinging about his position or not. Hayne will leave and good on him, he deserves to earn as much as he can and not belimited by an arse-backwards and inflexible salary cap.
Club team match payments = $3000AU
I recall Willie Mason years ago saying that he feels for the minimum wage footballer also and that the cap should increase or be fair on all... take what you want from that. He was earning a lot more than those boys. lol
hayne has had half a season of brilliance
he doesnt even have the consistency that the real champions have
:lol::lol:Take him to the cross, shoot at him again. That shut him up for a while last time.
Love for the game wont get them far when they retire at 30 years old and the vast majority do not have the skills to have a career in the media afterwards. In the end this is their career and it is a short one, so whats the problem with them trying to make as much money as they can?and after that the minimum wage for a footballer was raised.
he actually brought change to the cap
there was a larger than planned raise in the cap then too
but honestly they are offered more for other codes but its not what they love to play
to take SBW's idea of bus drivers
they love to drive buses, and theyre offered double to drive trucks. i suppose you could do that, but its just not the same
which is why everyone returns to the game they love.
so its obvious they do not love the game more than they love the money