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    What is your most unpopular opinion about the NRL?

    I'm sick of the entire game and everyone in it, it is heading down a bad path that if it doesn't wake the f**k up it will go the way of union. It's a frog in a pot of water, slowly boiling to death without realising it.
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    What is your most unpopular opinion about the NRL?

    Cameron Smith is an arrogant prick.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    You said "Again today we have origin players, Smith, Malloney and others being asked by reporters about the Arlc/nrl negotiations because clubs leaked emails from the Nrl to clubs in confidence." Those players were being asked about this; To which I queried why it couldn't have been the NRL...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    Go find out what Smith is whinging about today and come back. You are all over the shop.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    No, the clubs are getting $13m pa, a cashflow problem for three months between the end and start of the new rights cycle is not going to prevent that. Unlike the majority of clubs? The majority of clubs are loss makers, that was their whole argument for needing greater funding, including Gould...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    Of course they wouldn't be sustainable, but the point is it's the clubs with the big leagues club backing that want a big cap and less grant because they know they have the leagues club to cover their losses. Until the leagues club runs into problems and suddenly can't, like the dragons.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    Had the nrl not propped up these clubs there wouldn't be a $2bn rights deal to fight over!
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    It was originally 130% of cap, plus $1.5m per club annually and 100m pa to 'grassroots'. Once the NRL informed Grant that the game couldn't possibly afford such a deal the NRL pulled the MOU and clubs went after grant, only for Grant to save himself by agreeing to a deal of $13m per club...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    4 clubs are still standing only because the NRL were forced to bail them out. Coincidentally two of those clubs fell into trouble when the leagues clubs could no longer cover the football clubs losses. It's not sustainable.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    What do you deem are "rightful earnings"? Obviously it's more than $13m p.a.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    You referenced a leaked report to clubs from the NRL about players CBA demands, which players were being asked to respond about. The NRL would clearly benefit because it paints the RLPA as being greedy and unreasonable within the financial constraints of the game.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    How do you know the NRL didn't leak it to the media, or even the RLPA? There are many vested interests in the CBA and they are all vying for community support for their agendas.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    rubbish, they are getting $13m a year, they are the primary recipients of the rights deal. Gould thinks the NRL's role should be that of a shell company, existing only to funnel it's revenue to the clubs who just expect to be trusted to run decentralised community & development programs that...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    Castle was unaware? She would have to be as naïve as you.
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    It was widely reported that Smith & Grant were butting heads, primarily over club funding! Coincidence? And like the latest club funding bungle where Grant threw Greenberg & Crawford under the bus, he did the same thing with Smith and the TV deal, despite the commission having to have signed off...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    How many more people have to leave the NRL because they couldn't work for John Grant.
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    Castle Quits as CEO

    of course it did, she publicly rebuked dib & his cronies for talking to the RLPA behind the back of the NRL subcommittee responsible for negotiating the CBA , of which Castle was a member. Dibb & Politis want a big salary cap because they have the leagues club backing to underwrite any losses...
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    QLD Team 2017

    only because Bennett forced them into finally making a call, the QRL are now saying they were always only giving him until today, and blaming Bennett for suggesting anything different, bullshit! Cameron Smith quoted yesterday, "Kevvie has told us ... JT will be given until kick-off to be...
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    QLD Team 2017

    Media finally woken up to it. The NRL are going to have to get involved, they can't allow a player named in the starting side to be replaced by the 18th man without injury, especially when that player is released on the basis he will be playing, preventing him from fulfilling his club duties...
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    ARLC Commission Changes

    More like Tony Crawford, certain clubs have been gunning for him for years, which Grant of course knows. What better way to deflect from his position than to rebuke the guy the clubs hate even more than you.

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