haha typical pollie, spend more on everything but save some as well. How much surplus each year do you think the NRL is going to have? So what would your target for a cash asset reserve be (not a future fund which as a very different thing and is money put away with an expectation of expending it over the coming duration). It seems you didn't like Smith's $80mill target so what by the end of this latest cash windfall for the game do you think the NRL should have in the bank by 2022?
and we dont know what this years surplus is yet, note surplus, not profit, (and likely less than Smiths surpluses in 13&14 despite much greater revenue) they are very different things in a business like the NRL's. Maybe they should have been spending that surplus on grass roots and expanding the NRLW or the multitude of other bottomless pits the NRL could spend its money on? Again you seem confused about if a surplus is a good thing or should be neutral bottom line as the game is investing all its money in its core activities.