2018 salary cap

[Ned Kelly]

What a schomozzle !!!

Some teams decide to spend above the salary cap they where told to stay under and cry poor when the cap turns out to be what they where led to believe it would be.

NRL says they will have until round one next year to get it right.

Now it seems a minority of clubs can make the NRL increase the cap after they went overs buying players they shouldn't have.

If the NRL gives in it will be another case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting the picture.

If the NRL caves perhaps they can say O.K. every club gets more and the players that have been signed with clubs like the dogs and raiders who where over the cap mentioned recently have to release those players and not enter into negotiations with them for the same period of time they jumped the gun giving the clubs that played fair a fair go in the player market.

If the teams that over spent get an unfair advantage why would fans of the disadvantaged teams bother to follow Rugby League?

 

[Spot On]

The NRL, as per usual, just need to grow a set.

 

[siv]

The issue is not growing the cap by the extra $400k

Its the fact that this $400k comes off the bottom line immediately as the grant is locked in for 5 years

Would have been MUCH smarter to progressively increase the cap and the grant every year till we achieved the double situation

Jumping immediately from $7 mil cap to $9.2 mil or $9.6 mil

AND jumping the grant from $7 mil to $13 mil has created a SL War style contract market

The lucky few in 2018 and 2019 will get a benefit the rest will miss out

 

[Munted]

Love to know why type of calculator des is using. merkin should have replaced it back at manly.
What a trail of shit that Desmond leaves behind.

 

[Nice Beaver]

If this cap gets increased to appease the Dogs, Roosters, Canberra etc then Greenberg should hand in his resignation.

It will be pure lunacy to allow the f*ckwit clubs to dictate the cap because of their own arrogance and stupidity.

 

[Perth Red]

According to Brown every club was told to work to a cap of $9.1mill. If some clubs have ignored this it isn't the NRL's problem.

 

[Nice Beaver]

According to Brown every club was told to work to a cap of $9.1mill. If some clubs have ignored this it isn't the NRL's problem.

Exactly.

They were told twice in fact. Once in April, then again in May.

They just cannot bend to suit these arrogant shits.

 

[Fufu Andronez]

f**k the dogs, you took a gamble and you lost. Man up and fix your cap issues

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Firstly, who are we paying that is worth 9.6 million?

Secondly, those clubs that gambled on the higher cap need to get cap compliant at the 9.2 million rate.

When you gamble you usually lose.

 

[Life's Good]

Clubs have had plenty of time to prepare. NRL needs to use this to get one over the clubs for caving in on the funding. Greenberg will be a laughing stock if the Dogs get their way and the cries of nepotism will be loud & justified.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

And dickhead grant says I'll give you 130% of the cap..

Essentially asking clubs to spend overs to get more money

Are these blokes for real

 

[Diesel]

If Greenbug caves in, we riot

 

[Iafeta]

If the NRL were to concede, it'd penalise teams who are playing by the rules. As far as the Dogs go, they knew what the cap was. Raelene Castle told Jim Doyle that they hadn't even offered Foran a deal at the time it was all over the news he had signed there, when at the time he hadn't. She said how could they as they didn't know what the cap was going to be. So they knew.

Then even when the cap was finalised, Adam Elliott for some god unknown reason was evidently a target for the Warriors. Canterbury despite being over the nominated cap resigned him anyway. They've prevented clubs fair and just access to other clubs by offering money no one was allowed to. The Knights were at one point negotiating with Foran, why should they have missed out to a club who had no intention of complying with salary cap rules.

NRL cannot record a selfish corrupt spending spree that was unfair to other clubs bidding in the open market.

 

[Captain Apollo]

The one thing I find laughable in all this is that everyone is carrying on that it is solely the NRL will be determining the salary cap. Based on what has been said to date, the collective bargaining negotiations between the NRL and the RLPA will have a massive say on the salary cap. For everyone to jst ignore that factor is ludicrous.

 

[Ned Kelly]

I love what every one has been saying.

Just curios though, If new players start training with a club in November are their weekly wages part of the current years salary cap or next years?

If the bulldogs where paying Woods and Foran until a week before 2018 then couldn't sign them will those payments be part of their 2018 cap?

 

[Ned Kelly]

The one thing I find laughable in all this is that everyone is carrying on that it is solely the NRL will be determining the salary cap. Based on what has been said to date, the collective bargaining negotiations between the NRL and the RLPA will have a massive say on the salary cap. For everyone to jst ignore that factor is ludicrous.

There are various factors at play but there is no denying it is a mess with possible disastrous consequences and an outcome of inequality.

 

[Billythekid]

Letting the dogs keep who they've signed is punishment enough. They're f**ked for next year anyway.

Seriously though the clubs knew not to go over 9.1 million. There's no reason for the NRL to cave in here.

 

[nick87]

This is mostly about the Bulldogs
Based on the information coming out of the Raiders, as long as the cap exemption for the long serving player is increased as expected and as all clubs agree it should be, it sounds like that's going to sort the raiders issues out.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

If these clubs want to spend $400k over the cap let them, provided they start on minus 20 points next year.

 

[Nice Beaver]

The one thing I find laughable in all this is that everyone is carrying on that it is solely the NRL will be determining the salary cap. Based on what has been said to date, the collective bargaining negotiations between the NRL and the RLPA will have a massive say on the salary cap. For everyone to jst ignore that factor is ludicrous.

Regardless of who the parties are in determining the final outcome, all clubs were told what figure to work with.

Most have. A few have given a big "f*ck you" and ignored the directive.

I could care less who the parties are that determine the end figure.

Fact is a few clubs have done as they please and now want the goalposts moved soley for their own interests.

F*ck them.