2018 salary cap

[Stormwarrior82]

Rugby League really is a f**king meat head sport at times

Australian Rules Football will eat us alive if we carry on the same way
The revenue the game generates is being distributed as an upside down pyramid - it's all top heavy

The AFL targets schools and junior football - basically getting everyone playing the game, even if they're never going to become players - they don't care. They just want people to love them and will do all they can to win the hearts and minds of kids. They play the long game.

In the meantime, we're turning a few players into multi millionaires and saying "those dudes are f**king loaded, while you're poor - worship them, love us"

I wonder how long it will be before the majority say "go f**k yourselfs, you selfish f**king twats"

This doesn’t make too much sense to me. Just because you say it, doesn’t mean it’s true. First off you start comparing rugby league to the afl. And then say we are revenue top heavy. Looking at the afl annual report compared to the Nrl it’s a similar development spend (afl $41.6mil - Nrl $29.3mil) and Nrl going to spend $80mil plus each yr from now on. It seems to come down to the afl media department. They are good at making it look better than it actually is. On wages, One example is afl ceo is paid $1.74 mil compared to Todd at ~$1 mil not top heavy there. Ablett was paid a motsa compared to Nrl players for years. Hardly a issue when you compare us to a code that we want to surpasse. Maybe you could argue that the afl get more bang for there buck but spendwise it isn’t too different.

 

[Perth Red]

During the life of this deal clubs will be getting just over 40% of nrl generated revenue. I don’t think that is excessive. The microscope we need to be putting on is what the f**k is the other 60% being spent on and how is it achieving the games strategic goals!

 

[Stormwarrior82]

During the life of this deal clubs will be getting just over 40% of nrl generated revenue. I don’t think that is excessive. The microscope we need to be putting on is what the f**k is the other 60% being spent on and how is it achieving the games strategic goals!

I would actually expect most clubs at the end of this next tv deal to not need extra funding above the salary cap. The extra funds clubs now receive allow parra/Penrith leagues club to help spend there excess profit on other things (more pokies). Everyone has a differing opinion on how to spend that 60% though. You prefer to spend it on expansion yesterday. The Nrl want to let the current clubs run a profit while also increasing the media/digital department. Getting stuff done would be a lot easier without a hostile clubland and media.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

they should invest some into getting lockyers throat fixed

 

[Vee]

I would actually expect most clubs at the end of this next tv deal to not need extra funding above the salary cap.

You really think the clubs will surrender that now they have it?

 

[Stormwarrior82]

You really think the clubs will surrender that now they have it?

No Not without a fight no doubt. Something that has been glossed over during the Rlpa negotiations was the fact that players wanted a share of clubs revenue. Now it was dismissed reasonably quickly. But I think it has merit. There is a lot of the Nrl clubs that have highly successful leagues clubs that generate 10’s of millions of dollars and some in the 100’s, off the back of a history in the Nrl. Players have recently got Intellectual Property provisions put in there EBA and the clubs need to pull there weight there to. Having a similar funding system like the Afl is the next step. Due to all sorts of ownership structures within the Nrl, finding a happy medium will definitely be hard. The Nrl has been clear that the club funding deal which they reached with the clubs has peaked. The Nrl wants clubs to be financially stable, that is why the clubs got the deal they got. They shouldn’t be just excepting the same without something back next tv deal.

 

[siv]

Have they announced it yet ???

 

[ANTiLAG]

Have they announced it yet ???

They'll announce it to each club seperately. They gotta start with the Sombreyo clubs first to access the free player market

 

[LineBall]

Roosters Relocate Headquarters To Bermuda In Effort To Stay Under Salary Cap
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From Bondi to Bermuda, it’s a move that could shock the NRL to its core.


The Sydney Roosters have announced that they are planning on relocating their headquarters to the small North Atlantic Island of Bermuda.

It comes after the Sydney Roosters landed another big name signing in Angus Crichton and many in the sporting world were left wondering how long before the club came down in flames.

Phillip Olivio who works as the Head of Accounting at the Roosters explained that this whole salary cap thing can be worked around with a little bit of smart bookkeeping.

“The trick is not to go and do dumb shit like giving players boats and that like they did down in Melbourne,” he said.

We asked Olivio whether the whole Parramatta Eels saga made then jump before they were pushed.

“Haha did you see what they were getting up to in Parra. They were putting these Third Party Agreements on napkins and then giving the boys cash…… Jesus Christ. Even if we stayed we wouldn’t be doing basic stuff like that.”

“You gotta play smart boys. We are off to The British Territory of Bermuda so we don’t get caught for rorting this thing. That way we can get ourselves a 2000’s Melbourne Storm team that’s actually on the books,” he said.

Olivio said that fans don’t have to worry, there will be no name changes or anything of the like, only a change of backdoor process to sign good players.