Bring back Northern Tours

[titoelcolombiano]

The point about playing for your country being an honour is 100% accurate. I do realise though that the huge rep payments were brought in when the big TV money came along as a way to keep our top stars in the game. It was around that time that guys like Folau, Hunt, Burgess and Hayne were leaving for other codes and prior to that we lost Kangaroos such as Rodgers, Sailor and Tuquiri and the Kiwis lost SBW. This is in addition to the countless Superleage players lost to Union.

The admin had to do something to keep the stars in the game. Wtih international competitiveness good at the moment and some good things on the horizon (the continued strengthening of Tonga, PNG, Samoa, Fiji and hopefully France and Wales) it is a great time to look at an international player payment scheme so that all nations can keep their stars in the game and players are paid the same and therefore choose which country their heart really lies with, without being penalised financially for doing so.

I'm happy if the NRL are involved in this but it should be primarily run by the RLIF.

 

[Last Week]

It wouldn't be playing for less, it would be playing for what they used to. This tens of thousands of dollars for playing one game thing is only a recent thing.

And f**k off, they aren't owed anything. Nobody is owed money for the privilege of playing for your country. And it's not about other countries not being able to pay their players, it's about why we are spending millions in match payments for one game when the money could be better spent growing the game elsewhere and when (as shown by the Australia v Tonga match) players are quite happy to play for much less when given the opportunity to play in meaningful games.

You're delusional.

 

[Valheru]

The money for rep games is a tough one. Sure, no one should require money to represent their country but on the other hand, if these games are making millions of dollars, why should the people who are drawing that money (the players) not benefit?

 

[Perth Red]

The money for rep games is a tough one. Sure, no one should require money to represent their country but on the other hand, if these games are making millions of dollars, why should the people who are drawing that money (the players) not benefit?

Be nice to think they'd rather see the money going to strengthen the international game but lets not kid ourselves. Id have thought $15-20k a game was more than enough for them to get out of bed for? Wouldbe good to see a profit sharing arrangement where 5% of any profit from International games goes to the RLIF for development.

 

[deluded pom?]

The point about playing for your country being an honour is 100% accurate. I do realise though that the huge rep payments were brought in when the big TV money came along as a way to keep our top stars in the game. It was around that time that guys like Folau, Hunt, Burgess and Hayne were leaving for other codes and prior to that we lost Kangaroos such as Rodgers, Sailor and Tuquiri and the Kiwis lost SBW. This is in addition to the countless Superleage players lost to Union.

The admin had to do something to keep the stars in the game. Wtih international competitiveness good at the moment and some good things on the horizon (the continued strengthening of Tonga, PNG, Samoa, Fiji and hopefully France and Wales) it is a great time to look at an international player payment scheme so that all nations can keep their stars in the game and players are paid the same and therefore choose which country their heart really lies with, without being penalised financially for doing so.

I'm happy if the NRL are involved in this but it should be primarily run by the RLIF.

I don’t disagree with your comments but SL hasn’t lost countless players to union. A handful at most.