After a player has retired why should the NRL continue to fund them if they fall upon hard times? I don’t see any companies looking after retired employees.
The fact that some ex players are shit with money and have gambled and pissed their earnings against a wall is not the NRL’s responsibility. There are plenty of people in society in worse situations that ex players.
Must agree Henry , they have been paid extremely well throughout their careers for their talent and their contribution to the game itself .
Many have obtained the type of money that the average joe can only dream about , yet as you have said some would appear to have no conception of the importance of putting money away for a rainy day - that being when their football life is over .
They should own a house and have money in the bank when that day does eventually arrive . Many do , however the chaps who have nothing remaining only have themselves to blame .
How many here on this forum can recall the days of waking at 4 in the morning and finally arriving home at 5 - 6 in the afternoon , working in a factory day in , day out with the obligatory 4 hours on Saturday , with the train journeys monotonous and tiring in themselves ?
But those years have gone - back to the present , to see the princely sums that so many players have secured for their contracts is to me unseemly , perhaps one could compare them to the value of real estate in our country - well and truly overpriced .
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