It is official! The NRL is the new English Premier League

[Da Doctor]

With Roberts signing with the Jack Ass's, we know that he will NOT be taking a salary cut no matter what contract is registered with the NRL says.

We really have now 4 teams that can seriously contest for the premiership each year, exactly what we see in with the English Premier League.

It all comes down to the ineptitude or scarily the willingness of the NRL to step in and limit TPA's.

If nothing is done soon, we along with others will just be making up the numbers each season, delivered into obscurity no matter how hard we try or well we a run. As any good players we develop will be poached, top coaches will be at the top clubs and our facilities will look like garage home gyms in comparison.

I love my Dragons and always will, but I am beginning to hate the league they have to play in, and that is very sad.

 

[dragondad]

Do you know any Arab sheiks who love rugby league?

 

[Como Connection]

Need the Arncliffe Scots boys to check this out.

 

[Gm5]

except Saints are somewhat dominant in ESL

 

[BennyV]

I dont think you know what 'official' means...

 

[The Nick]

The salary cap seems to pretty much have gone to shit since Gallop left. Many people didn't like how conservative he was with regards to growth of the game but his tenure was the closest we got to an even competition (where every team would have a legitimate shot at the title each year.

 

[Highland Saint]

Are the Cowboys one of the four teams?

 

[Wittenberg]

If he had gone to the Dogs or Souths I would have screamed the house down. One of the biggest issues in the NRL is that no journalist has the guts to write about the negative impact of TPAs or the obvious salary cap problems. No one wants to upset Poilitis, Packer or Greenberg. We are not the same as the EPL yet but possibly within 5 years we will be.

 

[Slippery Morris]

The sole purpose of the salary crap is to spread the talent and make the comp even...........Ummm yeah right.

 

[The Nick]

If he had gone to the Dogs or Souths I would have screamed the house down. One of the biggest issues in the NRL is that no journalist has the guts to write about the negative impact of TPAs or the obvious salary cap problems. No one wants to upset Poilitis, Packer or Greenberg. We are not the same as the EPL yet but possibly within 5 years we will be.

Well when the journalists' employer also happens to own the Broncos it's probably in their best interests to say nothing.

 

[WHOOSHKAA!!]

With Roberts signing with the Jack Ass's, we know that he will NOT be taking a salary cut no matter what contract is registered with the NRL says.

We really have now 4 teams that can seriously contest for the premiership each year, exactly what we see in with the English Premier League.

It all comes down to the ineptitude or scarily the willingness of the NRL to step in and limit TPA's.

If nothing is done soon, we along with others will just be making up the numbers each season, delivered into obscurity no matter how hard we try or well we a run. As any good players we develop will be poached, top coaches will be at the top clubs and our facilities will look like garage home gyms in comparison.

I love my Dragons and always will, but I am beginning to hate the league they have to play in, and that is very sad.

Bet u were"nt complaining when saints won 11 in a row.....

 

[SET2JT]

Never knew Leicester city was a top 4 team.

 

[Dr Fruitbasket Returns]

I don't just want to bash Doust, but in the current business environment he's clearly out of his depth. If we live in a world of TPAs and smart working of the cap (yes, even if that's sailing close to flat out cheating) we need a CEO who understands it and can manipulate it. We can whinge about the clubs that are doing it better than we are, but the truth is, they're just run more effectively. It's embarrassing for us. We're run like a suburban RSL in the 80s.

 

[Objective View]

I don't just want to bash Doust, but in the current business environment he's clearly out of his depth. If we live in a world of TPAs and smart working of the cap (yes, even if that's sailing close to flat out cheating) we need a CEO who understands it and can manipulate it. We can whinge about the clubs that are doing it better than we are, but the truth is, they're just run more effectively. It's embarrassing for us. We're run like a suburban RSL in the 80s.

Yes.

Straight Shooter

 

[BennyV]

I don't just want to bash Doust, but in the current business environment he's clearly out of his depth. If we live in a world of TPAs and smart working of the cap (yes, even if that's sailing close to flat out cheating) we need a CEO who understands it and can manipulate it. We can whinge about the clubs that are doing it better than we are, but the truth is, they're just run more effectively. It's embarrassing for us. We're run like a suburban RSL in the 80s.

100% agree.

 

[dragondad]

Never knew Leicester city was a top 4 team.

The point with Leicester is they will run out of steam because their squad isn't big enough. The 'big' clubs have bigger squads and can cope. Vardy won't last because the vultures will offer gazillions and nab him. I'm not saying this season but it'll happen.

 

[Da Doctor]

Bet u were"nt complaining when saints won 11 in a row.....

No, I definitely wasn't, because I was not alive then!

Back then, you had to play for the district you lived in so the rules were very different and definitely favoured St George.

My gripe, is that the NRL boasts that each year any team can win, when realistically under the current system, only 4 (Brisbane, Roosters, Bulldogs and Souths) will fight it out year on year.

 

[denis preston]

I think that lack of competition for the Broncos market is the real issue. The NRL needs to put a Ipswich side in sooner rather than later.All this bullshit about how well run they are, well no wonder ! The league needs a broncos competitor from the heartland of Brisbane football to dilute this massive advantage.

This needs to be first cab off the rank in regards to expansion.

 

[TruSaint]

No, I definitely wasn't, because I was not alive then!

Back then, you had to play for the district you lived in so the rules were very different and definitely favoured St George.

My gripe, is that the NRL boasts that each year any team can win, when realistically under the current system, only 4 (Brisbane, Roosters, Bulldogs and Souths) will fight it out year on year.

Back then players had full times jobs... Plumbers, Sparkies, and so on. The rules changed when we dominated.

Different era ...

 

[SET2JT]

The point with Leicester is they will run out of steam because their squad isn't big enough. The 'big' clubs have bigger squads and can cope. Vardy won't last because the vultures will offer gazillions and nab him. I'm not saying this season but it'll happen.

Doesn't mean success. Look at Man U and Chelsea. Almost half a billion in players between them and still struggle to score.