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Hurriflatch

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Silver spoon Roosters

By DEAN RITCHIE

August 25, 2004

SYDNEY Roosters are poised to ask the NRL for controversial salary cap concessions to compensate for the high price of eastern suburbs living.

The club's board will meet to discuss the issue tomorrow night with

sources claiming the concession request could be as much as $200,000.

Roosters chief executive Brian Canavan last night said the cost of living in Sydney's east was considerably higher than for players at regional clubs.

Canavan believes that all clubs being on the same $3.25 million salary cap ($3.3 million next year) provided an "unequal playing field". But NRL chief executive David Gallop said the Roosters' request was "highly unlikely" to be successful.

Canavan said the Swans received significant AFL concessions for living in Sydney.

"There is the cost of inner-city living," Canavan said. "Our board will address this. The game needs the funds but we can't sit still. We're not asking for anything untoward or for anything that other sports haven't considered. It's not based on self-interest.

"There should be concessions for locality issues and for living expenses in the inner city. It is an unequal playing field compared to regional clubs, given they have the same salary cap. It is cheaper to live in regional centres than the inner city.

"We are also restricted in our boundaries. Given we have restricted local juniors, we have to go out and recruit. While we have to be mindful of the poker machine tax, we also have to advance the game and our club. We can't lose the players to rival codes – they are the entertainers and employees."

Gallop said the NRL would find it difficult to allow any concessions.

"It serves to highlight our contention that every club in the competition can claim something that is unique and in their eyes worthy of a concession," Gallop said. "There are plenty of examples of players who live in the eastern suburbs but don't play for the Roosters."

Meanwhile, the Roosters are poised to reject the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

"We'll be telling the players not to sign it," said president Nick Politis.

"I just can't see anything in it for the players and clubs."

NRL chief operating officer Graham Annesley and Rugby League Players Association president Tony Butterfield have visited clubs explaining the document, which outlines players' rights and benefits.

Yesterday, Annesley and Butterfield spoke with Parramatta, the Bulldogs, Wests Tigers and Souths and tomorrow will travel to Canberra and Melbourne.

Next week, the pair will visit the Roosters, who are asking for amendments to the CBA. "We have been to nine clubs so far and there's been no protest but plenty of support," Annesley said.

But Politis said his players will not sign the document.
 

Anonymous

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Give me a break.

If this gets through there will be anarchy. No cap concessions for a struggling club like Melbourne but a club with all the quality players that is on the top of the table needs them.
 

Hurriflatch

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Who says the players need to live in a million dollar apartment on Bondi Beach.



ERic Grothe for example plays for Parra but lives in a unit in Crounlla that he shares with Dragon's player John Olzard.
 

Chook

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It'll be a stupid request by the club, if they actually make it.

Must be a slow news day at news? :roll:

Chook.
 

Bomber

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An absolutely arrogant and stupid request from the Roosters management

Once again they prove that they really only have their interests at heart, and not looking at the greater picture. Imagine in 50 years time....the Roosters would be like the f**king Manchester united of the NRL, but they would be playing in empty stadiums against teams that are severely fiscally handicapped and cannot compete with the likes of them

If the Roosters so desperately need a champagne and caviar allowance in the salary cap, then why in the name of f**k don't we give salary cap concessions to MELBOURNE, forget their News Ltd pedigree, we really need to support the game in frontier areas, and I'm sorry roosters fans, but your district hasn't been a frontier area since 1908.

Why don't we give an allowance to players from the WARRIORS and COWBOYS, for the cost of relocating to auckland and townsville?

Why don't we give an allowance to the TIGERS and RABBITOHS to ensure their long term survival and competititiveness on the field.

This is a very f**king silly request by the roosters and has made be really angry at how selfish they are. They are like children at a fourth birthday party who are squealing for another f**king patty cake.

Even roosters fans must realise just how selfish the clowns who run their club really are.

Finally, let me quote that timeless classic Animal Farm

'Gentlemen,' concluded Napoleon, 'I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: 'To the prosperity of the Manor Farm!'

There was the same hearty cheering as before, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs. But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemd to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the piags? Clover's old dim eyes flittered from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, somehad four, some had three. But what was it that seemd to eb melting and changing. Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farm house. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a voilent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the tbale, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to tbe that Napoleon and Mr Pilkington ahd each played an ace of spade simultaneously.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
 

gunnamatta bay

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The funny thing is that most of Roosters players don't live in the eastern suburbs. I know a lot of them live down here in the shire including their coach and freddy lives on the northern beaches.
 
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Fittler has just purchased a semi in Clovelly. He paid $1.3 mill for it. The same house in Penrith would be worth about $400k. Work it out. I was brought up in the Eastern Suburbs but I'd have to win lotto to buy a house there.
 
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Roosterscum who the f**k do they think they are?????

Next they will be asking for Bondi to be the capital of Australia. Don't these f**kwits understand that they are already hated by all walks of life.
 

Bomber

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No, it is you RC who is misinformed here.

The Roosters will not use the extra spending money to purchase f**king houses

They will use it to purchase f**king players

Can't you see the f**king point

Oh, that's right, you are a f**king Roosters supporter
 

sretsoor

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Id say Bomber you are misinformed if you are taking it seriously.

Other clubs are asking for concessions so why not come up with something and just ask for it. Is there any harm in asking, no. If you dont ask you sure as hell wont get it. so why not ask and be told no. Im sure the club knows they have buckleys of getting it.

As for the area, well yeah it's expensive to live. I rented a one bedroom unit in Bondi Junction and that was $400 p/w. So even the rent is ridiculous.

Anyone sus about no report of it in the SMH yet News Ltd have got the scoop? No doubt the SMH will write somethign now.

Id just take it with a grain of salt IMHO.

Still, for the baggers, no dount you'll take the gospel of Telegraph to heart and get steamed up for nothing. Good luck.
 

Bomber

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No, of course there is no harm in asking

BUT

Gunna Matter has already said that many players do not live in the eastern suburbs

And in addition, one of your wonderful officials has said that the $3.25 salary cap provides an uneven playing field. I only got a sound for Maths B in high school but I know that if every club has a $3.25 salary cap, then all clubs must be equal.

I am very suspicious of this, and suspect, as I've already made clear, that there are ulterior motives behind this move. If the Roosters have $200,000 in concessions for players allegedy living where they are supposed to live, then should all clubs have that same concession?

Also, I thought that the residential qualification system was abolished in the 1960s?
 
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Why would the NRL kick out it's jewel in the crown? The NRL should let natural attrition take place. They should remove the security blanket.
 

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