NRL players at the bottom of the pile - Roy Masters

[Slackboy72]

If you are going to use statistics use the right ones. The 3 capitals the NRL is in - Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melboring - I make that 4.

I also not that Newcastle, Wollongong, Gold Coast and NQ - according to you - have zero contribution to League. Are you one of the dumb twits like the AFL who think Australia has only 5 postcodes???

For the sake of TV advertising revenue there are 8 'postcodes'.
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
WA
Sth NSW
Nth NSW
Regional QLD
SA

Tas & NT don't matter. And compared to Syd (37% of national TV ad revenue), Melb (25%), Bris (17%) and Perth (~9%) the rest don't really matter either.
NRL wins 54% of the ad revenue market convincingly while AFL wins 34%.
NRL is earning roughly 60% more for whoever holds the rights than AFL rights ever could.
If AFL is worth $137m a year then NRL is worth $220m+.
Now lets redo the sums.
Assuming AFL players get 24%.
If the NRL were to match that currently that would be 400 players sharing in 24% of $343m ($127m TV and naming rights money plus $216m raised by the clubs) or roughly an average of $205,800.
Your salary cap would jump from $4.1m to $5.1m. Plenty to keep the marquee players from looking at Japan or France or wherever.
If the rights were sold for $220m i.e. if someone other than the owners of Fox Sports (PBL and Murdoch) were able to bid for them, then the average player payment leaps to $261,600. That's a $97,000 difference on average or after tax a THP boost from $112,000 to $166,000 or 48%.
If your boss could increase your take home pay by that much just by selling the product, that you are mainly responsible for producing, at market rates, WOULDN'T YOU WANT HIM TO?

If we could tell the mums and dads and kids of western Sydney that Rugby League players are the best paid footballers in Australia do you think they would pick up a Sherrin without looking at the Steeden?

 

[Brutus]

Victorian AFL clubs make a killing from pokie revenue.

There was an article about it last year. Collingwood make a motza from their 4 or 5 venues.

 

[LESStar58]

http://www.smh.com.au/business/nrl-players-at-the-bottom-of-the-pile-20100309-pvrt.html

what the hell is up roys arse? all that's coming out of him in the leadup to the 2010 season is negative articles...

i usually respect the blokes opinion and enjoy reading his articles... but i can't help but think someone must have sh*t in his cereal recently, because he seems to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder this week.

i mean he's right, our players do - on average - get paid less than the other codes... but why bring this up a few days out from the season kickoff?

I don't think he intended to be negative... he is simply highlighting what we already know. The elite players who play rep footy in particular bust their arses all year for very little when they could be making more than that considering how good a position our game is in with regards to TV rights. RL has been denied a chance to develop at a reasonable levl for the last 13 years. A bigger TV deal and the IC will hopefully fix the issue in regards to player payments.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Victorian AFL clubs make a killing from pokie revenue.

There was an article about it last year. Collingwood make a motza from their 4 or 5 venues.

What if they split up the 2 business's calling the football operations Colliingwood Football Club and the gaming business collingwood liesure industries and then pay a grant from CLI to CFC...

Then we can all say collingwood fc ran at a loss or break even this year...

 

[Moffo]

you guys need to lighten up. don't blow a valve because someone rights something negative about the game

 

[bobbis]

He's completely right though.

The NRL is underpaid and poorly run and its salary cap is set to the standard of its poorest clubs.