NRL stars are planning an extraordinary meeting

[NorthShoreEel]

Good God i would hate to imagine how much of the Cowboys Salary Cap is taken up by one player

Who is a walking injury.

They are mad!

 

[Gronk]

Bidding war or not, it could be argued (not unreasonably IMO), that the players deserve a bigger share of TV revenue, given it is thew most watched football code on TV.

They generate the money and the audiences, they deserve a good slab of it IMO.

Also, the cap hasn't kept up with inflation, so you can also argue as a collective, their real wages have gone backwards, could you not?

Pretty sure that Gallop has demonstrated that the NRL are not stockpiling cash from the TV, sponsorship and gate revenue. The players may deserve more but the game just not generate the cash commensurate to their demands.

If the NRL do get circa $1B for the next TV deal, then I hope that the first thing they do is address the minimum wage of $55k, then retention of juniors, then loyalty to one club players and THEN worry about the salaries of the top 50 players.

 

[carson]

Isn't the RLPA funded by the NRL?

No surprise they don't want a strike.

Aren't the players contractors? Hardly in a position to strike!!

I wonder how long the players would strike for if they aren't getting paid??

Would be the shortest strike in history!!

 

[El Diablo]

Isn't the RLPA funded by the NRL?

No surprise they don't want a strike.

i believe the AFL have the same setup and nobody calls their players association weak

 

[cgee221]

Has anyone seen a comedy movie "The Replacements" ? It's got Keanu and Gene Hackman in it and it is about this exact issue. If they're gonna be looking for replacement players then....hit me up Parra! haha

 

[born an eel]

Also, the cap hasn't kept up with inflation, so you can also argue as a collective, their real wages have gone backwards, could you not?

Are any of the NRL and clubs revenue streams connected to inflation?

Are you now expecting ticket prices to increase by inflation every year to help fund the increase in salary cap?

for more money to be getting to the players, the clubs and NRL need to be getting more money to fund it.

 

[The Engineers Room]

The only way to fix the problem is to have a points cap to stop teams hoarding all the best players and allow all sponsors to directly sponsor players. I bet that sponsors would love to plaster images of the top tier players everywhere and have them used in marketing and they would pay for the priviledge.

Top players could get up to $1M per year just in sponsorships. The clubs would only really need to pay 20 odd players and that will naturally lift the amount that they pay.

 

[The EELiminator]

im getting a bit sick of this "im all right jack f**k you" attitude of the top players if we are going to raise the cap then ALL players should get a payrise not just the marquee players who really dont need it as much as all the fringe first graders on match payments where's their upgrade?

 

[spiderdan]

Pretty sure that Gallop has demonstrated that the NRL are not stockpiling cash from the TV, sponsorship and gate revenue. The players may deserve more but the game just not generate the cash commensurate to their demands.

If the NRL do get circa $1B for the next TV deal, then I hope that the first thing they do is address the minimum wage of $55k, then retention of juniors, then loyalty to one club players and THEN worry about the salaries of the top 50 players.

yeah i thought gallop went through al this with the players in an extraordinary meeting a year or so ago. from memory he presented exactly where all the money was going and the players left content?

some of those points they have brought up are worth discussing but the simple fact of the matter is that until a new tv deal is negotiated and 3rd party rules are loosened, there just isn't the money going around that some of these guys want.

my own view is that you are only worth as much money as you bring in. a player like chubby inglis (who i am waiting to see do the truffle shuffle as a post try celebration) or jarryd hayne bring people to watch nrl, so they should be able to comand more $$$ from their clubs and the nrl. i have had a lot of people say to me over the last 12 months they have started to watch nrl because of hayne.

 

[Hollywood Jesus]

Bidding war or not, it could be argued (not unreasonably IMO), that the players deserve a bigger share of TV revenue, given it is thew most watched football code on TV.

NRL players currently get 24% of the pie, AFL players get 19% of the pie.

 

[Hurriflatch]

NRL players currently get 24% of the pie, AFL players get 19% of the pie.

Correct

it's just that the NRL pie is so much smaller because of the cheap sell off in the last TV rights deal.

A big part of that was because the last time the deal came up the game was weaked and Nine/Fox got a long term low cost deal.

The players crying about not getting enough of the pie have to realise that % wise they are close to the highest paid, if the NRL got a deal like the AFL then we wouldn't be hearing a peep out of the likes of Hayne, JT and co.

Also, more the likely they wouldn't care so much about juniors swapping clubs or long serving players leaving.

That is just a excuse that is used to get the sympathy vote from the fans and media.

 

[spartan2153]

These players are all morons. So is everybody saying they need a payrise. If the salary cap does go up the first people that should be paid there dues are the minimum wage. 55k for what they do is a joke. They could put the salary cap up to 6 million all it will do is fill the top players pockets even more & the bottom feeders will suffer again. Do these players also realise that rugby league is played in 2 states.

Afl is played around the country making it a true australian product so therefore money is there for them let alone there crowd support.

Soccer is played around australia & the average salary is only $80k. What saves them is that soccer is a global sport & sponsors will flock to it because it has world exposure.

Rugby union is now in 4 states plus it is played in more countries & can be considered a global sport.
I do not have a problem with players chasing money & leaving the game. I dont here anyone complaining when i left my industry to join another for better money. Its a fact of life. YOu dont like your job move on and get another one. Throw these prima donnas into day labout for a year & then we will see what they think of earning 300k a year.

 

[fish eel]

NRL players currently get 24% of the pie, AFL players get 19% of the pie.

and?

 

[Hurriflatch]

and?

AFL players get more out of the pie because the pie is bigger
NRL players actually get more of the overall pie.

So using my slice isn't big enough isn't a reason to whinge.

They should be asking why the NRL bent over and took it with a 12 inch strap on from Nine and Fox last rights deal.

 

[TheParraboy]

and?

 

[bartman]

If there's one strike I'd be sure to support, it wouldn't be one by highly paid elite athletes, that's for sure.

I think of teachers, community workers, aged care and nursing home workers, nurses etc - all industries that are chronically undervalued in terms of pay rates. The people working in those occupations don't get to "set themselves up for life" either...

To hear rep level NRL footballers, talk about how they deserve even more money makes the vomit rise up in the back of my throat.

Benji Marhsall's comment about how the NRL minimum of $55K is hardly enough to live on must've made those fans of league who earn that amount or less (of which there any many) feel real good about wasting their money on memberships, merchandise, foxtel and gate takings to support these greedy f**kwits.

They should all pull their heads in and be thankful for what they've got imo. I find it hard to cheer for individualistic whingers in what is/was always a team sport.

 

[hineyrulz]

These players are all morons. So is everybody saying they need a payrise. If the salary cap does go up the first people that should be paid there dues are the minimum wage. 55k for what they do is a joke. They could put the salary cap up to 6 million all it will do is fill the top players pockets even more & the bottom feeders will suffer again. Do these players also realise that rugby league is played in 2 states.

Afl is played around the country making it a true australian product so therefore money is there for them let alone there crowd support.

Soccer is played around australia & the average salary is only $80k. What saves them is that soccer is a global sport & sponsors will flock to it because it has world exposure.

Rugby union is now in 4 states plus it is played in more countries & can be considered a global sport.
I do not have a problem with players chasing money & leaving the game. I dont here anyone complaining when i left my industry to join another for better money. Its a fact of life. YOu dont like your job move on and get another one. Throw these prima donnas into day labout for a year & then we will see what they think of earning 300k a year.

Horsesh*t!! Have you seen the ratings for AwFuL in Sydney in Brisbane???? 55% of the country couldn't give a toss about Aussie rules. Last year RL was the most watched sport in the country, but because Gallop sold the TV rights last time for a song all of RL is paying the price. An independant commision is the way to go just have to leave out anyone from News.

 

[fish eel]

when was the last time the cap increased?

If there's one strike I'd be sure to support, it wouldn't be one by highly paid elite athletes, that's for sure.

I think of teachers, community workers, aged care and nursing home workers, nurses etc - all industries that are chronically undervalued in terms of pay rates. The people working in those occupations don't get to "set themselves up for life" either...

To hear rep level NRL footballers, talk about how they deserve even more money makes the vomit rise up in the back of my throat.

Benji Marhsall's comment about how the NRL minimum of $55K is hardly enough to live on must've made those fans of league who earn that amount or less (of which there any many) feel real good about wasting their money on memberships, merchandise, foxtel and gate takings to support these greedy f**kwits.

They should all pull their heads in and be thankful for what they've got imo. I find it hard to cheer for individualistic whingers in what is/was always a team sport.

Sometime I wonder Bart why you watch the game as you often appear to have a low opinion/dislike of the people that play it

 

[The P Eel]

NRL stars are planning an extraordinary meeting as early as today to discuss their concerns over the game's direction in the wake of the Storm salary cap scandal, including talk of possible strike action.

:blahb: They are kidding..

 

[spartan2153]

How can it be the most watched when they dont show games on free to air other than nsw & qld
Now it might be the moost watched but the numbers are decieving. Its because the total people watching in nsw & wld outnumber the afl means horsesh*t to me. There code is watched in everystate so in otherwords if you are wanting to sponsor a code a you gonna put money where a game is only watched in 2 states or where a game is watched in everystate

I have just moved to tassie & do not get any rugby league live here. We got the test on friday night & as soon as the game was over the put a movie on.
Even the storm scandal only got a slite mention. All there is in the papers is afl.

Dont be fooled into thinking it rates anywhere else in the country other than nsw or qld