The fact fly directly in the face of what your saying
None of the four new clubs invited into the competition had even played a game . So how exactly were they in financial trouble
They were admitted into the comp in 91/92 (I don't remember the exact year) and with the exception of the Crushers (which is more complex can be addressed at another time) none of them were really in a position to start a club as all of them had underestimated the costs involved in starting a club (just like the Giants and Knights before them), but the NSWRL/ARL took their license fees and let them in anyway, and they proceeded to blow though their starting capital at a rate of knots until they realised 'shit we're going to run out of money before we can even get the business off the ground'.
Why did the NSWRL allow clubs that were certain to fail into the comp? Who really knows, if I had to speculate they probably wanted to keep up the image of progress, they also had other bids that were viable but letting them into the comp by themselves would have hurt the integrity of the competition, they probably also figured that they could do what they did with the GC club and just help organise the sale of the clubs/licenses onto new owners every time a club went under until something stuck, but again who really knows...
The cap worked so clubs couldn’t spent more than they earnt. Maybe not the ideal situation but it stopped clubs from going broke (with the exception of clubs that cheated the cap)
And?
The cap has never worked to stop clubs over spending, when their spend on the squad was (theoretically) capped they just started cheating the cap and moved the extra left over funds into other areas like facilities, coaching, and equipment and started overspending there...
It was part of Murdoch's strategy to send player payments and other costs to levels the NRL and its clubs could not compete with.
Yes News flushed the clubs aligned with them with capital, it wasn't solely for the purpose of ensuring that their clubs had a competitive advantage over the competition, but that is neither here nor there, and I don't see how that is relevant...
Canberra must of been slow learners. After cheating the cap the first time – only to be helped out by the ARL - They were then well on the way to doing the same thing again.
Mate I wasn't joking or being facetious when I said that they literally couldn't afford to cheat the cap even if they wanted to until the mid 2000s...
After getting 'caught' the first time (you know the time when they were 'caught' doing what half the comp was doing and it was agreed by all involved that it was just a misunderstanding of the brand new rules) they were "helped out" so much by the ARL that the club was basically bankrupt and insolvent, all the players had to take large pay cuts (the ones who didn't have to leave that is), and all of them (literally) had to panhandle on the street to help raise the funds from public donations to keep the clubs head above water...
Even with the incoming News money in 95 the club was f**ked for years to come. They were undoubtedly the club most harshly punished for cheating the cap in the comps history...
NB Uni was never cut . Only a small point but one you need to be aware of.
Uni were definitely pressured to pull out of the NSWRL, and not just by the university and RU...
And any club placement/movent that occurred in the early years of Rugby League is and was designed at making our base/ very fabric of our game stronger. So when opportunities, like the ones currently come round. We are in the best possible position to take advantage.
Ohhh, so it's ok to adapt to new circumstances back when it's Glebe on the chopping block, but not when it might be your club on the chopping block... And bugger attempting to "make the base and very fabric of the game stronger" for future generations, your club (I assume the Roosters) are more important...
