Captain Apollo
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NRL is so ridiculously amateur hour. Introduce a f**king draft system. Oh a player doesn't want to go to Titans? Okay then, stay at your club. Don't want to stay at your club? Well too bad you don't get to choose where you go
Club doesn't want your services any more, trade them to another club. You are getting paid a lot of money, I don't care if you are homesick, suck it up and deal with it for the next couple of years.
The NSWRL tried to bring in a draft in the early 1990s. It was thrown out by the High Court as being a "restraint of trade" after being challenged by Terry Hill and the NSWRLPA. Only reason the AFL get around it is it is part of their CBA between the AFL and the AFLPA, with the AFLPA agreeing to not challenge the draft's validity in court.
Hence the only way the NRL could bring in a draft is they'd have to persuade the NRLPA to agree to it. To date the NRLPA have said they remain opposed to a draft.