Ike E Bear
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The salary cap in it's current form has become a complete joke. It has driven some of the best footballers out of the NRL. It's seems like the administrators now think the rules of the salary cap are more important than the game itself. Typical bureaucratic mindset.
And it hasn't really achieved its stated objective.
Is the salary cap working for Cronulla? Did it work for South in the years prior to and shortly after privatisation?
It's not distributing the talent at all. Never really has.
We still have 'haves' and 'have-nots' in terms of playing talent, and in the meantime we've restrained players' right to make as much money as can from their marketable skills. Worse still, we've driven off talent that could improve the marketability of the game. And perhaps worst of all, we're now potentially chasing off sponsors (yes, they COULD still sponsor Inglis, but if Souths can't legally sign him and he's not interested in the only other viable Sydney option - Parra - then no, they really can't sponsor him, can they).
The thing that keeps bugging me is that I don't actually believe Inglis will magically turn the Bunnies into a super team. I think he'll improve them, sure, but I think if 2010 hadn't have been ruined by injury they probably would have been playing finals footy anyway. Inglis won't suddenly make them into a Storm-level juggernaut. Compared to most other teams in the NRL, I think a Rabbitohs team including Inglis wouldn't be unfair at all.