Nope, wasn't suggesting that at all. I'm saying rugby league isn't a business. Rugby league is a sport and involves more than just the top level clubs and players.
Anything that can be monetised can be a business, so yeah RL can be a business... So is juggling professionally, playing video games professionally, painting, etc, etc. If you monetised it it becomes a business, and guess what all the levels of RL that we are talking about are 100% monetised!
Professional sport is also more than a business. We are in this not just because of money. We are about growing the sport and spreading our great game to be enjoyed by kids and adults in both participation and viewership.
Are you sure? Are you certain that the NRL, NRL clubs, etc, aren't only about the money, are you sure that they aren't only interested in growth cause of the money it brings in?
That's you projecting your ideals and what you want the NRL, RFL, etc, to be about, and how you want them to operate, it's simply not the case, they're just as slimy as any other business when it comes to profit hunting, the only difference is that unlike some businesses they hunt prestige and glory as well as money...
I mean seriously if the NRL and NRL clubs weren't only about the money then a lot more money from the last TV broadcasting rights deals would have gone to the grassroots then into the pockets of the clubs and players...
The NRL is a business but the way you keep comparing it to regular industries is idiotic. 'Would you let your employees go work for another company for 2 weeks' nonsense.
It's no different than any other business that's workers are primarily made up of independent contractors, no different at all, you want it to be, but when you get down to it's exactly the same as everywhere else, so yeah it's defiantly comparable to "regular industries".
It's a pretty basic entertainment business, it runs in a very similar fashion to acting, the music industry, other professional sports businesses, the bloody circus for gods sake, or aren't they "regular" enough for you, don't they count.
And when you get down to it what would the clubs be doing? They'd be letting their employees go work for another company (the RFL or NZRL) for a week or so without getting anything in return for it. The above example is literally what is being expected of them...
Not everything in my argument is directed at you. The only thing there relative to you is that you keep saying we should compensate the clubs when I say we shouldn't give a shit about the clubs.
Firstly not all forms of compensation are monetary, you would probably support many of the potential forms that compensation could take.
Secondly you should give a shit about the clubs cause if they don't exist then the main source of money that supports international RL would be gone and it'd fall over, and their'd be no regular source of income for players, which would make it impossible for it to be feasible to make a living playing RL which would kill international RL as well, as every player worth a damn would move into other professions to support themselves and leave RL behind...
They knew the risks that their players might get injured when they signed origin & test players.
Yeah they knew the risk that players may be selected in rep squads, they never agreed to financially subsidise international football to the direct detriment of their bussiness for no return though and that's what is happening in this case as the NRL clubs see no return from either the RFL and/or the NZRL...
Also just because they knew the risk doesn't mean that it's right that they should be exploited, the farmer knew the risk that there might be oil found on his land, doesn't mean that the oil company has the right to come in and destroy his farm to get it without reimbursing him...
And no actually I'm more inclined to do something if it is the right thing to do. And that's tenfold when it comes to my greatest passion. If I cared about money when it comes to rugby league I'd be about $50k richer.
The RLIF and NRL need to prioritise international football and tell the clubs to f**k off. I don't give a shit what the clubs want, if we listen to the clubs the rules would change every week
Firstly what is "right" and what is best are two very different things, it isn't "right" to trade one life for ten, but it is "best".
Also on what planet is it "right" to knowingly damage a business for your own gain without compensating them for their loss, I'll say it again, if this was a mum and pop business being expected to suffer similar treatment you and the rest of the country would be outraged, absolutely furious, and you'd demand that they were compensated, and you'd be bloody right too, but for some reason you've got some strange cognitive dissidence that an NRL club isn't a 'real business' like the "regular industries" therefore they don't count for some abstract reasons...
What is it, you see them as rich therefore they can afford it? Even if they are rich is that the "right thing to do", and yeah maybe they can afford it once, or twice, but what happens when the precedent is set and it starts happening regularly? Could they afford it then?
You keep saying that I'm silly and idiotic, but you are the one saying that the NRL isn't a business that it's something else that functions exactly like a business but isn't cause reasons, you are the one trying to justify forcing businesses to give up their contracted employees to separate businesses (yes the RFL and NZRL are separate from the NRL, tough at this point the NZRL probably shouldn't be frankly) without compensation and to the direct determent to their business, you are the one suggesting that would be the right thing to do when it's completely avoidable and frankly that is quite abhorrent.
