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Kur0

Kur0

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I don't think many people at all rate Hetherington who probably has a worse penalty rate than NAS.

Storm maybe just believe they could potentially lower that rate and maybe extract some value out of him. They've just unexpectedly lost one of their top 5 players in Katoa alongside many others (Papi, Pezet, Anderson, NAS etc.). Not saying they are desperate but they have something like just 21 of 30 roster spots taken and may just need bodies at this point.
 
possm

possm

Coach
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getsmarty said:
Agree with most of the above.

Surely the NRL can place a nominal Payment on a Rep players etc...so they don't sign on the books for unders....this would stop the I wanted to play for Club X because....
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A Player Draft would certainly make the system fairer for all clubs. But the NRL is scared of legal action, even though other sport in Australia have a player draft.

The other way of making the salary cap more equitable is to restrict the number of players with top 30 contract to:by category that a club can sign per season:
1. Only 3 marquee players per club.
Players who have played for Australia or Origin in the past 3 years.
2. Only aan an additional 12 regular first-grade players per club.
Players who have played NRL for the past 3 years or more.
3. An additional 15 players who are on a top 30 contract.

Also change the number on the bench from 4 to 10 with a rule that when you come off you stay off.
 
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redandwhite4evr

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possm said:
A Player Draft would certainly make the system fairer for all clubs. But the NRL is scared of legal action, even though other sport in Australia have a player draft.

The other way of making the salary cap more equitable is to restrict the number of players with top 30 contract to:by category that a club can sign per season:
1. Only 3 marquee players per club.
Players who have played for Australia or Origin in the past 3 years.
2. Only aan an additional 12 regular first-grade players per club.
Players who have played NRL for the past 3 years or more.
3. An additional 15 players who are on a top 30 contract.

Also change the number on the bench from 4 to 10 with a rule that when you come off you stay off.
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One of the key reasons that the AFL Draft system works so well is that there are no alternatives to the AFL locally or internationally. There are ex Gaelic football Irish players who've come here but as far as I know, no AFL players going the other way. Effectively, a "closed shop" ensuring all new AFL players being developed via club's academies are available according to a complicated pick/swap system with last year's lowest placed teams having the first pick of the new talent.

The NRL however, has to factor in that as of 2028, the NRL is spread across three countries and has opposition from local and overseas Rugby as well as the ESL. Players unwilling to play in PNG or Perth or NZ or for lower placed teams may just decide to opt out of the draft in favour of overseas options including another code. Very complicated and can't really see a draft happening.
 
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Trifili13

Juniors
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redandwhite4evr said:
One of the key reasons that the AFL Draft system works so well is that there are no alternatives to the AFL locally or internationally. There are ex Gaelic football Irish players who've come here but as far as I know, no AFL players going the other way. Effectively, a "closed shop" ensuring all new AFL players being developed via club's academies are available according to a complicated pick/swap system with last year's lowest placed teams having the first pick of the new talent.

The NRL however, has to factor in that as of 2028, the NRL is spread across three countries and has opposition from local and overseas Rugby as well as the ESL. Players unwilling to play in PNG or Perth or NZ or for lower placed teams may just decide to opt out of the draft in favour of overseas options including another code. Very complicated and can't really see a draft happening.
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In addition to the RLPA not agreeing to a draft, I would be surprised if the top teams would agree as they would go to the bottom of the queue as talent becomes available and the "wants to play for unders and the culture" goes out the window. Can't have a low team get first crack at a decent player, must keep the status quo of all talent stockpiled with the favoured teams and a bottom team has to pay ridiculous "overs" and pray it works out.

I remember reading a few years ago that while the draft was thrown out of court at the time, there is a possibility that it may stand up now as the purpose and situation of having it has changed. Until there is a will by NRL headquarters to introduce it we will never know.
 
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getsmarty

Immortal
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sammymills said:
www.foxsports.com.au

‘Best team wasn’t picked week-in week-out’: Dropped Dragon ‘bitter’ after failing to get ‘fair crack’

‘Best team wasn’t picked week-in week-out’: Dropped Dragon ‘bitter’ after failing to get ‘fair crack’
www.foxsports.com.au www.foxsports.com.au

interesting, especially Jonah Glover’s comment that he ‘was never going to play first grade at the dragons’. I can only guess what that means.
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He's not good enough ? Lets see if he cracks the grade at Souths.
 
CronullaSaint

CronullaSaint

Juniors
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Ilias is not a great player. KF is about the same, may be a touch better, but when Val was injured, we needed a goal kicker & from that point on Ilias was not coming into the team.
He can carry on that he wasn't given a chance, but the team needed a goal kicker & LKT was a better player than Ilias as well.

As Getsmarty mentioned above, were did Souths play him?
 
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