What is the goal of the salary cap?

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Im just reading the discussion of the TPA thread and i think most of the disagreement comes down to different beliefs about the purpose of the salary cap.

Im interested to see what the consensus is. For me, the salary cap is to stop clubs spending themselves broke; that was the reasoning when Quayle brought it in back it the 1990 (Im fairly sure he is even quoted as saying something along the lines of "TPAs are great. I just dont want clubs spending their OWN money")

But the modern interpritation is that the salary cap is meant to make all teams more or less equal (I think it was under Gallop that we started talking about the salary cap as a means of "spreading the talent")

So what does everyone think? Salary cap is for equality or just to stop clubs going broke.

 

[muzby]

The goal of the salary cap is twofold:

1. Give fans of 15 clubs something to whinge about and blame for their poor performances

2. Give fans of the roosters something to laugh at

 

[Captain Apollo]

I'm old enough to remember when the then NSWRL brought in the salary cap. It was stated at the time (namely 1990) that it was being brought in to stop clubs from sending themselves broken. Don't forget during the 1980s you'd had Newtown go broke, also Wests and Cronulla needed bailing out by the NSWRL to stay afloat.

It may have other effects such as potentially spreading the talent around, but you cannot say that exactly as some clubs have such bad administrations they cannot manage their cap properly and over pay certain players which stuffs up their club's talent pool.

 

[MilkShark]

To stop the NRL becoming the EPL

 

[Perth Red]

NRL will claim to even out the comp, but we all know it is really to stop inept club management sending themselves broke in the quest for just one chance to have a photo lifting the premiership.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

To stop the salary going off so you can still eat it

 

[Murishido]

Salary caps are about wage control. The parity argument is one administrators use for public convenience.

I've never seen a study that suggests salary is the clear cut driver for employees decisions on where to work, it's important but so many things trump it.

One other aspect that always boils my blood is how juniors are apparently "stolen " on balance people will always accept less money to stay (we are change adverse) if juniors are leaving for its because you either didn't value them as highly as someone else or they'd rather the uncertainty of change than the certainty of your club.

Hell other leagues worry about teams deliberately losing to get better access to juniors and we treat them as some charitable curse.

 

[Valheru]

To give fans of the lesser clubs something to blame other than their own club's ineptitude.

they are a victim of circumstances.

"It just isn't fair"

 

[Diesel]

NSWRL brought in the salary cap. It was stated at the time (namely 1990) that it was being brought in to stop clubs from sending themselves broken.
Cronulla needed bailing out by the NSWRL to stay afloat.

Luckily Cronulla learnt from their mistakes in the 80’s

 

[WindWhisperer]

To improve the quality of OZ magic and create a model future treasurers can use

 

[carcharias]

To stop the roosters buying players like Cooper Cronk

 

[Zadar]

To stop the roosters buying players like Cooper Cronk

Why shouldn’t the roosters be able to buy a pensioner one armed halfback when other clubs are able to sign superstars like Johnson,Dugan,Morris,Fifita,Graham, woods seumanufagai and Moylan without question?

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Why shouldn’t the roosters be able to buy a pensioner one armed halfback when other clubs are able to sign superstars like Johnson,Dugan,Morris,Fifita,Graham, woods seumanufagai and Moylan without question?

Because they let Kurt dillon go

 

[JamesRustle]

It's primary purpose is to have so much grey, that when the NRL conducts an audit, thorough examination of club servers and financial information will almost certainly allow them to deem any and every club will have breached for at least 1 season in any 3 year period.

This in turn gives the NRL power to force clubs to bend to their will, and when the inevitable fold/relocation is needed, the NRL can throw what ever club it decides on under the preverbial bus and blame poor club management.

 

[Canard]

It was introduced for parity.

Not one official governing body of the game has ever stated it was "to stop Clubs going broke", that's just some LU delusion.

 

[Perth Red]

It was introduced for parity.

Not one official governing body of the game has ever stated it was "to stop Clubs going broke", that's just some LU delusion.

lol you'd be pretty naive to think it wasn't also to protect the clubs from themselves.

Reality is NRL doesn't care that much if 3 or 4 clubs dominant the comp, eventually things change in any comp. In fact there is something to be said for the profile and glamour of having super star teams every now and again. Look at how dominant teams of the past are lauded now.

what it does care about is being able to fulfill its obligations by having 16 viable clubs operating and not look like a chump comp with clubs going broke left right and centre. Having realised that it wasnt working they then decided to bring in even more controls with a football cap.

 

[siv]

It was introduced for parity.

Not one official governing body of the game has ever stated it was "to stop Clubs going broke", that's just some LU delusion.

You need to open up a few 1990 RLW magazines with direct quotes from John Quayle - which say exactly that

One of the quotes from the SL war was around paying players more after Canberra blew the cap in the early 1990s without penalty

 

[txta2]

Luckily Cronulla learnt from their mistakes in the 80’s

Ha, your club ain't exactly rolling in it

 

[Diesel]

Ha, your club ain't exactly rolling in it

But at least it’s consistently made a profit year after year, albeit a small one

 

[Canard]

You need to open up a few 1990 RLW magazines with direct quotes from John Quayle - which say exactly that

One of the quotes from the SL war was around paying players more after Canberra blew the cap in the early 1990s without penalty

Happy for you to provide quotes.