What is the Minor Premiership worth?

[muzby]

$100k is f**k all in the grand scheme of things today.. what's the salary cap these days? $6.8m? that's like 1.5% of the wages a club pays just the top players..

for mine, think it needs to be better rewarded.. the NRL season is a marathon, not a sprint.. you've got obstacles like origin to deal with, and there needs to be good recognition for being the most consistent team over what is effectively half a year.

and at the risk of igniting the annual finals debate, this was a great feature of the old top 5.. it really rewarded the team who came first:
- you only had to win one game to be in the GF
- any team who wins the comp had to defeat the minor premier at some point in the finals campaign (it was impossible to lift the trophy without knocking off the team who was best all year).

 

[Hawkins]

I remember hearing that it was $100k and thought that it seemed ridiculously low. That would cover the salary of two U20's players for a year.

Maybe they should switch it up for that.

Skip the cash and get two U 20's as butlers.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

100k wouldn't even buy GI a boat

 

[ek999]

I thought the prize money has stayed where it is because the clubs wanted an increase to the club grant instead

 

[adamkungl]

It should be worth more, as should the premiership.
$500k for the minor, $1mil for the big one.

 

[TheFrog]

a home final against a team who really shouldn't be there.

or come in 2nd
A home final against team who really shouldn't be there.

You are advocating dumping the finals and just having a GF between 1 and 2 then?

 

[muzby]

You are advocating dumping the finals and just having a GF between 1 and 2 then?

guessing the sharks are getting nervous about missing out again this year?

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

7 years on and the minor premiership is still worth $100 000. The Melbourne Storm owner Matthew Tripp has slammed the paltry amount. He also suggest that the AFL makes it more worth while for clubs to do well in the finals, and the NRL won't be taken seriously till it matches the money.

However AFL does not offer any amount for their minor premiership. Tripp also makes the same point as posters on this forum that $100 000 does not go a long way for a club.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...minor-premiership-reward-20160831-gr5lrb.html

Heres a proposal....

Every club takes 100k out of their own Club Grant and chucks it in a kitty. At the end of the season, the winner takes the $1.6m. Easy.

Obviously no one will agree to that as this is clearly just an attempt to gouge MORE money out of the ARLC. So how about this: The reward for running first is getting the huge home crowds.

(unless you cant get anyone to care about your team, then you deserve nothing...)

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

I thought the prize money has stayed where it is because the clubs wanted an increase to the club grant instead

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[Rhino_NQ]

guess you could chuck 100k towards the hot water bill

 

[AWESOME PERSON]

4.2 million dollars

 

[TheDalek079]

what club has won the most minor premierships?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The more money you put up the more inclined clubs will be to do whatever it takes to win it.

The game has had enough salary cap cheating, we don't need to give incentive for further cheating.

 

[SBD82]

what club has won the most minor premierships?

From wiki: roosters. 19.

 

[Tommy Smith]

After winning three in a row, for a lavishly grand reward of 300k, it wouldn't surprise me if the NRL now increase the prize fund this year.

Just to troll us.

 

[Caped Crusader]

Yeah cause the NRL always pick on the poor widdle woosters

 

[Timmah]

Which is outrageous. It should be $500K and two shots at getting into the GF. That is why the McIntyre Final 8 system sucks.

Good thing the McIntyre system sucks because it hasn't been used for several seasons...

 

[Rhino_NQ]

maybe the club can put that 100k on them to be minor prems the following season?

 

[ek999]

Good thing the McIntyre system sucks because it hasn't been used for several seasons...

We use the McIntyre system now

 

[muzby]

We use the McIntyre system now

this is up there with a souths fan claiming they had a team in 2001...