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"If they classify as a transfer fee, it doesn't go on cap. It goes on soft cap which is the footy dept which is about 5m. We are not spending anywhere near that on footy dept"
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You simply make match payments a mandatory part of the salary cap. The players union and the NRL should agree on a standard match payment if they haven't already - let's say $2000. By my quick calculations that equates to about $800k out of each clubs cap.
So you take $800k away from the $4.1 million cap and say each club has $3.3 million to spend on signing bonuses, plus the $800k on match payments. This makes it very easy for clubs to structure incentive deals and if you're on match payments only you can earn up to $52k per year simply by staying in the first grade team each week.
The players union would probably shy away from this because you would likely have to lower the minimum wage to account for it and it means a player that gets injured on match payments could have no income. However, the NRL could run a salary insurance scheme, in which any player who is robbed of a fair income has their wage topped up to the minumum wage - say $50k. This takes away the financial burden that injuries put on clubs which currently means not only do you pay for injuries in the year they occur, but its ends up hurting your cap in following years because of the way this cap rule works right now.