marquee players

with all the talk around Hayne and now Thurston does anyone think that introducing a A league style Marquee player to the NRL would help us secure our top talent b4 Rugby or super league steals them away from us. The marquee will not interfer with the salary cap, and clubs are open to what they want (or more importantly) can afford, to pay them, still leaving the current limit to pay for the rest of the squad.

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  • AFL offers salary cap relief for players that are over 30 or played x amount of games i believe.
    A League Marque player
    NRL ?
    • That is a good idea and would be good in the NRL.
  • Have to agree with John Hill here. The salary cap is a necessary evil for as we saw during the Super League War and also in the case of English Premier League Team Leeds United, clubs won't be able to help themselves and in a desperate bid to stay competitive, will gamble with their finances in order to 'win the comp'. Similarly, if we were to take the view that abolishing the cap and allowing only the strongest clubs to survive, we'll wind up with a situation like English Premier League with the 'big 4' clubs winning every year and the rest can go jump. Nobody wants that!

    By providing umpteen cap exemptions for marquee players, local juniors, sons of fathers or 10 year veterans simply waters down the cap's role and places us in a dangerous position whereby clubs could conceivable bankrupt themselves.

    With respect to the AFL, despite their $280m TV rights deal, clubs don't see a cent of it (except for Brisbane and Sydney who do receive some assistance). In order to stay afloat, clubs must sell x amount of memberships per year - and it actively encourages clubs to be masters of their own destiny. Of course, the fanaticism of the Mexicans and their inclination to 'get out to the game' does assist with respect to crowds and thus gate takings.

    I am of the belief that should the cap double or even triple in value on the back of a more lucrative TV rights deal in 2013, there'll be less incentive for our game's elite players to move to Japanese or European Rugby, or AFL for that matter. If you were to ask the players whether they'd prefer to stay in the NRL or uproot themselves overseas to chase the coin, I guarantee they'd confirm their desire to stay in League.
  • if the eels dominate, it wouldn't bother me. lol
  • I don't think anything is going to help unless the game generates more revenue... hopefully the next tv deal and new membership drive will help..... clubs will go broke with more allowances.

    Perhaps losening of 3rd party sponsorhip deals will help but this will greatly help 1 city clubs like the Bronocos and Mel more so than Sydney clubs.

    At the end of the day, there are too many clubs in Sydney and the reality is there is no solution to reducing the number.
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