Oh man, this will make the whole August 1 fiasco worse. The issue popping up lately is players like Matt Lodge and David Nofoaluma leaving their clubs for a chance at finals, same with Klemmer and Taupau looking for that chance too. Having this payment of players getting rewarded for making finals, you will have players wanting to leave to get a payment if they are missing finals and that will make it absolutley insane at that time and unfair.
Clint Newton is a flog of the highest degree.
https://www.zerotackle.com/rlpa-fights-for-36k-bonus-for-grand-final-teams-124230/
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I don't have a problem with players changing clubs mid season, but the current cut off date is too late. It should be moved back to June 30.
And yes, Clint Newton is a flog...
Speaking of August 1, i think that should be when off-contract players can be free agents and sign elsewhere, not November 1.
I know it means distractions but they leave it with agents, should be fine.
The date is getting moved back closer to June next season.
The August date was originally brought it for Covid effected seasons and stayed in case they had to go into bubbles again.
Hopefully the NRL grows a brain and shuts this down quickly.
All this will do is encourage talent from clubs on the lower half of the ladder to want out to join the top clubs.
The top clubs will get stronger and the lower clubs weaker causing the divide to get bigger than it already is.
They would be better off offering payments to star players to join lower ranked clubs.
This is ridiculous, the players are already payed well, the expectation is for you to play finals footy it's not a bonus.
It would also widen the gap between the good teams and bad one's, who would sign with a bottom team when they k ow they are likely to make more money with a top team.
Greed, pure greed.
BEM & HKF, after reading your comments I totally agree. Initially I thought, why not?
Your comments were both insightful and educational.
I haven't read the article so I'm not fully informed on why they are asking for extra money but I assume it's because they want a slice of the revenue, they already get that via the club grants from the NRL. Without the grants the clubs would not be able to pay the players anywhere near what they do. I'm all for the players getting their fair share of the revenue but not getting more because they played finals simply for the fact it will create a bigger divide.
I don't mind it, it's an incentive for players we develop to stay with us instead of playing for shit teams like The Tigers. It's also an incentive for shit clubs to better themselves from the ground up instead of looking for quick fix options like raiding other clubs stocks ( looking at you Canterbury ). Have a look at the time we've put into developing players , so what they can be poached by clubs with less interest in developing?
We should get salary cap exemptions for doing it better. Maybe players shouldn't be elligable for it until their second or third consecutive year with a club to avoid mid season club hoppers cashing in.
Developing players we get from other clubs
Papalii < warriors
Niukore < warriors
Brown < souths
Lane < warriors, bulldogs, manly
RCG < panthers
Gutho < manly
Sivo < panthers
Opacic < broncos
Simmonson < raiders
Blake < panthers
Perham < warriors
Mahoney < bulldogs
Rein < titans
Grieg < cowboys
Ogden < bulldogs
Wow! How bad is our own junior pathways.
We still developed the players . We may not have produced them as juniors but we certainly developed many into the players they are today . It's not like we poached them at the top of their games . We put substantial time and investment into their careers .
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