I don't understand why TPA's should be are a thing.....But they are and it is now obvious to me that having access to TPA's, and plenty of them, is a prerequisite for being a top-teir club...It seems to be a sanctioned way to distort the celery cap....Their intention, it seems to me, Is to cause distortion to the cap. To create haves and have-nots. A two-tiered comp.
Why? Why does the nrl want this to be? Who benefits? Who does benefit from TPA's? Is it clubs in private ownership? Is this rule intended to push clubs toward Private ownership? It's easier to deal with rich private owners instead of messy clubs! I don't get what is in this for the NRL
Some examples i'd like to clarify(I hope these make sense, sorry, I'm shitfaced)
The Eels, concerned that Mahoney may get a large Dolphin offer in 2 yrs, Offered 2x$200,00 for 21&22. It would be outside of our cap and could be counted toward his next contract?
Could the Eels say to a potential $300,000 sponsor "Give us $200,000 direct for the sponsor package and $100,000 thereby upgrading him outside of our 2022 cap?
Are TpA details publicly avail. Who has 'em?
Sponsorship is made attractive thru publicity, visibility and brand association. Why would a bussiness offer a player a TPA instead of regular sponsorship? Do they get to use that players likeness? If so, is it in a jersey? Are they tax-deductible?
Can Rusty Crowe offer a TPA direct to a souths player, or does it have to go thru one of his mates?
As far as I can tell, it is sanctioned cheating....and we have to get better at it!
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TPA's are meant to be directly between player and sponsor. The club is not meant to be involved. However the deal between player and sponsor is meant to be approved and recorded by the NRL.
A few years back the NRL released the total amounts of TPA's at each club. The Storm and Broncos players had about $1 million total at each club in registered TPA's. The Roosters (laughably) said they had $50k total.
The system is broken and clearly rorted.
The NRL audit committee have very limited oversight to a club's finances. History has shown that only clubs where an insider tips off the NRL or the club self reports do the NRL ever catch significant salary cap breaches. Otherwise dodgy TPAs are super easy to hide.
I've said this many times, the only way to ensure the cap (including TPA's) is rort free is if all details are made public. Only with transparency can we ensure there's nothing dodgy happening. Until then, it will continue to be rorted.
My point is, i think, that it is not a rort. It is a system worki9ng as designed. Why is this system what nrl want and why do we put up with it
Honestly, I think the hesitancy to fix this is because it would open an enormous can of worms. A can the NRL would prefer to leave sealed tightly shut.
The NRL justifies TPA's because it brings more money into the code and allows players to earn money outside of the cap. However the reality is you could count on one hand the number of genuine TPA's. As in players with genuine sponsorships for them personally outside of their role as a NRL club employee. Munster did Musashi TV ads for example. But mostly, as you say they're bogus. Bobs plumbing has a sponsorship with a certain player but you never see said player in any way associated with Bobs plumbing. It's just extra salary cap that exists outside of the cap.
Munster and Mushati, for example. I assumed that if Mushati found Munster a good fit for their ads that they would just sign him to a campaign. Why invole a club, unless the club organised it, then backed into the shadows
I think the hesitancy to fixit is that it is working.Ie, achieving it's purpose, working as intended
If the system IS working as intended, what is the nrl's goal? Blind Freddy can see this is set up to "rort". I do not think that this is a system that has spun out of control. They want this.
Brissy is it true your going to be a Dolphin supporter in 2023 and give away the Eels? I read somewhere on another blog that this is true? Just wanted to make i was reading correctly. I'm not intending to divert the topic at hand, just a question ( a sidenote).
So Storms cap is ....One million, as in $1000,000...bigger than ours.
One Meeelion Doohklas. You can buy a lotta footy meat for......One million dollars
Must Be Nice
The NRL wants to keep the best players in the game. They don't really care if they're concentrated at a handful of clubs. Losing the best players to other codes will definitely hurt the bottom line. Having an uneven competition, not so much.
Hi Randy--mate you have touched on one of the big issues in life. How do you cope with it? fight it? an unwinnable fight that is part of everyday life..and has been for centuries. A Chinese philosophy that originated from Dao in pre 500 bc was a way of coping with this stuff.
Passionate Desire plus time can change most anything. Time is the key
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