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"I think earlier in the season, the players weren't yet familiar with Ryles style. It takes time. That cost us earlier on"
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this is going to hurt the NRL a lot. A bit like the IPL and domestic cricket, if they pay enough the top tier players will sign up and other comps will pick up the dregs of top tier talent in the off season. It's fortunate a lot of NRL forwards dont make a good transition.
Let them all go the greedy fucks
I wouldn't call them greedy, far from it. A perfect example is State of Origin. It's said that the NRL makes a minimum of one hundred million dollars for the 3 game series, it could be more than that. Yet the players that put their bodies on the line only pocket $30,000 each per game. That equals $30,000 × 36 players x 3 games = $3,240,000. This leaves a minimum amount of $97,760,000 (or more) to the NRL. So a minimum of 97.76% of the State of Origin revenue goes elsewhere. Greedy is not something I would consider any NRL player.
Well this is a different story from what I'm talking about.
The games greed is another matter but to say these mercenaries looking for a payday aren't greedy is being wildly generous.
Facts are, the NRL's payments to players limited via the salary cap, is one of the lowest percentage of governor body revenue of all professional sporting organisations in the world. Most professional leagues throughout the world invest 50% and above to their players, without considering the huge difference between the total revenue generated from State of Origin, NRL players get 40% or below of NRL generated revenue. Considering what these players put their bodies through for 10 months of the year, to say they are overpaid or greedy is unfair.
Not only should the players earn more money, why do the NRL even award the minor premiership? The club that outperforms all other clubs throughout the 27 rounds of the competition get a prize of $100,000. If the minor premiership winning club was to divide this prize amongst their 30 man roster and coaching staff each person would possibly get about $2000 each. In comparison, the AFL minor premiership winning clubs prize is 10 times the NRL's, $1,000,000.
The NRL are the Pigs at the Trough, not the players.....but when the revolution comes Player Agents will be the first against the wall
As they should be.
Players should represent themselves. If you are elite and can't negotiate and agree on a contract & the terms of said contract you've got issues.
If a player wants more money - stop giving it away.
I'm not sure exactly how many NRL players you know personally? I can tell you my thoughts regarding the players ( both past and present) I know personally. Most of them would struggle to comprehend majority of the contract being offered to them. Most of them are only interested in the amount of money they will receive each month and for how long this payment will be made. Reading, writing and understanding hasn't been there priorities throughout their schooling years. Just this week we all seen one of the games highest profile players in the NRL post a video showing himself drinking toilet water and stating that "it helps muscle recovery ". Could you imagine someone like this negotiating a multi year multi million dollar contract? Imagine the crazy deals someone like Phil Gould would manage to get signed?
However, what could work would be to have employees of the NRL look over contracts for players. The NRL could charge a small percentage fee and that money could be given back to whatever junior league competition the player came through.
I saw a interview on Parra eels .com there guy in charge of education and welfare of juniors was saying about 75-80 % of youngsters coming through the system have very little in the education stakes it's almost like footy is there all eggs option with nothing behind it.
So they try and tap into there interests and get them into some sought of apprenticeship or alike so they at least have something when they leave.Samething in Union to I've heard horror stories of kids getting full boat scholarship rides to private rugby schools here in NZ and kids not cracking it and not taking the advantage of the free education also.
What a player earns is unfair in your eyes not mine. The NRL should reward the clubs and players more fairly, no doubt but to say players aren't well paid is ludicrous.
They play 24 games, most play less, plus potential semis and SOO if selected.
That doesn't sound like too many games to me, given a year has 52 weeks and they play for 80mins a week plus some training.
If it's that hard and taxing on the human body, maybe they should try brick laying, plumbing or roofing for 48 weeks of the year. Then tell me they are not well paid for the time they put in.
You sound like a footy player or family, defending your trade.
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