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To the real fans out there that may or may not get what I am saying in this article, I would like you to ask you a question.
How much more respect the game would get if this rule was introduced?
The rule of NRL exclusive membership is only open to NRL players that only play NRL during their careers and if any player leaves the NRL other than for non-medical reasons, then they are banned from the game forever.
While this may sound harsh, one must remember that the game comes first always and the sober reminder would be for current players that the NRL is not to be messed with.
Too much disrespect to our code from players chopping and changing in recent years has made me sick to the stomach.
It has gotten to the point of reporting on the player while the most sacrilegious crime of sporting journalism – giving coverage of the other code that the player would be going to.
Wow!
Really? Do the fans have to be subjected to this season after season – hearing about some player that we will forget about in a few years anyway?
He signs with another code (I would never want to give them the satisfaction of even mentioning another code), and the press all week reports on this player and his new code and it is this type of action that tarnishes the NRL.
Rather than like a soap opera saying, “Will he or won’t he stay”?, if a player even mentions that they are thinking of leaving the NRL than maybe they should leave as soon as possible as the NRL should only have players that 100 percent want to be in the code.
This article is not directed towards any one player and it has been very infuriating to hear in the media about some player going somewhere.
The thing that disappoints about the NRL is that they have not nipped the problem in the bud and if they did I think you would find that all of a sudden that retention rate for NRL would be high.
Just like employees in careers, the NRL players may have better opportunities elsewhere that would be a good headache.
However it would be a shame if that headache were to turn into a hangover if there new code did not work out.
However once the NRL has made the decision and signed the new contract, than he must inform the NRL immediately where he will have his contract torn up and be de-registered from the NRL.
The NRL must realise that nothing is bigger than the code – nothing!
If you sign a NRL contract and decide to leave and go somewhere for a year or two and then want to come back, then unfortunately the NRL would not be in a position to accommodate such a request.
I firmly believe that if the NRL were to adopt this policy, than can you imagine the status of the NRL?
Playing in the NRL is not a right, even for the most talented – it is a privilege.
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