Posts Tagged "NRL salary cap"
NRL players tread on shaky ground
By John Davidson, 7 Feb 2013Australia’s elite rugby league players need to be careful in their negotiations for their new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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NRL Salary Cap delay confusing everyone
By Chris Chard, 14 Jan 2013There are many things in this world that are inherently confusing. Art-house films, tax returns, the appeal of the Madden brothers, just to name a few.
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NRL needs marquee player rule
By Nik0, 18 Dec 2012Why shouldn’t the NRL implement a marquee player rule that allows clubs to sign such players outside the salary cap, like in the A-League?
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Let’s go slow on player wages
By MG Burbank, 14 Dec 2012I’m surprised. I wasn’t certain Telstra would go all in, but they have – to the tune of around 180 million clams. So it seems the cap will rise to $5.8m.
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Salary cap penalties miss the mark
By Stiffarm, 26 Sep 2012This weekend’s NRL grand final features 2012’s two best teams, who also happen to be the past decade’s worst salary cap cheats. Well matched foes indeed.
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Origin bonuses should be outside the cap
By Nicholashugo, 20 Jul 2012The official NRL website states that the NRL Salary Cap ‘assists in “spreading the playing talent” so that a few better resourced clubs cannot simply out-bid not so well resourced teams for all of the best players’.
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The cap, the draft and the Asotasi Effect
By The Barry, 22 Mar 2012Beau Scott’s signing with the Knights seems to have opened a can of worms regarding the transfer of players between clubs (as invariably happens each season), to the point where the old draft discussion has been dusted off and brought out to see the light of day again.
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NRL stars must learn about life after footy
By Joe Frost, 20 Mar 2012Reading Danny Weidler is the sporting equivalent of listening to Kyle Sandilands. You don’t do it to like him, you do it to hate him. Not a week goes by that he doesn’t write something that infuriates.
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Time to replace the NRL’s salary cap
By CouchCoach6, 14 Sep 2011The first thing for the NRL’s new Independent Commission to tackle should be the salary cap. It must be replaced with a new system.
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Salary cap pain is fan’s gain in tight competition
By Luke Doherty, 18 Jul 2011The NRL salary cap was once as popular as the carbon tax, but now it’s providing fans with one of the closest competitions in recent memory.
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Compared to AFL, are NRL stars underpaid?
By Alan Nicolea, 12 Jul 2011It’s official: despite their lavish lifestyles and the fact that they play sport for a living, The Sun Herald has revealed that a huge amount of NRL footballers, including some of the games biggest stars, believe they are underpaid.
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Storm roll on despite salary cap punishment
By Luke Doherty, 11 Apr 2011The 2010 NRL salary cap scandal was meant to rip a club apart and destroy the powerhouse Melbourne Storm for years to come, but after five rounds of the 2011 season it has made little difference to the Storm.
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Salary cap must cater for homegrown talent
By The Bulkcrow, 17 Mar 2011Being a season ticket holder for an NRL club, there’s nothing I appreciate more than seeing a local talent playing for his home team. It’s absolutely fantastic watching a young player at the club that he supported as a junior develop from a raw Toyota Cup player to a first grade star.
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Dragons’ title a win for junior development
By HunterFujak, 18 Dec 2010The 2010 NRL grand final was billed the ‘Sydney derby’, with the media marketing all sorts of geographical and culture divides to define and demarcate two tribes of supporters.
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What’s the future of NRL salary cap auditing?
By Danny_Mac, 15 Oct 2010As the on-field action starts to fade into memory for 2010, I’ve been thinking about what 2011 will bring. As the mind runs through various scenarios, you start to factor in different things: injuries, origin, salary cap pressures and wonder where teams will end up at this time next year.
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It’s time to level the playing field
By Aidan, 17 Sep 2010With the talk of salary caps dominating all Australian football codes, isn’t it time that European football leagues revisited the idea of introducing a salary cap for their respective competitions?
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Toyota Cup is a great alternative to a draft
By Danny_Mac, 15 Sep 2010We all love even competition, finding security in the knowledge that our side will be able to turn it around next year. A salary cap only goes part of the way to ensuring this; it is the distribution of talent across the league that ensures its evenness.
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