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On the surface the Salary Cap is a fair and equitable means with which to maintain a healthy, well balanced, and competitive competition. A bright idea. Look a little deeper, though, and it gets dark. Very dark.
The brains behind the cap neglected to consider several things that have proven problematic: a player’s right to earn what he is worth, a club’s right to keep their investment, the fans emotional investment in players, other codes waiting to pounce and the one causing all the fuss – temptation.
The idea of a salary cap to keep the competition competitive seems to make perfect sense. The idea of a salary cap that punishes success and rewards mediocrity does not.
But a free trade system simply would not work, the weak would get weaker and, well, you know the rest. So an equity system of some description is required to ensure equal opportunity for all.
In its current format, the cap has assisted struggling clubs to compete on the field, and that’s a good thing. But in the meantime, the sports’ stocks have diminished.
Whilst ever a free trade component for “marquee” players and dispensation for local juniors remains absent, we will lose our best and brightest to competitors.
In other words, in an attempt to keep several clubs heads above water, the cap is drowning the game.
Mr. Gallop and News have taken a big corporate wand and waved it over a working mans’ game, and have stripped the emotive value in the pursuit of a good looking product.
Corporations think “product”, “brand” and “revenue”. To them, close games are good for ratings and keep the code competitive.
I know how competitive the code will be when there is no code, and there’ll be no code if “marquee “players desert the game or kids see no future in it.
So I implore you Mr. Gallop, give the game back its heart before it stops beating.
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