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NRL Rugby League, Melbourne Storm v Warriors at Etihad Stadium, Sunday April 25th 2010. Digital image by Brett Crockford, NRL Photos
For those of you who have been living on the moon, in a cave, or with your fingers in your ears, the Melbourne Storm were recently exposed as lying cheats.
That part is old news. The story has moved on.
It is now all about the evil salary cap and how it is ruining our game – exclamation mark and slam your hand on the table for emphasis!
Everybody is up in arms. “Gus” can barely control himself and every player with access to a microphone is threatening to switch codes or switch countries to get the money they deserve.
The latest controversy is about the clearly inadequate match payments for players selected in the Test Match on Friday evening.
Obviously no one could be expected to represent their country without getting some cash as well. Apparently these benighted fellows will only get $6,000 for their time.
$6000!
Well, that’s just chump change really, isn’t it?
Oh, that’s right, turns out that is actually a huge sum of money that would take the average rugby league fan two months to earn, not two hours.
What the heck is wrong with these guys?
When did an average salary league-wide of well over $100,000 a year become inadequate?
If there is a first grade rugby league player who thinks he can earn $6,000 for two hours work doing something else, can he please let me know what it is so I can get in on the action?
Regrettably, or otherwise, I happen to be a Canberra Raiders fan and to hear that an extra $400,000 isn’t enough to buy a little loyalty from Josh Dugan is frankly offensive. It will take me years to make that sort of money.
Now, I get it.
I understand that the players make a lot of sacrifices and that it’s not just the two hours on game day, but years of training. But then again, no one put a gun to their heads.
No one is making them play football.
As for the argument that we need to find more money to keep the good players in the league, personally, I say let’s all join together in one big wave good bye and good riddance.
I pay a fortune for my Raiders membership and I’d rather have a slightly lower standard of play than pay more to put a new HSV in Josh Dugan’s driveway.
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