Yep, you have read that headline correctly: the NRL have forced young players to either work or study for a minimum of eight hours a week.
The idea is to stop them from causing off-field dramas. I’m all for it and considering this off-season so far has seen far less drama and disaster makes it a plus in my book.
This new rule is simple: if you’re 20 years or under, you have to either work or study for eight hours a week or you’re not allowed to play on the weekend. This is an old-school classic in the modern era.
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, most players actually did work during the week, because they had to. Today, with most of the players getting a doctor’s annual pay check, they feel like they don’t have to work in the side. Sometimes the old-school tricks work to sheer perfection.
The 20-year-old Payne Haas will have to work during the week to represent the Broncos in 2020. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)
The only negative I see is if most players who hit 21 then choose to stop working for getting a decent amount of money playing footy, that could make them go along with the proverbial young, dumb and arrogant stage – we’ve all been there.
This rule should be upped to 25. It’s usually the mid-20s when you’re leaving most of the young and dumb stage behind and focusing more on the important things. The motivated and hopeful stage can be a lifelong thing if you choose to make it that way or you eventually feel like you’re too old and hit the Squidward stage when you don’t care about anything.
This move by the NRL is one of the best they have ever done.
Hopefully they do their best to listen to the fans a bit more. Don’t go begging for the shoulder charge or the biff to be reinstated, it won’t happen.
Each club will have to reinforce this rule as of vital importance, of course. Great management for a club and a team will lead to great success on the field. This new rule seems to be a push for all clubs.
My fellow Roarers, are you a fan of the rule, too?
paha
Guest
Which article do you mean? You mean the same ABC that also ran articles saying otherwise: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-19/young-australians-financially-worse-off-than-older-generations/11425428 Or are you happy to cherry-pick certain articles that support your views, and ignore ones the ones that don't. Maybe you are the one capable of critical analysis and following proper logical arguments.
BeastieBoy
Roar Rookie
agree, but at least it's a start. How many will work(?) in the Leagues Club though?
Blackfoot
Guest
Your ABC just ran a story on it. But I guess you’re too lazy to find it yourself. Once again proving my point.
DNZ
Guest
I don't believe it because it's bogus Rudy. It's made up and not grounded in reality. You are passing off personal experience as evidence despite the fact there are multiple studies over the years disproving this.
paha
Guest
Please provide support your so-called 'facts'. Official, peer-reviewed sources please. Surely this must be easy for you to find since you are so well-educated and knowledgeable, being an older generation and all.
Insider
Roar Rookie
I like the bit about “education “ cause the standards are greater today lol Thankyou wiki
RudyZarzoff
Guest
Just because you are incapable of believing it and are incapable of proving anything substantial to the contrary, doesn’t make it an opinion. An opinion is yours and yours only. What I have provided is a fact , and the fact that you don’t know the difference, well , really does prove my point .
paha
Guest
Keep yelling at the clouds mate, someone will agree with you eventually
mushi
Roar Guru
Actually it's a fact that it's an opinion. To claim an entire generation has lost the capacity for free thought (when his core thesis is lack of adherence to norms) and the capacity to retain information is clearly not factual. The best memory in the world belongs to a millennial so fact is that isn't a fact. Anyone suggesting otherwise is a bald faced liar.
Blackfoot
Guest
That’s your opinion.
Insider
Roar Rookie
Highly educated, yep standards are exceptional
mushi
Roar Guru
They aren't facts, they are opinions.
mushi
Roar Guru
Every generation does the same thing. Boomers were ungrateful rebels to their parents who experienced wars, gen x were disloyal me first money grabbers who didn't value family,
RudyZarzoff
Guest
Educational standards have fallen massively in this country over the last 20yrs , there’s plenty of evidence to support that. I deal with hundreds of employers, and most of them have a poor opinion of today’s youth, and are reluctant to employ them as apprentices . They generally complain about them being lazy, incapable of thinking for themselves, almost zero memory retention, unmotivated and having poor attitudes overall. Facts people, I hear it every day.
Don
Roar Rookie
Yep He’s still wrong. They aren’t the highest. Not by a long shot.
paha
Guest
What a great comment, thanks Don
Paul
Roar Guru
What if the "work" you have to do consists of cleaning cars, two hours a day, every weekday? These guys have been raised to believe they're elite athletes and cleaning cars is both boring and some might think, demeaning. I can easily see the talk starting and some becoming resentful. They're only young remember.
mushi
Roar Guru
I imagine he means high end discretionary consumption. Still he's probably wrong
Griffo 09
Roar Rookie
I don't know. If they're still getting to do what they love then it's a small price to pay. Resentfulness seems a bit much.
Griffo 09
Roar Rookie
Yess! 8 hours per week!!! For someone who is professional rugby league player finding an extra 8 hours a week to be committed to a task is no walk in the park.