he will be a bunny........stop reading dallys thrreads

No, no one.

Link here. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... ugbyleague $1.8Mil over 3 years wtf. Now I'm confused, I'm not the most knowledgable on the in's and out's of the salary cap but $1.8mil funded from 3rd party payments just seems beyond belief that they are even going to lodge a contract with those terms. I read last night that it was Russell Crowe who slipped up on tv and told the cameras for the first time about the $1.8mil contract.

Link here. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... ugbyleague $1.8Mil over 3 years wtf. Now I'm confused, I'm not the most knowledgable on the in's and out's of the salary cap but $1.8mil funded from 3rd party payments just seems beyond belief that they are even going to lodge a contract with those terms. I read last night that it was Russell Crowe who slipped up on tv and told the cameras for the first time about the $1.8mil contract.

I bet Warrington can find the money!

If he does'nt go to the Bunnies then he'll go to RU or the AFL imo.

What happened to the Brisbane deal?

Agree with rhinoms re. RU, surprised he has't been picked up already to be honest

Allegedly can't stand Henjak.

The NRL seem to be doing everything they can to push their superstars either away from their competition or worse straight into the hands of other sports. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot

How do you figure that out?

The NRL has a significantly looser salary cap than SL for example, with all sorts of large third party deals being exempt and "marquee player" status.

If rugby union or AFL are prepared to throw ridiculous sums of money at young men who have never played their game before, let them. I'd rather NRL (or SL) clubs didn't bankrupt themselves trying to pay unsustainable salaries to specific individuals.

The game in Australia will be around long after Karmichael Hunt (and potentially Greg Inglis) have left it, such is their production line of talented young players.

probably going to AFL or RU tis ok now we only got to hope rest of australian squad go the same way then england might stand a chance of actualy finishing second to new zealand

Is he good or sommat?

Not sure if you noticed but I changed the G and I to capitals because it's a name and they need to be capitals. Try find where I did it.

In the subject.

That was hard.

Yes I agree I would much rather not bancrupt ourselves rather than trying desparatley to hold on to them. It not a major issue for nrl he will be replaced and I thought he would have gone to RU

I agree with everything you have said. I would like to add that imo if they want to go to Union or the ARL purely for money then let them, fook off, have a nice life Hunt, Falou and (potentially) Inglis. Its clearly not there preferred sport as they would have taken it up in the first place. Inglis is in a very very fortunate situation. He was born with natural talent. Its up to him how he wants to use.

Agreed. The thing that's fairly obvious about Australian RL is that every time a superstar walks off to another sport for the money, another superstar appears to take their place. If they don't want to play RL (for pretty good money let's be honest) then it's no loss, there's plenty of kids who'll be just as good, busting a gut to take their place.

Did you enjoy that game?

The NRL salary cap isnt about saving clubs from themselves though is it. If melbourne hadnt been caught do you think they would have gone out of business of course not. The NRL cap is about an arbitrary limit suppressing a free market which is supposed to level the playing field. The unintended consequence of that is that clubs who are clearly entirely solvent and can more than afford to buy and keep stars are prevented from doing so and when it comes to a player with the selling power of inglis the NRL effectively and artificially prices itself out of the sporting market.

I thought the NRL clubs continually ran up losses every year? Bar a couple. Without a salary cap you will get the same 2 or 3 clubs winning every year in the NRL. In SL it would be Leeds.

RL in both hemispheres desperately needs a salary cap, it's not strong enough in either England or Australia to run like football in Europe.

Where all the top soccer clubs are run on solvent business-like lines!!!
& where the same clubs dominate in Spain, England, Scotland to name 3 examples that come immediately to mind.

Yup

If there was no Salary Cap, Leeds Rhinos could spend spend spend and win SL & CC for the next 8 years or so, get into financial trouble, sell the ground to Tesco and then play at Elland Road as tenants.

you could put out a back division of Byrne, Hunt, Inglis, SBW, Folau Barnes, Gower and aother of Rogers, Tuquiri, Gasnier, Tahu, Sailer, Paul, Harris who went and came back That would match any back division in the RL world today. That doesnt take into account the likes of Hape, Ashton, Estebanez, Thorne, Myler, MacDougall or Cross who would still get a gig in RL

Its pretty sad that some of the best rl players in the world arent playing RL

It is a shame when these players leave, but someone always comes along and gets a chance and is then the next big thing, particulary in the NRL

The problem with the NRL salary cap is if you have a wealthy fan with no connections to the club, he can give a player employment and pay him whatever he wants and the salary wont count towards the cap.

I think the SL cap is designed for the same reasons to try and level the playing field so that the smaller clubs can compete on a (more level) playing field