Or go to the NFL.

Detailed in the Guardian today.
Yet some on here feel the game is in good health.

Can you honestly blame the players? The salary cap is around £1m less than it was in real terms since 1999, they play in a profession where careers are short even if you're lucky and, lets be kind here, for many players professional sport is probably the only opportunity that they'll have to make a decent income.

If there ever was an exodus of talent to the NRL or RU (not that I think there will be), it will be precisely what the clubs and the sport deserves for treating its talent so poorly to subsidise their own poor business performance.

It doesn't say 80% are willing to go to RU!!!

Its says 80% would consider NRL "OR" RU.

I'd suggest that means 80% would consider NRL and some of them, probably VERY few, would consider RU.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

If an RU club offered them 100k when an RL club was offering 60k they'd be idiots not to accept it.

But that wasn't the question.

You can't ask "would you move away from SL to the NRL or RU?", and come up with "80% of SL players would go to RU!".

Surely they'd be going to union for 'The Challenge' not the money ?

Since the number of players who have switched to union in the last 10 years isn't that far behind the number who've gone to the NRL, and would involve a decent pay rise without relocating to the other side of the world, I would say most of that 80% would consider RU too.

If you're offered more money from another employer, then you'd consider it. We are all aware that RL isn't marketed very well.
Does the Guardian tell us anything we didn't know?

80% would consider it, that does not mean they are actively willing it to happen, I would consider changing my place of work, does not mean I would, all consider means is they would think about it if the opertunity arouse, I am sure if you asked them to consider moving to soccer or NFL a similer number would consider it, the question was not "are you actively hoping/trying to switch to union and do you wish to play union instead.

The players also claim the game doesn't do enough to promote individuals. Here's a thought boys: why not take things into your own hands for a change and, instead of whinging about the RFL, give your agents a kick up their collective ar$e instead?

" Would you change your job slightly to double your income ? "

Surprising it was only 80%

It’s not just the money. It’s about challenging yourself in a better sport

Not JUST the money , JUST mostly the money

Yes others said plenty would fancy the NRL.

another silly comment, you do tot them up of late

Of course the majority of players would consider a change that brought increased financial and other rewards. We have a sport that should be eminently sensible but we just cannot manage it. Thankfully for us we produce so few top class talents that for most NRL or RFU is not really an option. Both have domestic and international production lines that render us redundant.
I would worry more about a system that offers lads of 18 a choice between leaving the game and studying, leaving to find paid work, and an uncertain future of low pay with few opportunities to develop because we have a poor pathway into the professional ranks. I know that Wigan encouraged youngsters to keep studying so that the likes of Paul Prescot had somewhere to go when retiring early but remember that Liam Marshall was in his way to a career in accountancy before fortune took a hand.

Why the sudden change in your new found obsession with union, it's hard to believe after all you've said in the past regarding your love affair with the Saints and all the support you've given them over the years. "cough"

Shocking revelation! Workers would switch jobs for a massive pay rise. What a scoop.

What would the salary cap be if it had increased in line with inflation?

Funny thing is, i bet if they asked union players the same, would you “consider” playing league, i bet a similer high percentage would say yes. The word is “consider”

I doubt the hierarchy of our game would see any article in the Guardian. Probably better if the poll was also covered by any of the Mirror ,Sun or Star & definitely Pigeon Fancier's Weekly.

Just over £3m, based on the cap being at £1.8m in 1999.

My first thought is that £3m would see us better able to compete but my second is to wonder how many clubs could finance that as they stand. Even the rich RU clubs suffer with debt.

That’s my concern and why I’ve always been in favour of stricter financial controls/standards on clubs with a licensed system to try and drive financial improvement.

My worry is that if we raise the salary cap clubs won’t increas their revenues and the money is simply transferred from club infrastructure to players wages.

Always enjoyed both league and union and watch both