Quote ="BelleVueLifer"as of next season the NRL clubs have a salary cap of $6.3m (£3.85m) and a club grant of $7.1m to cover that salary cap. The minimum a player, in the top 25 of his squad, will earn is $80000 (£49k).... I bet there are players in the top 10s in SL who aren't on 49k a year.
Now consider all the personal sponsorship, endorsements and additional fees for getting selected and playing representative rugby and all of a sudden your earnings are a lot more than in SL....not to mention the better lifestyle and everything else that comes with playing in the NRL.
Suddenly we notice that there is plenty of money for Tomkins and Inglis'"
Just to clarify, better weather does not equate to better quality of life.