The RLWC (Virtual Terrace) • Re: The Nadir of English Rugby League
Egg Chasing wrote:
Wasn't the cap meant to improve things?
It was and would have done if the sport and the clubs had the right management. Remember that the NRL has a salary cap as well.
The cap needs to stay unfortunately, but in a modified form. Something like your own youth players don't count on the cap at all (All French players for Catalans), five marquee players that you can pay as much as you like, of which three can be overseas players. Maximum of 28 senior players, with the remaining players capped at £2m.
That way clubs are incentivised to produce their own players (All clubs mandated to have academies), they can keep their own players once they've developed them, they can compete for stars from the NRL (which improves the product) and the big clubs wouldn't be able to stockpile players as you'd only be able to pay 5 domestic players not from your youth system at the highest rate. It'd bring an element of survival of the richest back into the sport, which isn't really a bad thing.
Statistics: Posted by Saddened! — Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:47 pm