I really do hope the salary cap push by the RLPA is mainly to bump up min wage blokes cause the average Joe 9-5 grinding it out day to day would love a nice salary bump right now but they will be lucky to get the CPI increase. If the high end salary NRL players think they should be getting a nice wage increase right now they are living in their own world not reality
Maybe NRL revenue is going up but so are costs and I fear it's the average punter that has to subsidize some of this ****. If it's CH9 forking out more for TV rights I would say I could care less but CH9 are so ****ing bad at promoting the game in a positive light or even doing things with competence commentary wise, they are embarrassing. Fox have their issues too. Guess they pay so much coin for the rights they feel they can do what the **** they want with it and treat it like a $2 slut
The whole short career thing is bs for the high end players, they earn in 10 years what takes regular folk more than a lifetime and plenty of peeps **** their bodies (and mind) up too in regular jobs
I cringe at how many **** inconsistent over hyped players earn $1 million - it's more than enough. It's Rugby League ffs not the NBA or EPL which have global reach and massive backings
We arn't really competing with Rugby anymore, Rugby is dying in this country. If they wanna go play Rugby overseas and fail well NRL should call their bluff - they will be back and if they arn't well they aint as important as they think they are. The sport and life will go on, they ain't that special.
NRL should put the players on the spot - we can increase the salary cap so some of you rich ****s can get richer and buy a bigger house or we can instead divert that money to grass roots footy, community beneficiaries and player welfare.
Sorry for the rant, but too many of these players come across as greedy shits. They have good lives but obviously not good enough. They just don't relise how good they have it already. Go work in an office or on the tools if it's so unfair though they probably too dopey to even manage that and need their hand held the whole way when they arn't bashing chics and pooping pillz in the dunnys that is lol
yes it's been a big week and rough at times, work my ass off like many of you
As for Refcliff I could almost see them winning a game within the first 2 rounds and the hype train going into overdrive and the media/NRL fapping about how great it is having another team and part of QLD represented only for them to go on and fail miserable on the season overall. I think they gunna struggle but it's a long term play, can't expect miracles in short term and we certainly don't wanna another Titans (which I don't think they will be)
