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.