www.backpagelead.com.au/afl/3101 ... fl-rights-

www.backpagelead.com.au/afl/3101 ... fl-rights-

Good to see the ratings have finally started having an effect on some of the brain dead involved in the negotiation process.

I like this.

Nine is traveling well in the ratings on the back of its NRL coverage in the rugby league heartland of Brisbane, Sydney and Newcastle. Rugby league remains the highest-rating sport on Australian television.



And this.


This has given rise to the question within the Nine hierarchy about whether they really need the AFL rights. ''On that basis, no, we don't need the AFL rights,'' the executive said.

market forces are coming to play

everyone wants to bid for the nrl rights and there is less interest for AFL.

the nrl is brilliantly set for a decade of massive growth

by the end of this decade well see 20 or 22 team team nrl, potentially across 3 nations, a salary cap of $10 million and the top players earning $3 - 5 million pa

we will raid RU of any player we want.

good days to be a leaguie

The only thing I seriously doubt in what you say is what top players earn. 1 player in 25 will earn half of the club's entire cap.

depends on how high the cap goes.

top players are $800,000 now at $4.25 million salary cap.
$6.5 million salary cap - $1.5 - $2 million players

the lesser clubs will be desperate for a super star so they could pay really big bucks

Who earns 800k pa at the moment? Not being awkward. I genuinely don't know.

GI is on around $650,000 - $900,000 depending on who you believe

remember 3rd party sponsors can add heaps.

this doesnt include rep payments either

i think thurston is on $850,000 ish.

remember the changes to the marquee player allowance, rise in salary cap and $100,000 exemption for long serving players.

cars arent included in the cap either

remember parra were offering close to $1 million for quade cooper

I wouldn't pay $1 Million Dollars for Cooper. He goes missing in defence and if you put a big man on him he poops himself, and that's in union...

$1 million is small fry compared to what Parra have spent searching for "the next Peter Sterling" since 1991...

yee gods not Ch9 again please!

I've seen RL get shafted too many times to believe any media about anything to do with the game, I'll believe it when the cheques in the bank.

So you don't know. Just heresay.



You THINK? = heresay.



WTF? What's that go to do with earning the amounts you mentioned?




Heresay once again.



Do you see the common pattern?

You mentioned 3rd party payments and the salary cap, can you explain how it works to everyone please?