I know the brother of a current SL player who moved clubs two years ago, his club wanted to keep him but offered only £7,500 per season. He moved to his current club for a living wage and is now coming on strong without having to find alternative income to back the RL wage up.

Thousands of players throughout the country put thier bodies on the line for nothing & even pay match day subs, they do it because they enjoy it, any cash they get is a bonous. If young kids wont play for a small wage with the chance of progressing then they wont be motivated anyway & we dont need them.

Some amateurs get paid good money from good careers, which means they cannot go full time pro, if we want a lad to go full time then we should pay at least the national minumum wage. If the sum of 5K is true, then surely that is illegal.

Depends on what you mean by young kids. If your talking about 15/16 year olds then maybe, but if you mean 18/19 year olds then no. People have bills to pay at the end of the day, not everyone have parents who are able to support them financially until they progress.

So Wigan should have given you Charnley

Does Newton do the Allams publicity in his spare time

Guess even his former fans in OZ reckon he is a gob3...!!!!

I wish this was true but unfortunately no one else wants RL. Its a similar arguement that the media have with skys dominance of football and cricket. If sky dropped football the BBC still wouldn't show much of it. As RL is way down the pecking order it would disappear without sky.

I don't think that is a like for like comparison. An undergraduate medical student isn't going to be asked to do a real shift in A&E. I'm not saying trainee RL players should get £15k - but once they are training full-time and have a squad number and are, even occasionally, being selected to play SL, I don't think it is unreasonable.




You're assuming that if Sky disappeared, or at least had to compete, others wouldn't fill the vacuum. I doubt this is the case. As both the dominant platform and with exclusive rights to so many sports, Sky essentially operates as a monopoly. It would make sense to break it up - economically. Because it is a powerful media monopoly, with major shareholders that also own powerful newspapers, it is difficult to do politically - even after hackgate.

I'm not quite sure how the wage and duties of, let's say, an admin support worker at the RFL (who may not be pulling their weight and should therefore be "out the door"icon_wink.gif reads across to a "72-10" scoreline. Did Nigel Wood miss a tackle and give away a penalty?



Otherwise, some good points. Why didn't he mention them earlier?

TBF, I'm fairly certain that the Red Hall typing pool XIII could have given us a better game than Wakefield back in July.

Whilst I take on board what Newts says about the industry introducing a minimum wage, I feel contract payments should be left with SL clubs. However, in order to maintain (moral) standards there should be an independent body who monitors contract payments and publishes the 'rates' by club and by age group for 16-20yr olds.

Disrepute charge from Red Hall?

Newton raises some valid and interesting points...

...but I don't see him coming up with a whole lot of solutions!

The game is only as strong as it's weakest parts!

Its' all very well having a great Warrington Wigan and Saints... but if theres not much else then the game will not progress!

That's why the Aussies have made their domestic game strong and see competitive games week in - and results in outstanding international success!

As for paying 5K to junior players??? would I expect my 11 year old to put his body on the line in a few yerars for that type of figure-ermmm no!