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| Topic Started: May 6 2010, 04:03 PM (65 Views) | |
| stacey | May 6 2010, 04:03 PM Post #1 |
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Source: BigPond Sport Australian captain Darren Lockyer says a new TV rights deal could keep the game's stars in the NRL. Photo: Getty Images Australia's best rugby league players have gathered together this week for a common cause: bashing the salary cap. The lead-up to tonight's Australia-New Zealand Test match has been dominated by talk from the game's biggest names complaining they are not being paid enough, with the NRL's administrators coming under fire. The Melbourne Storm scandal and the impending departure of Brisbane star Israel Folau to either rugby union or the AFL has made the salary cap the main topic of debate amongst league's big names. Storm captain Cameron Smith – one of the players at the centre of the Storm's salary cap breaches – wants the cap lifted from its current mark of $4.2 million. "I think it's a pretty sensible idea (to increase the salary cap), " Smith says. "I think everyone that follows our game would agree with me. "And not only what's happened to our club this year, you look at the guys that have left our game, it's pretty sad really. I don't know what we have to do but we have to do something. "It needs to be looked at and it needs to be looked at quickly." That's the general consensus among the players – something needs to be done quickly. Nobody exactly knows what. Superstar Jarryd Hayne, who has signed a new deal with Parramatta worth a reported $500,000 a season, has threatened to leave the game in the future: "I am only 22. Who knows what will happen after my contract? "I could be earning a couple of million somewhere else. How many more people do we need to lose until something is done?" Petero Civoniceva says the money going to representative players – $6000 per international, $12,000 per State of Origin match – is "embarrassing". "As rep players, we're always talking about how much it costs us with a lot of expenses taken out of our allowance," the respected Panthers skipper said. "At the end of the series it's embarrassing what we get, given the effort we put in." Meanwhile Benji Marshall wants the NRL's minimum wage lifted: "You can't expect guys to play full-time for $50,000 per year and hardly be able to afford to live." But ex-players, who earned far less than the current crop, aren't happy with all this whinging. "It all comes down to greed," the always outspoken Tommy Raudonikis told the Daily Telegraph. "They are greedy. They don't play for the love of it anymore." The equally outspoken Mark Geyer agrees. "I am sick to death of players holding the game to ransom, saying they will go on strike or go to another code if they don't get more money," he told the same paper. "I think they should get more money for rep matches but I do get disappointed when I hear leading players making idle threats. Johnathan Thurston is doing it, Benji Marshall did it, now Jarryd Hayne." NRL boss David Gallop says the game simply can't afford bigger salaries, saying more money – and a bigger cap – will arrive with a new television rights deal in 2013. "We hate seeing players leave the game. But it comes down to what we can afford – that is the start and finish of it," Gallop told News Ltd reporters. Plans to increase payments to rep players are reliant on the game getting more money than it currently has, while a loosening of the salary cap would still only see the wealthier teams – such as the News Ltd-backed Storm – be able to match the million-dollar salaries touted in rugby and the AFL. Australian Test skipper Darren Lockyer has joined the call for pay rises, but admits players may have to wait until the new rights deal is done. "I don't know whether they can get the TV rights done earlier so that the players know that this is coming," Lockyer said. "But right now there are players that are at risk of leaving and Israel's one at the moment. It'd be nice if we could step in and keep him in the game." www.bigpondsport.comx |
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