NRL players want to raid the future fund

[Beaussie]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

THE game's most powerful players want ALRC chairman John Grant to personally explain his $225 million future fund, which has emerged as the prime culprit for their ongoing pay dispute with officialdom.

In an unprecedented show of unity, Test stars Jonathan Thurston and Cameron Smith dashed from interstate to join representative peers Robbie Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Michael Croker and Jason King for yesterday's crucial negotiations with ALRC management at League Central.

The players entered the 9am meeting amid talk of boycotts should their demands for a significantly increased salary cap not be satisfied. And while the meeting was convivial enough, the NRL's response failed to placate them.

The major sticking point is the 2013 salary cap, which the NRL provisionally set at $5 million earlier this year. The player union, RLPA, want $6.5 million and there was only the slightest accommodation on yesterday's bargaining table.

Interim NRL chief executive Shane Mattiske offered a $5.2 million cap for 2013, with half the $200,000 increase coming from bonus marquee player allowances.

The NRL's other suggestions for new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included:STATE of Origin match payments to rise 50 per cent from $20,000 to $30,000. The RLPA wants $40,000.

MINIMUM wage to rise from $55,000 to $65,000. The RLPA wants $80,000.

NO increase in finals bonuses after the players had demanded six-figure guarantees.

RETIREMENT fund contributions to rise from $3000 to $4500 per annum. The RLPA wants the AFL model, which invests over $18,000 for each player every season.

Most of the players' demands have been configured around comparative studies of what their peers in other codes, specifically AFL, earn.

...Farah and King repeatedly challenged Mattiske to explain how and why the ALRC decided to invest $45 million per annum into the future fund over the course of the five-year broadcast deal.

While the players aren't opposed to money being put aside for junior development and expansion, they feel the ALRC's desire to save for a rainy day is costing them directly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6527798399

[eelofwest]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

THE game's most powerful players want ALRC chairman John Grant to personally explain his $225 million future fund, which has emerged as the prime culprit for their ongoing pay dispute with officialdom.

In an unprecedented show of unity, Test stars Jonathan Thurston and Cameron Smith dashed from interstate to join representative peers Robbie Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Michael Croker and Jason King for yesterday's crucial negotiations with ALRC management at League Central.

The players entered the 9am meeting amid talk of boycotts should their demands for a significantly increased salary cap not be satisfied. And while the meeting was convivial enough, the NRL's response failed to placate them.

The major sticking point is the 2013 salary cap, which the NRL provisionally set at $5 million earlier this year. The player union, RLPA, want $6.5 million and there was only the slightest accommodation on yesterday's bargaining table.

Interim NRL chief executive Shane Mattiske offered a $5.2 million cap for 2013, with half the $200,000 increase coming from bonus marquee player allowances.

The NRL's other suggestions for new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included:STATE of Origin match payments to rise 50 per cent from $20,000 to $30,000. The RLPA wants $40,000.

MINIMUM wage to rise from $55,000 to $65,000. The RLPA wants $80,000.

NO increase in finals bonuses after the players had demanded six-figure guarantees.

RETIREMENT fund contributions to rise from $3000 to $4500 per annum. The RLPA wants the AFL model, which invests over $18,000 for each player every season.

Most of the players' demands have been configured around comparative studies of what their peers in other codes, specifically AFL, earn.

...Farah and King repeatedly challenged Mattiske to explain how and why the ALRC decided to invest $45 million per annum into the future fund over the course of the five-year broadcast deal.

While the players aren't opposed to money being put aside for junior development and expansion, they feel the ALRC's desire to save for a rainy day is costing them directly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6527798399

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

You are now just posting every news story about RL without even thinking........the NRL players are asking for a fair share of revenue just like the AFL players have got, why did you make this thread again???? =D>

[Xman]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

THE game's most powerful players want ALRC chairman John Grant to personally explain his $225 million future fund, which has emerged as the prime culprit for their ongoing pay dispute with officialdom.

In an unprecedented show of unity, Test stars Jonathan Thurston and Cameron Smith dashed from interstate to join representative peers Robbie Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Michael Croker and Jason King for yesterday's crucial negotiations with ALRC management at League Central.

The players entered the 9am meeting amid talk of boycotts should their demands for a significantly increased salary cap not be satisfied. And while the meeting was convivial enough, the NRL's response failed to placate them.

The major sticking point is the 2013 salary cap, which the NRL provisionally set at $5 million earlier this year. The player union, RLPA, want $6.5 million and there was only the slightest accommodation on yesterday's bargaining table.

Interim NRL chief executive Shane Mattiske offered a $5.2 million cap for 2013, with half the $200,000 increase coming from bonus marquee player allowances.

The NRL's other suggestions for new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included:STATE of Origin match payments to rise 50 per cent from $20,000 to $30,000. The RLPA wants $40,000.

MINIMUM wage to rise from $55,000 to $65,000. The RLPA wants $80,000.

NO increase in finals bonuses after the players had demanded six-figure guarantees.

RETIREMENT fund contributions to rise from $3000 to $4500 per annum. The RLPA wants the AFL model, which invests over $18,000 for each player every season.

Most of the players' demands have been configured around comparative studies of what their peers in other codes, specifically AFL, earn.

...Farah and King repeatedly challenged Mattiske to explain how and why the ALRC decided to invest $45 million per annum into the future fund over the course of the five-year broadcast deal.

While the players aren't opposed to money being put aside for junior development and expansion, they feel the ALRC's desire to save for a rainy day is costing them directly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6527798399

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

You are now just posting every news story about RL without even thinking........the NRL players are asking for a fair share of revenue just like the AFL players have got, why did you make this thread again???? =D>

Yeah but the AFL can afford it, the NRL obviously cant

[Beaussie]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

THE game's most powerful players want ALRC chairman John Grant to personally explain his $225 million future fund, which has emerged as the prime culprit for their ongoing pay dispute with officialdom.

In an unprecedented show of unity, Test stars Jonathan Thurston and Cameron Smith dashed from interstate to join representative peers Robbie Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Michael Croker and Jason King for yesterday's crucial negotiations with ALRC management at League Central.

The players entered the 9am meeting amid talk of boycotts should their demands for a significantly increased salary cap not be satisfied. And while the meeting was convivial enough, the NRL's response failed to placate them.

The major sticking point is the 2013 salary cap, which the NRL provisionally set at $5 million earlier this year. The player union, RLPA, want $6.5 million and there was only the slightest accommodation on yesterday's bargaining table.

Interim NRL chief executive Shane Mattiske offered a $5.2 million cap for 2013, with half the $200,000 increase coming from bonus marquee player allowances.

The NRL's other suggestions for new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included:STATE of Origin match payments to rise 50 per cent from $20,000 to $30,000. The RLPA wants $40,000.

MINIMUM wage to rise from $55,000 to $65,000. The RLPA wants $80,000.

NO increase in finals bonuses after the players had demanded six-figure guarantees.

RETIREMENT fund contributions to rise from $3000 to $4500 per annum. The RLPA wants the AFL model, which invests over $18,000 for each player every season.

Most of the players' demands have been configured around comparative studies of what their peers in other codes, specifically AFL, earn.

...Farah and King repeatedly challenged Mattiske to explain how and why the ALRC decided to invest $45 million per annum into the future fund over the course of the five-year broadcast deal.

While the players aren't opposed to money being put aside for junior development and expansion, they feel the ALRC's desire to save for a rainy day is costing them directly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6527798399

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

You are now just posting every news story about RL without even thinking........the NRL players are asking for a fair share of revenue just like the AFL players have got, why did you make this thread again???? =D>

The point dumbarse is the ARLC told the players to get stuffed with their demands. The code is a shambles with clearly little funds to pay their players, hence players continually jumping ship seeking out other codes and threats of boycotting games. Can't see this ending well can you? What of the future fund? Hmmm

[Raiderdave]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

THE game's most powerful players want ALRC chairman John Grant to personally explain his $225 million future fund, which has emerged as the prime culprit for their ongoing pay dispute with officialdom.

In an unprecedented show of unity, Test stars Jonathan Thurston and Cameron Smith dashed from interstate to join representative peers Robbie Farah, Jarryd Hayne, Michael Croker and Jason King for yesterday's crucial negotiations with ALRC management at League Central.

The players entered the 9am meeting amid talk of boycotts should their demands for a significantly increased salary cap not be satisfied. And while the meeting was convivial enough, the NRL's response failed to placate them.

The major sticking point is the 2013 salary cap, which the NRL provisionally set at $5 million earlier this year. The player union, RLPA, want $6.5 million and there was only the slightest accommodation on yesterday's bargaining table.

Interim NRL chief executive Shane Mattiske offered a $5.2 million cap for 2013, with half the $200,000 increase coming from bonus marquee player allowances.

The NRL's other suggestions for new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included:STATE of Origin match payments to rise 50 per cent from $20,000 to $30,000. The RLPA wants $40,000.

MINIMUM wage to rise from $55,000 to $65,000. The RLPA wants $80,000.

NO increase in finals bonuses after the players had demanded six-figure guarantees.

RETIREMENT fund contributions to rise from $3000 to $4500 per annum. The RLPA wants the AFL model, which invests over $18,000 for each player every season.

Most of the players' demands have been configured around comparative studies of what their peers in other codes, specifically AFL, earn.

...Farah and King repeatedly challenged Mattiske to explain how and why the ALRC decided to invest $45 million per annum into the future fund over the course of the five-year broadcast deal.

While the players aren't opposed to money being put aside for junior development and expansion, they feel the ALRC's desire to save for a rainy day is costing them directly.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6527798399

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

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hes got nothing poor ol Bearsy

NRL players even if they got this pay rise .... would still get a smaller % of overall revenue that was granted ... to the greedy merkins in the VFL who by gaining these increases in payments ... threaten to bring half of that comps clubs to their knees

see Pork Swordlaide & the Paddle pop wions & half a dozen other clubs for proof

[Xman]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

>

hes got nothing poor ol Bearsy

NRL players even if they got this pay rise .... would still get a smaller % of overall revenue that was granted ... to the greedy merkins in the VFL who by gaining these increases in payments ... threaten to bring half of that comps clubs to their knees

see Pork Swordlaide & the Paddle pop wions & half a dozen other clubs for proof

the AFL can afford their rise, the NRL cannot, hence their refusal. You see Dave, there's more to running a club than simple profit. A larger budget pays for salary cap plus more. Im not surprised the NRL are baulking. How the hell are the Raiders going to pay so much more when their annual football revenue is so small?

[Raiderdave]

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

>

hes got nothing poor ol Bearsy

NRL players even if they got this pay rise .... would still get a smaller % of overall revenue that was granted ... to the greedy merkins in the VFL who by gaining these increases in payments ... threaten to bring half of that comps clubs to their knees

see Pork Swordlaide & the Paddle pop wions & half a dozen other clubs for proof

the AFL can afford their rise :

the 9 VFL clubs who don't know where their next penny is coming from ... see it differently !

[ParraEelsNRL]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

You are now just posting every news story about RL without even thinking........the NRL players are asking for a fair share of revenue just like the AFL players have got, why did you make this thread again???? =D>

Yeah but the AFL can afford it, the NRL obviously cant

Bahahaha, stupid post by a stupid moron.

That's all you need to know.

[ParraEelsNRL]

$6 million **********, $6 million.

[eelofwest]

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

>

hes got nothing poor ol Bearsy

NRL players even if they got this pay rise .... would still get a smaller % of overall revenue that was granted ... to the greedy merkins in the VFL who by gaining these increases in payments ... threaten to bring half of that comps clubs to their knees

see Pork Swordlaide & the Paddle pop wions & half a dozen other clubs for proof

the AFL can afford their rise, the NRL cannot, hence their refusal. You see Dave, there's more to running a club than simple profit. A larger budget pays for salary cap plus more. Im not surprised the NRL are baulking. How the hell are the Raiders going to pay so much more when their annual football revenue is so small?

Well i would like to know how you came to that conclusion Xman, do tell.......??? =D> =D>

[eelofwest]

Hmm, wasn't there great hopes from the recent tv deal that the future fund would assist the NRL/ARLC to fight back against the AFL?

What future fund after the players get their hands on it I hear ya saying. What happens with the broadcast deal if there is a player strike/boycott of games?

Gotta feel for NRL players. They just want what one can already get in the AFL. Poor buggers.

The NRL players are asking for 25% of all revenue just like the AFL players association got.

WTF beassie pick up your game...............

You are now just posting every news story about RL without even thinking........the NRL players are asking for a fair share of revenue just like the AFL players have got, why did you make this thread again???? =D>

The point dumbarse is the ARLC told the players to get stuffed with their demands. The code is a shambles with clearly little funds to pay their players, hence players continually jumping ship seeking out other codes and threats of boycotting games. Can't see this ending well can you? What of the future fund? Hmmm

More Pie in the sky stuff from a more desperate bunch of AFL fans on this site.......

Wait its a bird its a plane,no its superman..........anymore delusions for me to sample......... Always asking open ended questions that not one person knows the answer to.................speculation is all i see from you lot quite pathetic and showing real signs of desperation.....keep it coming...

[Striker]

The AFL can afford what? They're sinking so much into the Giants and the Suns there's not enough left!

I sympathise with the NRL players. The salary cap has to go up. Trouble is the ARLC won't do it because they're afraid of the Storm!!

[Xman]

The AFL can afford what? They're sinking so much into the Giants and the Suns there's not enough left!

I sympathise with the NRL players. The salary cap has to go up. Trouble is the ARLC won't do it because they're afraid of the Storm!!

Salary cap has to go?? What? How the hell would that work?

[Striker]

Salary cap has to go UP!! Learn to read, dimwit!!

[Xman]

Salary cap has to go UP!! Learn to read, dimwit!!

my mistake