Most of the criticism of salary caps is based on two premises: one, they are impossible to police and, two, they don't work.
Fraud squad police raid the offices of four NRL player managers over the Parramatta Eels salary cap scandal.
The National Rugby League has had 12 premiers since 1998. You can choose to believe that is a co-incidence if you like but when St George Illawarra and Melbourne were given dispensation in 1999 because they were each mergers of a sort, they played in the grand final.
Discord chooses to believe the salary cap in the NRL works so well in distributing talent we don't even need a draft.
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But impossible to enforce? That's not a bad point, considering the handing over of paper bags is very hard to police, especially if the recipient doesn't deposit the funds.
The sight of police on the doorsteps of the likes of Wayne Beavis and Sam Ayoub, however, changes things significantly because ... who's to say the police won't be in that McDonald's carpark next time a quarter pounder of cash changes hands? While the cap was an artifice invented and overseen by League Central, circumventing it must have seemed like a game to some people.
To utilise an over-used American cliche of recent years "this s--t just got real".
You might say the tentacles of the law in NSW already stretch too far; that it's not so much a Nanny State as a Warden State. You might also say that the more public the police are regarding these sorts of investigations, the worse their investigations seem to be progressing.
But if police involvement frightens clubs, players and agents from nefarious actions and strengthens the effectiveness of the salary cap, then the competition will benefit.
And that's enough for Discord to heartily welcome the involvement of the strong arm of the law.
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