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Message: [QUOTE="subsbligh, post: 2627944, member: 1950"] It's bullshit. Market price should be what the player accepts as a salary from the club on an open book basis. Have the club, player and agent sign a statutory declaration that no additional side contracts or agreements are in place. Have the registration conditional on immediate termination of the player's contract for the rest of the season, deduction of 10 competition points from the club and 12 month sanctions against the player and agent for any false declarations found to be made. It would also have repercussions under the Oaths Act (i.e. it's a criminal offence). Player, agent and club should all be equally responsible for salary cap breaches. In this day and age, and after the Storm debacle, and to a degree the Sharks doping scandal, all players need to take more responsibility in their dealings with the club. That's a sufficient deterrent and market equaliser for deals that sound "too good to be true". It also pushes regulation back onto the player and club to manage the risk in their negotiations, to undertake their own due diligence at the time of making the contract. The player's contract could have a liquidated damages (i.e. pay lost earnings during suspension year) clause and indemnity for lost earnings during the suspension period, should the club be doing the dodgy behind his back. How does the salary cap audtior (SCA) assign a discount from market value for Boyd's "loyalty"/desire to play with Bennett. So say Boyd is apparently valued at $600K on the open market, does he pluck a figure out of the air and call it $450K allowing $150K a season for the Bennett discount? Conversely, if Brisbane pay $600K a season where open market would be $600K, aren't we actually discounting the $150K and he should be registered for $750K against our salary cap. Otherwise $150K of value that Boyd is receiving is not recorded against the Broncos salary cap and Brisbane have $150K of additional player value. So, Chris Sandow for example. The Eels paid probably $300K a season to much for him on his $600K deal. Is he recorded at $600K or the arbitrary $300K market value? What about drops in form. Ben Barba at the end of 2012 (when he signed a 3 year deal with the Bulldogs?) is probably worth $600K a season, at least. Now, he will be lucky to make first grade next year so his actual market value more like $200-300K per season (a Jack Reed sort of player). His 3 year contract is registered at 600K value, surely then we should be entitled to an offset for the remaining year against the salary cap as his market value is dramatically reduced. That's $400K we could have to sign another player to our squad. It's a stupid rule. [/QUOTE]

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