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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3477145, member: 1899"] It depends on what they set the new minimum to for the Top 26. So last year the minimum for your Top 26 was $120,000. Clubs were allowed to have four players below that threshold and they had to earn a salary of $80,000. Under the new arrangement, we know that those 27-30 players will receive a $40,000 pay-rise. However we don't know if that applies to the Top 26 just yet. Interestingly, the development squad salary has more than doubled from $240,000 to $650,000. The interesting thing is most clubs don't use all their available spots so there's an opportunity for clubs to pay players a higher salary without taking up a Top 30 spot. I don't think that's how it works in practice but that would open up the possibility of a club enticing players with ridiculous offers only to sit them in development and go with a cheap 'train and trial' option if an opportunity arises. Again, I don't think that's the way it'll work but clubs could easily go 'we can't play our $300K gun rookie, he'll die out there! please let us use this cheap plod we picked out of NSW Cup instead' And if history is anything to go by, they'll allow it. According to the NRL website, the Top 30 salary cap increased at 22% however contracts with ratchet clauses can only go up by 18% creating a disparity. [/QUOTE]

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