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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3696101, member: 1899"] Let's use the Broncos as a case study. They have five junior 'guns' on their list: Coby Black, Israel Leota, Bailey Trew, Cameron Bukowski and Jett Bryce. These are five players who all played Mal Meninga Cup last year and they're just entering the NRL system. Black and Leota are on 135K minimum since they're on NRL deals. Trew, Bukowski and Bryce are supposedly on 80K. Then you have players like Beni Allen and Saxon Innes who are contracted to the club and are at a similar stage in their development as the other guns but those deals aren't covered on the NRL website. This is where I'm curious. I presume when they train with the NRL squad, they're on training deals which nets them a $1000 a week. However, I presume they also receive a base salary when they're training with the affiliate clubs which could be anywhere between 10K-70K a year. So if we take Harry Armstrong as an example, he's presumably on the same deal as Allen and Innes. Except now he's playing Flegg for Penrith - what can Flegg players earn? I still think the Broncos and the other QCup clubs are missing a trick without a Flegg side. Melbourne have always been the argument for affiliate clubs, but even they have a Flegg side. [/QUOTE]

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