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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3100036, member: 9052"] In the current system I just cannot see how a relegation promotion would work purely because of cash. The NRL currently provides $13m to each team. If you get relegated from the NRL comp I'd imagine that funding goes with it. What happens to all the players under contract to a team that just got relegated... 90% of NRL clubs run at a loss so they won't be able to pay the $10m of player contracts. Even if they somehow could pay the full salary cap worth of contracts, there would be an exodus of the playing talent anyway because they won't want to play in the lower division for a year. All the sponsorships that team has would also be lost because they'd no longer be on national TV. Basically the first team(s) to be relegated would end up being 5-10 years behind the remaining NRL teams due to loss of cash, sponsorship and players... I could see it basically killing whichever club drops first. In the years following the first drop it would just end up being a constant cycling of whichever ISC team gets promoted just getting relegated again the next year, because they would be so far behind the NRL teams that they just wouldn't be able to compete [/QUOTE]

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