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Message: [QUOTE="Kimlo, post: 2664416, member: 2021"] Now for my thoughts. I believe the system works to a certain extent, it certainly stops a club like us having 17 internationals, but clubs like Canberra will always struggle to sign a genuine superstar (or even keep them) with other clubs offering better lifestyle for the same or more money without using the cap directly. The issue here, in my opinion, is third part agreements which don't count under the cap. Someone like Uncle Nick running the Roosters would have a whole heap of business connections to secure third party deals, so much so they could realistically be paying players 3-4 million outside of the cap while a club like Canberra would be lucky to get half a million in third party deals. So how do you fix that? If you ban third party deals which is almost impossible to police, we'll end up losing all our best players to rival codes. If you increase the salary cap and ban TPA, you still end up with a hard to police situation, after all, they're third party deals and the NRL can't just check the players bank accounts every week. One though I had, was all TPA would need to be disclosed to the NRL (as they already are) and whatever the disparity is between the highest TPA value a club could get, and the lowest, the NRL itself should compensate for this with salary cap concessions equivalent to that value. This allows less marketable clubs to still have a fair chance of offering the same amount as richer clubs. Another way of doing it is to simply have a permanent 30% discount on juniors brought through the club system. This would force clubs to focus on their development long term, and makes weaker clubs much more competitive in keeping their star players. Over to you guys! [/QUOTE]

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