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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2664430, member: 1917"] The salary cap is not working. More broadly, the intention behind the salary cap is IMO wrong. There is too much focus on parity in this game. It reduces quality immensely. I'm going to use 3 examples - Manly, Titans and then the Tigers. Manly have been a high quality side for sometime and good to watch. This is partially because they developed DCE and Foran nicely as a combination. Next year both are leaving, and I am almost certain the brand of football Manly will offer next year will be low quality, low entertainment. They'll quite simply have no halves. A team in a similar predicament is the Titans, DCE's destination. For a few years, they too have been playing a turgid brand of football. They are not only an unsuccessful team but also a bland, unentertaining one. Your idea of entertainment may differ, but certainly the crowd figures back this up. Not only for the Titans, but the game more broadly. Even if you agree with the Salary Cap, it's still not working effectively. The Raiders have to pay massive overs to sign star players, and even then they back flip. Because they are Canberra, they will have to pay a premium for non elite players too. This does not create parity, it just creates overpaid, marginally talented Canberra Raiders. One of those backflipping players is Tedesco. The Tigers have been turgid for a few years, but they are on the brink of something special IMO. Tedesco, Moses, Brooks and Farah (though some years older) is the most exciting young spine in the competition IMO. 3/4 of them are very young and I think could be the backbone of a highly successful, highly entertaining team for years to come. However, the salary cap may break them up. If it does, how can we possibly call this a success for the game? On a final note, crowd figures are down. I think they are down from figures 10 years ago too. TV ratings are too I believe. Now, you could argue this is because of the cricket World Cup, but this has delayed the AFL season, so right now it's only been cricket we've been up against. And games are live now too (Well, in NSW at least). All the salary cap really does is reduce the quality of teams and create a bland, unexciting product. The focus on parity (this includes bullshit reffing too) is hindering the game rather than helping it IMO. [/QUOTE]

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