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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2291331, member: 1764"] It's Gould's fundamental argument against the Salary Cap (not just him either, others on this forum have raised it, Ari Gold is one I think). The NRL applying a salary cap belies the fact that players have additional markets they can go to - English Super League, and Rugby Union just about anywhere in the world....and as Harmichael has shown, even gAyFL. All of those sports either have no salary cap, a salary cap with exemptions for such transfers, or a salary cap that dwarfs the NRL's completely. The net result is there's absolutely no way the NRL can compete on a dollar basis with these other competitions, and thus if players really want to earn the big dollars they will go. Guys like Darren Lockyer who want to play out their career in the NRL with the one club are as rare as hen's teeth these days, and will only get rarer as the sporting landscape because more business like. The NRL needs a salary cap in some form, absolutely. But if it's forcing some of our marquee talent to jump ship for double the money they can realistically get here then there's something wrong with it (too small, not enough flexibility for elite players etc). [/QUOTE]

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