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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3117253, member: 8215"] The NRL has allowed the poorly run clubs to continue to exist, and therefore holds at least some responsibility for the players and staff that have been employed by them. I would suggest the NRL themselves continue to pay the players and the staff for the remaining duration of their contracts, only those signed before the season was put on hold. But if any of those players sign another contract with a new NRL (or Super League) club, regardless of whether it's less than what they were on before, the NRL pays them nothing. The discarded players, and likely coaching staff, will want to work for a surviving NRL team, but this will prevent certain teams from poaching the best on minimum $ deals while the NRL chips in the rest. Conversely, if a gun player is happy to ply his trade in the Qld or NSW cup, while being paid big dollars by the NRL, at least every NRL club will have an equal chance of signing them when their contract eventually expires. I think keep it to the same 30-player squads. It does mean that some fringe players will lose their spots over the next few years as the off-contract players pick up spots, but this way the talent that is retained, and play in the NRL, are the highest quality. And from here on in, the NRL need to get tough. The teams that pay overs for players, and then field sub-standard teams, knowing the NRL is footing the bill, will receive a huge wake-up call, if they even survive in the first place. There needs to be something in place like minimum crowd numbers. If your club can't attract fans, then they don't deserve to exist. Will some rich clubs give away free tickets to the public in order to pump up their numbers? Probably, but they will need to be able to afford to give away the tickets, and at least it means exposing more people to the game (who may go on to become members, or at least pay), and also brings exposure to sponsors and sales to the vendors at the grounds. Better still, any free tickets given away by clubs need to be a certain proportion of kids, or at least families, and let's go further and include a $10 per person food & drink voucher in case the families can't afford the extortionist prices. Again, the club will be paying for it - if they can't afford it, they don't deserve to survive. [/QUOTE]

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