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Message: [QUOTE="Allo, post: 3105971, member: 8190"] I agree it’s good for grassroots growth, but there’ll come a point that fans will want stable multi-year contracts systems and caps. (Obviously the season will need to be extended and/or teams to be increased). Because if you keep it as a free-for-all, while the points cap keep things ‘fair’, teams will continue to be a revolving door and a couple of lean seasons so early could spell the end for one of them. Also, while there are a lot of established stars that have been signed by all clubs, if too many get poached, because of the small number of elite players, there’s not as high a quality production line to replace them, even with only 4 teams. If the Roosters for example don’t make some astute signings and do lose Kelly, their team is going to be rather ordinary. Not really fair under the design of the points cap. Also you have players that may miss warranted rep selection, and are therefore more easily attained under the points cap, potentially convenient for a certain club. Now that does require a fair amount of conspiracy thinking, but honestly wouldn’t surprise me in this game. Sure I’m worried about losing some of our girls (yes ours), and while we overcame what was at the time a massive loss of almost our entire forward pack, we got a bit lucky replacing the second-rowers with players we arguably would’ve had all along, and even Boyle being up here for the Reds girls. That sort of luck will run out at some point. I’m not saying it’s a simple solution, particularly as the money just isn’t there (to that degree I wasn’t aware), but something needs to be put in place relatively soon to avoid the [S]NSW Origin side[/S] Dragons or Roosters signing an entire premiership squad inside a year or two. [/QUOTE]

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