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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3409783, member: 9881"] The thing that worries me about this increase is that it is put in place to counter the hyper inflated market. You want the increase to be proactive not reactive. Cause now every agent will be asking for a 10% (roughly) increase on their players value come contract time on top of the hyper inflation the market has seen off the back of young athletic forwards. For mine Payne was going to balance the market again when it became obvious he wouldn’t command a million dollars. I think when every club heard that they started frothing cause if a deal had gone through where Payne was on less than a million than the whole market would go back to normal specifically in the forwards. This happening probably allows a club to go get Payne on a million and it would be as if he is on 800-900 in the current state the market is in. But it is a flow on effect which allows forwards and their agents to think they have a greater value in the game than what they truly do. Really hard for the NRL to negate and could take a matter of years for all 16 clubs to realise a talented forward is not who you should pay the big bucks. Look whilst I think the increase is needed for the players to continue to earn their rightful piece of the NRL’s profit pie I think clubs need to take a real hard look at the state the comp is in with such a huge spectrum of diversity in teams abilities that is coming off the back of desperate clubs not having the luxury of managing their cap. Obviously they can’t meet up and decide agree upon a limit forwards can be paid cause that’s collusion but clubs need to take a real hard look at the way the current market structure for forwards is driving a wedge into the slowly (very slowly but it is happening) dying product we all love. Payment structures of players is so vital take one look at the Super Rugby. Dead competition cause of the pay structure. Whilst it is a slightly different situation union is still an indirect competitor of ours and if the money starts going over to union than we could be fucked very quickly. Need to improve this product and keep it at a high standard or there won’t be much of a product left. Possibly 12-24 months to early to announce this change. Albeit players deserve their piece of the pie but it just won’t be dispersed at the end of the day the same few players with ego’s will be consuming this money from clubs. [/QUOTE]

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