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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2294265, member: 1764"] IMO we wouldn't need to match them, we'd just need to go close enough. The players prefer playing league. They prefer playing Origin. But $1 million vs $400000 is a massive massive gap. If the cap was raised even by 500K, it would allow a player like Thurston to be paid $600K, even $700K. Suddenly it's not so unappealing to stay. Bear in mind there is already discontent among AFL and Union players that these imports get paid more than players that have come through all the ranks and are even stars of that sport already. Not even Johnathon Brown at the Lions is on as much as Harmichael will get from the Gold Coast AFL team (and AFL themselves)... Western Sydney offering the same to Israel? A bloke who probably only occasionally kicks the ball as a muckaround at training? Those offers to league converts will diminish as they start causing unrest amongst their own players, fans, supporters and administrators. [/QUOTE]

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