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Message: [QUOTE="Reyter, post: 2951283, member: 9656"] That is false. I mean the part about Union always having the upper hand insofar as player contracts/payments. Out of desperation they bet hugely on a few big name league recruits, got a temporary bounce, pissed off the existing (and probably better insofar as Union) Union players with their massively inflated contracts (much like according to rumors Milford and Bird are doing now at the Broncos) and now are in an even bigger hole. I know it's hypothetical but one could speculate guys like Ponga and Crighton (and I'm sure many lesser players) would be playing Union now if the ARU hadn't bet so large and lost on a few league players. I guess the main reason why the NRL isn't raiding the ARU of it's best players is because NRL clubs think so few of them would make it in the NRL. I'm not the most positive guy (if everything were proceeding just how I like it, why would I bother commenting on it?) but one has to give the NRL credit for the way they have managed some aspects the product. No knee-jerk reactions to the ARU or AFL raiding the NRL players and rapidly expanding before a large enough market was present. [/QUOTE]

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