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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3376307, member: 9052"] I think having a reserve grade competition would be great, but I'm not sure it works out logistically. NRL squads are currently 30 with development players tacked on... with 18 of that top 30 playing each week you will need to supplement the other 12 not playing. I'd say you'd need at least another 20 players for each squad or maybe even 25-30. If you're going to have the reserve grade team play with the NRL team then you're basically doubling the game day expenses for every team. That would need to be paid by the NRL as they are putting the obligation on the club to do it... and I'm not sure they can cover that additional cost with media rights alone. The issue with under 20's wasn't that people didn't want to watch it, but more around the current NRL schedule each week, with games largely being back to back, so they only ended up televising 1-2 games a week. For a reserve grade comp that's probably happening again otherwise you're asking Fox to setup the production for a Thursday reserve grade game at 5pm and Friday at like 2pm (so they can get their normal pre-game in as well). People are working through the week and barely attending Thursday night game as it is, so I don't think clubs are getting a whole lot of people to a Friday 2pm game to cover the costs of setting up food and bev, security, etc. The new players to the comp would also likely not be full time footballers, unless the NRL bump up the salary cap quite a bit, so they can't really be heading over to NZ to play the warriors at 2pm Friday. I think the lowest cap price at the moment is about $75k for 7 players in the top 30 (or something like that). Assuming an additional 20 players per squad, you'd think $75-100k is the top bracket for that squad and reducing down from there (otherwise they would be in the top 30)... so $50k-75k probably isn't enough to be a full time footballer and sitting at number 40 on the team sheet. Outside of that there would also be doubling up on team's coaching and fitness staff, and huge impact and lessening of the quality in the ISC comps (that's where the extra 340 players will be coming from)... I just don't think clubs would be keen on it unless the NRL are putting in a lot of money to get it started and keep it going... and if the NRL are paying for it, then it's probably coming out of the club's grants each year (so it ends up costing the clubs anyway). But in saying all that Vlando seems pretty keen to get something going, so it will probably get up at some point in the near future. [/QUOTE]

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