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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 3354304, member: 8423"] Maybe the answer is started in this case study. The Cows have put three years development into him. Once a player is on an NRL contract he’s free game but should be compensated for the three years development. Again this argument I’m putting forward will probably be able to easily be picked apart and that’s fine but off the top of my head: A player needs to be compensated up to the age of 19/20. If a club poaches a player at 20/21, so be it (this could easily be adjusted / re-visited). So if a club picks up a player at 15 or younger let’s say, then the kid is essentially that clubs junior (again this will likely be easily argued but just go with it). Club A (in this case Cows let’s say) put three/four years development into player X. Club B (obviously in most cases the Roosters) comes along and poaches this kid before he turns 20. Club B now has to pay Club A let’s say a compensation figure of $50k a year, so club A gets 200k (for the four years l) or 150k (for the three years) and they can add this to their salary cap and club B loses it off theirs. This is a strong disincentive to poach. Additionally, on top of the transfer fee, for every year a player is at a club from say 16, they get a discount up to the age of 19 of 50k a year to a maximum of 200k as a discount in the salary cap. There are likely holes left, right and centre in this but it rewards a club for development and retention and penalises a club for poaching, at least to some extent. [/QUOTE]

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