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Message: [QUOTE="Jedhead, post: 3380690, member: 9518"] Hey [USER=1899]@Big Pete[/USER] it's obvious you've put some time and thought into this, but I thought your opening statement was a wee bit shaky in so much as this scenario - "Say you're the Wests Tigers and you blood 10 players but you win the wooden spoon. The coach is sacked, new coach comes in and right away is under pressure to deliver results. There's pressure from up-stairs about some out of favour star player that they want to sign to sell season tickets and those 10 players that were blooded, 6 of them are off contract and they want to be the highest players at the club." Let's say for arguments sake that the ten players were all playing. This means the club receives a whopping $1 million off of the salary cap. Now as they were all rookies when they were brought into first grade (apart from the coach being an out and out fool) it would mean their combined salaries would hardly be stressing the clubs overall cap. So even if 6 wanted upgrades the bonus $1 million the club received would go a long way to giving them all an upgrade leaving the rest of the cap for the club to sign that marquee player to get bums on seats. If however, only say 4 of those 6 rookies were genuine top notch prospects the club could so easy say to the others "look here is what we are offering, if you can get better elsewhere then take it". This then leaves the club room to bring either cheaper journeymen or indeed promote other promising youngsters to fill the space. Maybe as a reward for development the NRL could stipulate that developed players not only saw the club credited by $100,000 from the cap but they were also off the market to other clubs for their first two years unless of course the club who 'blooded' them deemed them surplus to their requirements. This initial two season moratorium on developed rookies would also go a long way to stopping them from trying to hold their club to ransom for a bigger paycheck. After two seasons of the rookie playing first grade the club will have a) recouped much of their investment, b) received $200,000 dispensation, and c) will have had time to decide whether the player was worth retaining and therefore sign them up to a longer term deal before the moratorium was up and teams like the Roosters could get their hands on them. As I said in an earlier post when the rookie makes first grade the club should consider splitting the cap credit with them to stay with them. Money talks and this incentive might just compensate clubs by making them an attractive proposition and in doing so diminish the need for so called 'Gurus' like Gould. [/QUOTE]

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