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Message: [QUOTE="Mustafur, post: 3578555, member: 10189"] If they allowed each team to have one unrestricted union player the league could easily have the 17 best union players(alteast in suitable positions)in the NRL overnight given each team would have plenty in reserve to spend(in that situation we could easily go ham and get a player worth over 5 mil a season and it wouldn't be an issue just on how we operate now). But Union isn't an issue here, it's dead in Australia and is on track to decline even in NZ as super rugby has ghost town attendances and with South Africa having left that competition the quality has dropped, Japan and France club game still has money to buy marquee players but French rugby isn't growing and the league lost money last year and the big spending is only allowed due to the fact they don't have a salary cap like NRL and a few clubs have very wealthy owners who just spend for fun, NRL makes way more revenue than those leagues already and the gap is getting bigger each year. Union only has the international game but the club scene is dying, not really sure how a sport can function with that situation happening since the club scene is required to get the players for the international game. If NRL keeps growing to a point it can sign top union players without difficulty on higher wages, NRL can solve the international question with league that way too. [/QUOTE]

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