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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 3259980, member: 8988"] I think people are missing the bigger picture in either their disappointment or elation on every new signing to or from a club. Every time a player leaves one club for another, it does 3 things. It diminishes the player's brand to the old club, reduces the club's brand and diminishes the tribal support of clubs. Now please don't misunderstand me. I'm not having a go at Coates for leaving or for that matter the broncos for chasing Reynolds, or even Melbourne for signing Coates. That's just the way the system works. BUT that is the problem. There is no advantage for keeping players in the long term as their values inevitably clash with the static amount that is the salary cap. Clubs are forever recycling players through contracts. What is the answer? Mine is not a perfect one but perhaps it may assist in this. Rather than the cap as it stands, simply bring in an over-arching entity and have all players contracted to that. Only players contracted to the NRL can play within the comp and potential players must place themselves within a draft. Clubs then must compete to sign those players in an auction. This money isn't paid to the player but to the NRL for the services of the player , and that value is added to pool that pays players'actual salaries (along with an agreed upon percentage of TV rights and sponsorship of the NRL) as based on an agreement between the RLPA association and the NRL. A set cap can be put on the spend of each club but players should be able earn outside this and as long as that player remains at the club his initial value at auction counts. There would of course be discounts to values for players beyond a certain age. The advantages would be that every player would be available to every club. Their values would be set in stone at the initial point of sale but clubs would be under no restriction to pay that as a steadfast fee but could increase it for the player's benefit to ensure loyalty. Every players contract could end at the same time and be bargained together. Older players and fringe players are protected for their income to a point (until they no longer represent value to a club) Juniors and others outside of the NRL could be placed into a tier 2 draft system with ISC and NSW cup teams competing for their services that are then available to purchase at auction at completion of a set number of games or age. All bids for players are disclosed. [/QUOTE]

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