Rugby League 2020

Storm were impressive against the useless Coastal Filth (who had the fumbles).

Coronavirus might be the only thing to stop them winning the comp.

Drags choke on the bell.

Hunt sliced through near the posts but Vaughan couldn't take the pass that would've seen him under or beside the posts.

Then to compound things, Frizzell burst through and passed poorly to the inside men. You can't blow golden chances like that!!

Sooks.

Thank fark Covid-19 is gonna fark this season, as the Drags would have to be odds-on to push for the Spoon.

skully wrote:Warriors will stay in Aus for the duration of the NZ travel bans and base themselves on the Gold Coast.

they want to go home, so that's throwing a massive spanner in the works.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/warriors-reject-nrl-coronavirus-proposal-to-remain-in-australia/news-story/68999818412dbc0c303ff9485456ce73

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/nrl/catastrophic-nrl-cash-reserves-would-dry-up-in-three-months-without-games-20200315-p54aa9.html

that's really concerning for them!

Nath wrote:

skully wrote:Warriors will stay in Aus for the duration of the NZ travel bans and base themselves on the Gold Coast.

they want to go home, so that's throwing a massive spanner in the works.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/warriors-reject-nrl-coronavirus-proposal-to-remain-in-australia/news-story/68999818412dbc0c303ff9485456ce73

Pretty unsurprising that the players rebelled and opted to return home.

They could have been stuck in Aus for months if the NRL continues to play and the virus continues to spread. That would be very hard on their families.

This is just a game - not war.

This thread will die with the season soon.

With Qld closing their borders, the NRL season must now be on a knife edge.

For the uninitiated Qld has 3 teams in the NRL. So unless the teams' charter flights are exempt, no games for those 3 teams.

About to be officially suspended...

Happening live just now. Allegedly for player safety but more likely the closing of state borders.

V'landys seems like a bigger dickhead than the usual Oz sports administrator

didnt know that was possible

NRL admin isn't as awful as the ARU admin, but they're closing the gap in this time of social distancing.

skully wrote:This thread will die with the season soon.

Nah, with schools closing expect there will more stories of NRL players misbehaving.

On the upside, a few of us could chip in a couple of bucks now and buy the Manly Sea Eagles and then make sure they come last every year from 2021.

Now that's a plan.

Buy the club, turn the ground into real real estate and use part of the profits to give their brain dead supporters frontal lobotomies to make them worthwhile human beings. A redundancy or two in there I know.

Sydney Roosters Expected To Finally Fall Below The Salary Cap With 87% Pay Cut To Players

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In a sign of the strange times we live in, the Sydney Roosters NRL club are expected to finally fall under the salary cap for the first time since the turn of the millennium.

This comes as the RLPA and the NRL discuss the fact the game has no coin left in the bank after a single week of not playing.

The calling off of the season means that if another game isn’t played, the $12m the NRL has in its coffers works out at roughly $26,000 per player for the next seven months, if the salary cap is shared equally across the 480 players in each of the 16 clubs’ top 30 squads.

As a result, the players have been asked to take an 87% pay cut with the game’s senior and premier players urged to think about helping out.

That giant pay cut is set to be fiercely debated over the next days, as NRL players come to terms with the fact they might be treated like normal members of society.

However, one notable outcome from the inevitable pay cut means that the Roosters are finally salary-cap compliant.

“Yeah, it’s going to be nice to not have to do a George Calombaris on the books this year,” explained the Roosters head of accounting.

“I will still be keeping all those things like apartments down near Clovelly or Bronte beach, free cars and trust funds in relatives names to ourselves, but with the pay cut, we can ensure we are paying our group more than the $9.8 million as a club.”

We asked the head of the Chookpen to tell us how it was going to feel to not be cheating the salary cap this year, and he unsurprisingly told us to ‘****** Off’ in typical Roosters fan fashion.

“It’s not ****** funny. It’s shit chat. Just ****** off. Sorry, we actually manage our accounts and are smart with our money,” he said extremely aggressively.

We left it at that.

More to come.

Probably the closest to the truth a Betoota article has ever been

They must miss the old days when they could buy a premiership legally.

So it appears a deal has been done with the players to keep the NRL financial beyond this season (or whatever part of the season gets played).

I see the players have refused to sign the new deal until Todd Greenberg takes a similar pay cut. He has relented and agreed.

Not much love lost between players and the CEO.

Tbf he'll be doing a bit more than just mowing the lawn and sinking tinnies in front of daytime soaps this year.

I know that, Q, but the players are simple creatures.

Actually I was just playing devil's advocate. He should take a haircut. Not sure of his personal circumstances but as I've noted before comparisons with McLachlan are unfair.

Bradman wrote:Tbf he'll be doing a bit more than just mowing the lawn and sinking tinnies in front of daytime soaps this year.

Indeed. Juvenile shit from the RLPA. Same as those idiots complaining that ScoMo isn't taking a pay cut.

JGK wrote:

Bradman wrote:Tbf he'll be doing a bit more than just mowing the lawn and sinking tinnies in front of daytime soaps this year.

Indeed.  Juvenile shit from the RLPA.   Same as those idiots complaining that ScoMo isn't taking a pay cut.

Tough one isn't it? Anything less than X amount looks like a PR stunt and X is in the eye of the beholder. Probably cutting the base salary for all by x and freezing some of the perks for all but the cabinet and shadows? The Canberra allowance rort alone won't need to be paid for most.

As I said, they are simple creatures.