So the clubs that can't afford to use the whole TV money on salary should be kicked out and go bust I suppose?the pieman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:14 pm
all clubs should have money to spend up to the cap - or should have done prior to the new TV dealnathan_rugby wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:56 pm
Force clubs to spend money they don’t have?Wes wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:46 pm
RE cap, if every team had to spend a minimum of 90% it would bring bottom teams up, as it is it brings top teams down.
Sky basically paid the equivalent of 2.1million to each SL club, and therefore they should have been made to use that money on 1st team salary cap, but clearly, several clubs didnt / dont
Even if the sky money has now dropped to a lower level, the clubs should be forced to use that to pay as much as they can on 1st team player salaries
as many have said (many times previously too), the tail wags the dog when it comes to RL, and thus we are always defined by the lowest denominator, not the highest and its time that changed
if the Sky money equates to 1.5mill, then that should all be paid as salaries, the rest needs to be made up by the club, if they are going to pay up to the cap, but they cant not use TV money
These are all very principled arguments, but we don't live in a world where there's money sloshing around, or interest from large corporations wanting to chuck sponsorship at us (meds). How do we operate now, in order to improve our competition and get to the point where we're in demand for TV and sponsorship deals?
I'd argue you can't do that with 3-4 "big clubs" and no realistic competition outside of that group. Someone's going to compare us to the Premier league now I imagine, but we're just not in the same position as that league in any meaningful way.
IMO centralising the finances of the whole organisation makes a lot of sense. I think the Hern's wanted to do something like this - i.e. own everything, but weren't able to