The Biggest Issues In The NRL | Rugby League Roundtable | Season 2 EP #9

[@taiyonatiare7918]

I would love for this series to be year round and just switch the guests like Buzz, Gus Gould, Ricky Stuart and Willie Mason 😂 what a show that’d be

[@Jamie-mt7bq]

Bringing up Ben hunt in front of flanno, brilliant 😂

[@danielvermeer3363]

Try telling a sports star that they cant sign with nike cause they are offering too much. Rugby league should be proud that companies want to sponsor their athletes, and not cap TPAs.

[@poundworldfraz]

Really enjoyed every one of these. Keep it up boys

[@TheJuanvegas]

Reedy talking down suburban grounds with the "game has moved beyond that". Has it? One of the finals couldn't half fill Allianz after all the whinging about Cronulla being too small. Eg Watching Souths in a 60k empty seat morgue like Accor is absolutely miserable, and looks bad, even if they get corporate for it. Restructing or building new surbaban grounds like Commbank is the future

[@B-tr9kz]

He's saying the game has moved beyond suburban grounds with shit amenities and shit corporate facilities, which he is right. Clubs lose millions not having these. There is nothing wrong with having suburban grounds as long as its up to the standards you expect from a multi billion dollar sport.

[@TheJuanvegas]

@B-tr9kz but then on the other hand says don't bother throwing money at suburban grounds. Suggesting Manly play at Allianz is absurd, you can tell he gets paid to travel to and be at games

[@B-tr9kz]

@@TheJuanvegas It's a fair question imo. Its hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions to upgrade stadiums to modern standards, and there is a world class stadium across the bridge that doesn't get used enough. I want to keep the tradition of suburban grounds, but if clubs cant find the money to upgrade their venues to modern standards, they may just have to bite the bullet and move to these stadiums otherwise they are losing millions of dollars. I have no idea what the Sharks are going to do, but its good that Manly seems has a plan for Brookvale.

[@TheJuanvegas]

@B-tr9kz but they can do it. As you say, Mestrov just stated they are in the process of doing it. Reed just put his fingers in his ears. Put it this way, I live in the East, if Roosters started playing in the North shore, I'd just give up my membership. So would most I know, as they wouldn't be able to get there unless it's a weekend. If nice big empty stadiums on tv is what he is going for, fair enough, stick Manly in Allianz

[@B-tr9kz]

@@TheJuanvegas no one including Reed ultimately wants to stick Manly at Allianz, but if they can’t improve their stadium, then they won’t have a choice unfortunately. Stadiums don’t last forever. The AFL for example bit this bullet decades ago and split every Melbourne team between the MCG and Marvel Stadium, and its worked wonders for them. We don’t want to follow that model and that’s fine, but we need suburban stadiums to be of decent quality for clubs to flourish. We are halfway there in Sydney, we just need to fix up two or three suburban grounds and we are good to go.

[@supaplayer123]

People tapping people and players trying to leave is good for the game, creates a lot of player movement and spices up the comp 13:17

[@sambromley4078]

Reedy: tigers fans can drive fifty minutes to commbank, but we won’t drive fifty minutes coz it’s over a bridge… nice one!

[@weasel73]

If a player has a third party agreement that doesn't pay they can't take it to court because that risks the third party testifying in court that the club was in on the deal. If that happened they'd ruin the party for everyone and be labelled a dog, no player or player manager wants to do that.

[@RichardBroad-rb8dn]

I just hope that the game doesn't end up with the little guy having to pay for multiple subscriptions to watch their team play.

[@Abcdee8]

In Flano we Trust

[@knights162]

Ready's point about Brisbane winning comps is pretty floored. Unfair advantage is an unfair advantage, the NRL shouldn't have the view that, oh they have an unfair advantage but they suck so much that it won't get them a comp. The objective should be to get a fair advantage.

[@warrenturner397]

Can you please translate that. Not having a go - just can't understand what you're saying OK.

[@SaxophoneHero95]

“Play at Allianz. Great Stadium”… until it rains. 828 million dollars and they couldn’t even prevent it from turning into Wet’n’Wild. Could have spread that across all the suburban grounds and improved a number of stadiums

[@simonjames772]

ingenuous Kaeo going to the Raiders to play behind a bigger forward pack, it was definitely ricky giving an opportunity to a Gordon junior but i imagine the extra space and time he has with the forward pack is perfect for him.

[@Reznor440]

Just noticed Mestrov looks like a 50 year old Turbo with darker hair

[@soldieron3935]

There should be no cap on TPA’s. Players should be allowed to use their profile to make as much money as possible for themselves. The NRL are essentially doing the same thing. They are using players to sell the competition to the public for monetary gain, so why can’t other companies do the same? It can be such a short career for these young men, so they should be able to maximise their earning potential while they’re in their prime years.

[@danielvermeer3363]

TPAs like Nike will let the athletes be known world wide and bring more intrest from abroad and from people that may have never heard of NRL.

[@sunilgopinath7136]

RL continues to act like a pub sport by limiting player's sponsorships. The Hayne Plane tried this with JH apparel and the NRL wanted to count this as part of the salary cap. Totally ridiculous. The players should be fully able to cash in. If they run a podcast/become an influencer and earn $millions, should the NRL police that??

[@bux5367]

Can you guys address the issues about international tournaments including the world cup team being reduce to 10 and some test matches and being sold out.

[@maxfish4770]

You can bat on about a draft until the cows come home, its not happening Playing each othet once isn't fair either lol

[@osmiumgus8025]

Reed’s point that TPAs don’t make a difference because Brisbane hasn’t won a title since 2006 is ridiculous. He is playing the panel for fools again and getting away with it again.

[@paulturner9542]

The salary cap should be abolished. Let clubs pay salaries they want to pay. It will also attract more sponsorship dollars to the game. Arguing about ‘third party deals’ seriously, for a so called billion dollar sport, we are such pissants with a fishbowl mentality.

[@maxfish4770]

Do you want it to turn into a money spending comp?

[@johnn7350]

Half the clubs would dissolve mate and the same teams would always win which would hurt viewership and ticket sales.

[@CatDarkin]

​@@johnn7350The last 4 years has been 1 team. The last 8 years has been 3 teams. It's the same teams winning anyway

[@johnn7350]

@@CatDarkin i absolutely see what you’re saying, I just feel it would exacerbate it worse. And I mean my team would benefit from no salary cap lol so I’m not saying it for fear for my club.

[@CatDarkin]

@@johnn7350 you're just regurgitating sound bites that the NRL media have fed you for years. The only thing the salary cap is achieving, is killing player/club loyalty & the slow death of the game as a whole

[@andrewlonge4494]

why doesn’t brent reed talk about the roosters third party deals? they have more than any other club.

[@BonnieLentz-t4b]

So you're saying brooky will be sold from council to developers? For future units? Dont think the fans would approve?

[@simonjames772]

what are some modern examples of third party deals

[@Reznor440]

A lot of top players at clubs get 3rd party deals with car dealerships and get free cars

[@simonjames772]

@@MidCrap69 do you know any figures? is it 100k+ 1m+?

[@MidCrap69]

@@simonjames772 I believe they were offered the choice of either a flat rate of an additional $20k or they had the option to receive ‘residual’ benefits amounting to about 2% of the gross annual profit of hot cinnamon donuts and macadamia muffins respectively, kind of like how Tom Hank’s got residual payment from the box office sales of Forest Gump instead of a one lump payment. Unfortunately for Luai and Crichton, it was widely reported that both hot cinnamon donuts and macadamia muffins had an elite year of net profit, up about 8.5% from the previous year, so they would have made considerable gains financially if only the panthers stuck to their gentleman’s agreement

[@hoodoussadlay]

Most are worth around 600-750K

[@Legalpigeon]

​@@hoodoussadlay This is bogus

[@osmiumgus8025]

Cheesus, the NRL is a billion dollar corporation but the only answer you guys have for upgrading grounds is to put your hand out for government funding as though you are still a community group that operates exclusively on the efforts of volunteers. I am so fed up with hearing businesses complain about “too much regulation” but still want the government to fix everything and to fund everything. Anyone in favour of “smaller government” cannot possibly be in favour of endlessly throwing taxpayer funds at upgrading facilities for “professional” footy clubs that pay million dollar plus salaries to players and coaches. It’s ridiculous.

[@leszek4109]

Lasted 15 min. Bored me to tears...