Re: Aussie Rules TV rights confirmed - massive impact on SL? : Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:58 pm
The ever increasing NRL salary cap will have an impact on SL IMO. In the fact some more of our best players will be tempted to go down under. But the exodus won't be as great as some would predict, purely because we don't that many players good enough to cut it in the NRL. Even so it would still have a detrimental effect on SL, because we'd lose some of our best players.Like others have mentioned above. The biggest suffers of this could be the southern hemisphere RU clubs. For the past few years a number of top flight RU players have flirted with the idea of joining NRL clubs, and with the increased salary cap, plus the addition of two more NRL teams. We may see it become a truly attractive proposition to go from RU to RL in the southern hemisphere.