Exodus
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Jordon Trainor has opted out of a wider training contract with the Crusaders and is heading back to the MLR was with Utahs Warriors for the 24/25 season but it would not suprise me if he ends up New England Free Jacks given whom the coach is
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@Daffy-Jaffy Shag & Foz love signing up Kiwi's to their team Zach Gallagher, Josh Dickson, Isaiah Mapusua, Blair Ryall, Aaron Smith, Tiaan Falcon, Aidan Morgan, Mark Telea etc.
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@Daffy-Jaffy Shag & Foz love signing up Kiwi's to their team Zach Gallagher, Josh Dickson, Isaiah Mapusua, Blair Ryall, Aaron Smith, Tiaan Falcon, Aidan Morgan, Mark Telea etc.
with ex-AB coaches like these, who needs enemies?
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Well worth a read.
Game is supposedly more interesting to younger players (ball in play etc.), pays more, and has an easier to understand pathway. According to the article, Super salaries have not grown since the early 2000s, while if you are in the top 30 contracted players for NRL you start at $140K AUD.
Why promising young rugby players are choosing league over the sport they grew up playing
One top sports agent says rugby league offers clearer pathways and far better pay.
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@gt12 That fact about Super Rugby salaries has to surely be taken with a grain of salt. As a general rule, since the Silverlake Deal, as a general rule, seems like players are sticking around a little longer than they had been.
Most of the players who head offshore, seem to be doing so for lifestyle reasons, rather than out and out financial reasons.
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Well worth a read.
Game is supposedly more interesting to younger players (ball in play etc.), pays more, and has an easier to understand pathway. According to the article, Super salaries have not grown since the early 2000s, while if you are in the top 30 contracted players for NRL you start at $140K AUD.
Why promising young rugby players are choosing league over the sport they grew up playing
One top sports agent says rugby league offers clearer pathways and far better pay.
NZ Herald writing a pro league/anti rugby article, damn, who would have thought it. TBF, I don't have premium so wont be reading the article so my response is more to your synopsis of it.
Is league more interesting to younger players? There's roughly the same amount of teenage rugby players as there are total league players in the country, and some of that total includes players in the national schools comp held over a week or two, of which that might be the only league they play that year.
Do we know how much Super players earn, I highly doubt there'd be many main squad (which is the equivalent of the top 30) super players earning under $140 (I don't think the AUD is relevant, it requires a movement to a new country/sport in most cases).
The guys who go who have a decent-ish profile get hyped by the media, but that overlooks the ones who stay, even ones who were league players when younger.
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Well worth a read.
Game is supposedly more interesting to younger players (ball in play etc.), pays more, and has an easier to understand pathway. According to the article, Super salaries have not grown since the early 2000s, while if you are in the top 30 contracted players for NRL you start at $140K AUD.
Why promising young rugby players are choosing league over the sport they grew up playing
One top sports agent says rugby league offers clearer pathways and far better pay.
NZ Herald writing a pro league/anti rugby article, damn, who would have thought it. TBF, I don't have premium so wont be reading the article so my response is more to your synopsis of it.
Is league more interesting to younger players? There's roughly the same amount of teenage rugby players as there are total league players in the country, and some of that total includes players in the national schools comp held over a week or two, of which that might be the only league they play that year.
Do we know how much Super players earn, I highly doubt there'd be many main squad (which is the equivalent of the top 30) super players earning under $140 (I don't think the AUD is relevant, it requires a movement to a new country/sport in most cases).
The guys who go who have a decent-ish profile get hyped by the media, but that overlooks the ones who stay, even ones who were league players when younger.
You can use tools to read it, you know...
I don't want to paste in too much, as it would be better to actually read the article, but on the payment, here is what it says:
“You have provincial unions who offer development contracts. These can be anywhere from $1 to probably about $2500. The very upper end is $5000. And they effectively have the provincial union providing some infrastructure and high performance for these young men.
At entry level, the NRL offers more than twice what Super Rugby players earn.
Super Rugby franchises must pay their contracted players a minimum of $75,000 per year
On the interest in the sport thing, I don't believe a word of it, I think it is all about getting their bag as soon as possible with the easiest potential to get it.
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The money will tell the story in the end.
NRL players are starting at 140k; a SR average would be about 135k.
ABs would be on a lot more than that; some a lot, lot more.The ABs will always be mega; but the professional union game in NZ will (is) slowly get hollowed out by pro league.
It already has been in Aus.
And the pro women already seem to be league/union blending.At last count there were 160 NZ born players in the NRL.
I can remember when there would have been virtually none in the Sydney comp.
Important to note; that is more than one teams worth of enzeders.Ball in play was at 56 minutes for the NRL last season, a record.
I noticed also note that refs had been instructed to aim for 2 second play the balls last season as well. Probably why they hit a record.
Which is more than Soccer (55 mins of 90).
Union is at about 37 mins.
NFL is only about 11 mins (of 60)Marky Mark was a bit freaked at his first Roosters training season, and he was a sevens player, who I thought were fit. But not good enough for league.
In the end tho, he went just fine, and made the national team.
I think a lot of young union players will have taken note of that.After the Perth Bears and the PNG Chiefs have been bedded into the comp, there will be only one place left for the NRL to go.
I can see that brand spanking new stadium in Chch literally sucking an NRL franchise right in. -
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if you are in the top 30 contracted players for NRL you start at $140K AUD.
I would suggest if you're in the top 35 SR players you're on more than that, so not quite the league win one might think.
Per club.
That's the base for a Top grade player, according to the article.
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