Storms NRL salary cap for next year.? The article says the Storms salary cap could be reduced to $3.5m over the next few years. My response is that David Gallop and those idiots who support him are imbeciles. It seems that he and his supporters are hell bent on destroying the Storm. The Rugby and AFL people must be laughing their heads off and rubbing their hands with glee, can't he and the chiefs at all the other NRL clubs see that it's ultimately in everyone's interest for the Storm to be strong and viable, the NRL need a strong franchise in Melbourne. If the Storm fails so does the NRL, do they honestly think the NRL is going to attract top $ for television rights and corporate sponsorship for a two state competition? Already the NRL is under threat from the new AFL teams coming on line on the Gold Coast and Western Sydney. It is unavoidable that those 2 franchises are going to, as time goes by, erode some of the NRL's support in those areas, the NRL can't avoid that. The only defense is to expand the game into traditional AFL territory, which means doing everything in their power to ensure the Storm survives and thrives and expanding the comp into Perth and Adelaide. But what have those fools decided to do, they've decided to attempt to smash the Storm and instead of creating new clubs in Perth and Adelaide, earmarked the Central NSW coast as the next franchise, meaning that out of 17 clubs 12 will be within the borders of NSW!
That, is not a national competition and it is not expanding the game! If you want a team on the Central Coast, fine, I'm not against it in principal, but it should only be done by reloacating a struggling Sydney club to that region, Cronulla is an obvious possibility. If you want to expand the competition the obvious choices in order would have to be Perth, Adelaide, S.E. Qld and Central Qld.
That, is not a national competition and it is not expanding the game! If you want a team on the Central Coast, fine, I'm not against it in principal, but it should only be done by reloacating a struggling Sydney club to that region, Cronulla is an obvious possibility. If you want to expand the competition the obvious choices in order would have to be Perth, Adelaide, S.E. Qld and Central Qld.