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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 807694" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>1. Do you know who pays rugby player wages in NZ? If not, I suggest you actually learn somethng about our structures before criticising what we do and how we do it.</p><p></p><p>2. If you work in Dave's Widget factory in Stoke on Trent, you will be getting the same wages for the same job if you were working for Dave's Widget factory in Bournemouth, or Newcastle, or Cheltenham, because Dave owns all those factories, and he's paying your wages. If you go work for Pierre's Widget factory in Marseilles, Pierre is paying you, not Dave, so he can pay you what he likes, but you won't be working for Dave any more.</p><p></p><p>3. The Salary Cap is NOT on individual in players, its an overall spending cap on clubs. It helps to ensure a more even competition for those who <strong>ULTIMATELY own the game in this country, the fans.</strong> It also prevents a few clubs from having Sugar Daddies who will buy up all the best players, turning the competition into a one-dimensional, predictable borefest, with the same teams winning year after year a la EPL. (Leicester winning this year is an aberration, they won't win it next year and it will be business as usual; ManC, ManU,.Arsenal or Chelsea will win, just like they have for the previous 20 years). </p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The players are free to play for whoever they wish and free to negotiate with who they want for better wages, but if they go overseas, they give up the right to be selected for the All Blacks. Its a privilege to play for your country, not a right. Its a privilege that has to be earned, and meeting the criteria set down by the selectors is part of earning it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 807694, member: 20605"] 1. Do you know who pays rugby player wages in NZ? If not, I suggest you actually learn somethng about our structures before criticising what we do and how we do it. 2. If you work in Dave's Widget factory in Stoke on Trent, you will be getting the same wages for the same job if you were working for Dave's Widget factory in Bournemouth, or Newcastle, or Cheltenham, because Dave owns all those factories, and he's paying your wages. If you go work for Pierre's Widget factory in Marseilles, Pierre is paying you, not Dave, so he can pay you what he likes, but you won't be working for Dave any more. 3. The Salary Cap is NOT on individual in players, its an overall spending cap on clubs. It helps to ensure a more even competition for those who [B]ULTIMATELY own the game in this country, the fans.[/B] It also prevents a few clubs from having Sugar Daddies who will buy up all the best players, turning the competition into a one-dimensional, predictable borefest, with the same teams winning year after year a la EPL. (Leicester winning this year is an aberration, they won't win it next year and it will be business as usual; ManC, ManU,.Arsenal or Chelsea will win, just like they have for the previous 20 years). The players are free to play for whoever they wish and free to negotiate with who they want for better wages, but if they go overseas, they give up the right to be selected for the All Blacks. Its a privilege to play for your country, not a right. Its a privilege that has to be earned, and meeting the criteria set down by the selectors is part of earning it. [/QUOTE]
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