Poor Poor Jarryd

[Guest]

Correct me if i am wrong but aren't they getting paid half ( $6000 ) up front, and the other half goes toward their super ?

If so they are getting paid 12k which isn't too bad.

... and considering that some of these guys aren't too bright, the super fund sounds like a great idea.

[Guest]

They are also better educated and contribute more to the economy. So you can't compare the two.

People are not paid on their level of education or what they contribute to the economy. Their pay is based on how much money they can make their employer and how many people are in the market with similar skills.

Based on this - yes you can compare the two.

[Guest]

these m odern day players are a joke. Remember, the best years this game ever had was when the teams were made up of plumbers, bricklayers, builders and cellermen.

[Hawkeye]

You don't think $500k per season. And then $6000 per rep match after that, is being paid well?

If he plays the entire origin series. And the Australian games in 2010. He could earn close to $42K ON TOP OF his $500K

I'm surprised he hasn't petitioned for being paid overtime when the games go into extra time ??

[roostwin]

I think i read somewhere the players signed an EBA.
When the EBA comes up for renewal ask for more money, simple.

[Kingbilly]

Your all misses the point that he gets $500K because he is a rep or rep standard player.
That has driven up his normal salary.
How much more of the fans money does this prick want.

The fact he wants $s to play for his country speaks volumes about what is really wrong with the game of rugby league.

Might be a good player, but he is still bred out of Souffs scum and it shows

[Guest]

People are not paid on their level of education or what they contribute to the economy. Their pay is based on how much money they can make their employer and how many people are in the market with similar skills.

Based on this - yes you can compare the two.

So because a brain surgeon doesnt make money for the government he should be paid 0, i get it now

[Guest]

So because a brain surgeon doesnt make money for the government he should be paid 0, i get it now

What about people that work for the trains???

[Johnny Tobin]

Eels star Jarryd Hayne says NRL does not do enough to look after its stars
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1225862794921

HE'S regarded by many as the face of rugby league, but Eels superstar Jarryd Hayne has warned his legion of fans he might not finish his career in the NRL.
In a startling attack on the game's administrators, Hayne accused the NRL of not caring about its star

players and said he could not rule out following the path of league deserters Sonny Bill Williams and Karmichael Hunt when his contract expires in 2014.

"I am only 22. Who knows what will happen after my contract," Hayne said yesterday.

"I could be earning a couple of million somewhere else."

Hayne claimed NRL boss David Gallop failed to listen to him when the footballer warned him of the threat of rival codes.

"The sad thing is that [the NRL] was warned but nothing was done," Hayne said. "They just said 'If you're going to go, then you're going to go, not much can be done.' That was their reaction."


He then added, sarcastically: "They really care about their players heaps."

The comments will surely hurt the NRL, which has all but installed the Parramatta fullback as its No. 1 poster boy. But Hayne refused to hold back on his feelings about the way players have been treated.

"How many more people do we need to lose until something is done?" he said.

"It is just a sad thing, rugby league is such a great game and there are so many passionate players and we are losing them to AFL. We have already lost Mark Gasnier and Sonny Bill Williams [to rugby]. We've already lost these superstars and they're doing nothing about it"

With Broncos centre Israel Folau poised to defect to rugby union, Hayne claimed more could be done to retain the game's best players.

He considered offers from rival codes before he signed a new three- deal with the Eels earlier this year reportedly worth $500,000 a season.

As Hayne made his position known in Melbourne yesterday, his Kangaroos teammates were on the verge of revolt, claiming their match payments for the Anzac Test were embarrassing.

Each player will receive $6000 for taking part in the battle with New Zealand at AMMI Park tomorrow night. "The players do not have a voice," Hayne said.

"We are just given a schedule and told what to do. I hope something can be done. I have family coming down and they have to pay for their tickets.

"We only get four free tickets and have to pay for the rest. The payments aren't big at all so you think they could compensate us elsewhere. There are certainly a couple of issues there."

ARL boss Geoff Carr said the representative payments would be reviewed when the next collective bargaining agreement is struck.

"They were agreed to in the last collective bargaining agreement," Carr said.

You can bag him and all the others - then watch them leaving to go to another game.

The game we love has become a joke. It is no more than a breeding ground for other comps.

[Guest]

Using this logic one could say he plays 3 internationals a year for $18000 or on your "breakdown" earning $346 per week for playing for Australia..

You can't have it both ways...

It is not ridiculous at all to work out how much they get paid per game..

No, because he isn't with the Australian squad/team for 52 weeks in the year. Nor is he contracted with them. He is there for one week in May, and then 1 month in October

[Guest]

i was watching a panasonic cup match this morning, and when a player scored a little bio flashed on the screen - name, how long they've been at the club, any previous clubs and what their occupation was. Hughie was an electrician, someone else a sales advisor. Hayne and co should learn a thing or two from them.


And now a quote from Dick Dunn (From Where the Sun Rises, p118)

"At the end of the season we used to have a picnic day at the Showground at which they would give each player his season's money. The first time I went to one of those days...they called me up to get my money and I said: 'What's this?' and they told me it was what I had earned for the season. 'You get paid for playing football?' I said. 'Christ! That'll do me.'

[Guest]

I love tthe Dick Dunn quote. IMO more players should have that attitude today.

[Guest]

You can bag him and all the others - then watch them leaving to go to another game.

The game we love has become a joke. It is no more than a breeding ground for other comps.

Let them go. The gam e was at its best when it wasnt made up of these "atheletes".