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[RufusRex]

yeah ... a club can put on up to six players on supplementary (Development) deals.
There is an 80k salary for supplementary deals plus $3k per game match payment. There is a total cap there of 650k for the six players plus match fees.

 

[Morgan]

yeah ... a club can put on up to six players on supplementary (Development) deals.
There is an 80k salary for supplementary deals plus $3k per game match payment. There is a total cap there of 650k for the six players plus match fees.

i.e. very good for a 19~20 year-old not quite ready for first grade yet.

But it'd still be good to get Flanno's deadwood, highlighted by we all know who, off the books.

 

[Mailroomsgi]

Feels like there should be more than 6 supplementary spots

Should be like double that especially if we want to add more teams and develop more players all across the NRL

 

[GCRV]

Feels like there should be more than 6 supplementary spots

Should be like double that especially if we want to add more teams and develop more players all across the NRL

Or put more money into the reserve grade competition. Because 12 development players + whoever is in the top 30 but not playing first grade = a pro reserve grade team.

 

[TheRev]

its tricky though cause if you have 12 dev spots per team, thats 6 more gun juniors the rorters and dogs etc can hog.. granted those kids still need to see a pathway into 1st grade eventually, or they will still want out.

But yeah it is tough with just 6 cause there are a lot of good kids who end up on T&T only.. and we cant fit the best of each position in the 6 either.. be nice to have a bit more coverage in there.

 

[RufusRex]

36 players is 2 full professional teams
Then you have train/trial lower tier deals

 

[Eric]

The best thing to do, or best way to handle the situation, is to have minimal deadwood in the top 30. There's always going to be 1 maybe 2 who doesn't work out but next year we'll have Kyle, Gutho, Kerr without even going into players who have underpermed for a while like Suli.

It's too many. Thanks to Flanno for that. Was always going to take Dan Anderson a couple of seasons to clear the roster of deadwood.

 

[Morgan]

The best thing to do, or best way to handle the situation, is to have minimal deadwood in the top 30. There's always going to be 1 maybe 2 who doesn't work out but next year we'll have Kyle, Gutho, Kerr without even going into players who have underpermed for a while like Suli.

It's too many. Thanks to Flanno for that. Was always going to take Dan Anderson a couple of seasons to clear the roster of deadwood.

Gutho is a much better backup fullback than Atko

LKT and Hodges are much better baxkup 5/8s.

Reed is a much better backup halfback.

Atko is the epitome of deadwood.

 

[RandomDragon]

In the past we guaranteed players nrl deals 3-4 years out, with ando now here I don’t think we will be doing that anymore. Players like Burton/papualli etc should have a year of full time T&T (like this year) to assess them before moving into either a dev deal or a top 30 deal. I mean it was that bad at one stage we had mmolo on a dev deal… FMD