As I said earlier in the thread, I have my doubts about how much more sustainable the new model will be, but guess there's only one way to find out.
comes down to the ability to monitor and prevent the backdoor payments...?
Any person that thinks the caps and audits are going to work........ I think are extremely naive.
There was a story a little while back of a goal keeper in Manawatu counting out cash in hand to players before going onto the field before games. I've seen it Mangere United where Mickey Byrne was passing out cash to guys before KO and not a just a couple of crisp fresh notes....
There seems to be a rumoured $250 a week per player cap doing the rounds right now.
Wouldn't that be a quasi-legitimization of (admittedly quite low) player payments?
Or would there be some convoluted way of classifying $250 p/w as a reimbursement?