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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 392816" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>No legal problems at all. Maybe in Europe with your European Court, but their shonky rulings like Kolpak and Bosman do no apply in this country.</p><p></p><p>The players always have a choice; they can turn down the Super Rugby contract and elect to see out the remaining term of their ITM Cup contract (or buy out of it) then head overseas if they wish.</p><p></p><p>Same applies if they take up a Super Rugby contract, then later in their career, get selected for the All Blacks. The prerequisite before setting foot on the field in their first test is a signature on a new four-year contract. </p><p></p><p>The idea is not keep them here if they don't want to stay; its to make whoever offers them a contract also pay the NZRU for the money they have spent on developing that player to that point.</p><p></p><p>The NZRU has just posted a large loss, and an appreciable part of that loss was the cost of running the ITM Cup. Unlike Europe and the UK, in New Zealand, we don't have the multi-billion dollar corporations that can underwrite a 14 team professional competition, so the NZRU pays for most of it. They created the NPC, which is the stage on which the whole world sees these players perform. They pour resources (money) into these players, who should acquire a value commensurate with the money the NZRU put in. If that player decides to play elsewhere, the NZRU should be entitled to claw some of its investment back. </p><p></p><p>This is no different to what the Aviva Premiership Clubs do with the RFU; they get a very big kickback from the RFU for the use of their players. Some Premiership clubs would not survive financially without the money they get from the RFU - its often the difference between them only being in the crap financially, or having the receiver on the doorstep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 392816, member: 20605"] No legal problems at all. Maybe in Europe with your European Court, but their shonky rulings like Kolpak and Bosman do no apply in this country. The players always have a choice; they can turn down the Super Rugby contract and elect to see out the remaining term of their ITM Cup contract (or buy out of it) then head overseas if they wish. Same applies if they take up a Super Rugby contract, then later in their career, get selected for the All Blacks. The prerequisite before setting foot on the field in their first test is a signature on a new four-year contract. The idea is not keep them here if they don't want to stay; its to make whoever offers them a contract also pay the NZRU for the money they have spent on developing that player to that point. The NZRU has just posted a large loss, and an appreciable part of that loss was the cost of running the ITM Cup. Unlike Europe and the UK, in New Zealand, we don't have the multi-billion dollar corporations that can underwrite a 14 team professional competition, so the NZRU pays for most of it. They created the NPC, which is the stage on which the whole world sees these players perform. They pour resources (money) into these players, who should acquire a value commensurate with the money the NZRU put in. If that player decides to play elsewhere, the NZRU should be entitled to claw some of its investment back. This is no different to what the Aviva Premiership Clubs do with the RFU; they get a very big kickback from the RFU for the use of their players. Some Premiership clubs would not survive financially without the money they get from the RFU - its often the difference between them only being in the crap financially, or having the receiver on the doorstep. [/QUOTE]
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