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    ARU Raising Salary Cap by $800k

    THE ARU is expected to increase the Super Rugby salary cap by $800,000 in a deal with the Rugby Union Players Association.

    It is understood the ARU has agreed to raise the cap from $4 million to $4.8m following concerns about the ability of Super Rugby teams to retain players.

    But the ARU's annual grant to the five Super Rugby franchises -- the Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Reds and Waratahs -- will remain the same at about $4m. The teams will have to come up with the additional $800,000 themselves.

    The salary cap, which will come into play next year, is part of the ARU's renegotiation of the collective bargaining agreement with the RUPA, which is expected to be finalised in the next few weeks.

    The ARU needed to be financially responsible in setting the cap limit, but find a way to help the teams stop their players from going to Europe and Japan.

    The cap will replace the contracting protocols that have governed player salaries in Australia since the game went professional in 1995.

    Under the protocols, teams tended not to pay any player more than $110,000 plus benefits and match payments, but they can now pay players whatever they like under the confines of the cap.

    Meanwhile, ARU chief executive John O'Neill has called for a new approach to managing referees following New Zealander Paddy O'Brien stepping down as the IRB referees manager.

    O'Neill said the IRB should break from tradition and consider appointing a non-referee as the new referees manager.

    "It's time to review the management function of referees," he said.

    "It would be well worthwhile going outside the norm and looking at whether former coaches, players and administrators might be well equipped to bring a new perspective to this unbelievably important area of the game."

    O'Brien, a former Test referee, stood down after seven years as referees manager to take a similar role with the rugby sevens, which will return to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

    While O'Brien was looking for a fresh challenge, there was widespread discontent with the officiating at the World Cup in New Zealand last year.

    New Zealander Bryce Lawrence, heavily criticised for his handling of the Wallabies' 11-9 win against the Springboks in the quarter-final, has been dropped for the Tests in the June window.

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    Pity we still can only have 30 players...
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    I assume that also excludes ARU Wallaby top ups. Based on playing groups Brumbies and Force should be placed best, and will be interesting to see how the Waratahs go, and whether the Rebels are given any sort of dispensation, as Beale and O Connor should be taking a major whack out of their budget, or does this mean that they have substatntial third party deals in the background which will remain and make this all a bit of a to do about nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazzmania View Post
    and whether the Rebels are given any sort of dispensation
    The Rebels' foreigners currently count for a maximum of $147 000 under the salary cap regardless of how much they're paying them and they're allowed 10.

    And yeah Wallabies top ups don't count - which is why they're so highly valued now as they've reduced the number of players that get them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beige View Post
    The Rebels' foreigners currently count for a maximum of $147 000 under the salary cap regardless of how much they're paying them and they're allowed 10.

    And yeah Wallabies top ups don't count - which is why they're so highly valued now as they've reduced the number of players that get them.
    the Rebels only have 8 foreigners this year then 6 next year and 2 less ever year untill they reach 2 the same as all other clubs.

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    Thanks for the info, I am still not sure if this salary cap is going to help teams like the Brumbies and us or not as it appears that as the Reds and Waratahs still have the most wallabies they will be able to have a lot more scope to attract the Fringe players, where we will be using ours up for the better non wallably players. Also with only two national academies in Brisbane and Sydney who will get first pick on the better players, this is so unfair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tazzmania View Post
    Thanks for the info, I am still not sure if this salary cap is going to help teams like the Brumbies and us or not as it appears that as the Reds and Waratahs still have the most wallabies they will be able to have a lot more scope to attract the Fringe players, where we will be using ours up for the better non wallably players. Also with only two national academies in Brisbane and Sydney who will get first pick on the better players, this is so unfair.
    Yes and no because the ARU is reducing the number of top up contracts it will offer to Wallabies I think it will be 26 (correct me if I’m wrong) the fringe wallabies players will only receive payment from their club and when they actually play for the Wallabies much like Aus cricket. So this should force out a few of the fringe guys to other clubs so they can make a bit more money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jono View Post
    Dean mumm would have been the first to go from
    The wallabies, but that fend would have secured his spot for another 2 years
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    Not to mention Daddio

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    “Everyone knows whether it’s rugby, politics or whatever, front-rowers should rule the world, so to have a hooker at the helm makes sense,” Nathan Charles Western Force & Wallabies Hooker.

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    Good news for the Force. We appear to be in good financial shape and that bodes well. Not sure how some of the other sides will fare trying to drum up 800k.

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    Shep must be sh1tting himself. A Max of $110 per year, living in Perth if difficult. He's not on the park which would mean no match payments and no top ups, 3Ps are going to be paying anyone who is sitting in the grandstands.

    Also is it only the ARU teams thathave the salary cap next year ? Or us the kiwi and African teams also following suit.
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    There is no requirement for the Kiwi or African teams to follow what we do, as a matter of fact, I'm glad about that, since the kiwi contracting system seems particularly farcical, and the Saffers look as though they don't have any rules at all.......which actually seems to work better than the NZ one.

    I'm not sure whether the 30 man squad thing is even mandated.....does anybody have the answer to that?

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    Yeah it's mandated - 30 full squad members and 5 back-ups. The ARU has said they're keeping an eye on how it goes this year in case they need to increase it again next year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beige View Post
    Yeah it's mandated - 30 full squad members and 5 back-ups. The ARU has said they're keeping an eye on how it goes this year in case they need to increase it again next year.
    I wondered whether my question would be misinterpreted. Is it mandated by ARU or SANZAR?

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