NRLW 2026

You’d think they’d be able to pay them more if they had their games on stand alone days. Would mean more viewership
 
Macca89 said:
You’d think they’d be able to pay them more if they had their games on stand alone days. Would mean more viewership
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Yeah but unfortunately not until the next broadcast deal starts. PVL gave away the rights to all the women’s games for free so until the next deal starts they’re stuck with ****ty comp and salaries etc
 
Yeah I talked some **** about how put off I am by the comp atm (the ******** with the contracts, Shannon Mato getting a “compassionate release” to play for a club 30 mins down the road that happens to be one of the Big Two clubs… spare me)… but I was all the way back in after watching our girls on Thurs night. They play with so much fire & passion. They’re killing themselves out there and deserve better from NRL admin.
 
Sharks on top of the Broncos well into the second half.

If Broncos didn't have 2 individual trys from Upton, they wouldn't even be on the board.
 
Not exactly news but with all the players they’ve lost, Bronx are totally reliant on Tamika now, Jesse or no Jesse.

They’ll still beat up in bad teams but they’re not beating the Roosters
 
Hard on paper before the game.

After the game:

Back 5 metres: Knights 711 Sharks 573
Back row metres: Knights 331 Sharks 150

1042 metres to 723 from the smaller, fitter wide players

On the back of that advantage, our middles - comparatively unproductive in yardage besides Predebon - hit to hurt every time and neutralised their big boppers.

Historically the NRLW has been more about dominant power middles and a lot of teams have one great yardage back like Kelly or Pelite but they’ve honestly been fielding at least one and often two back five players who are not very good/very unproductive. We may be ahead of the curve in adapting to a more NRLM style.

Bodes very well that we took the big Johnston girls out of the game totally and the Broncos couldn’t do it. Hoping to see our girls rub Upton & Southwell’s noses into the dirt in a couple weeks. Metaphorically speaking.
 
Tamika is a QLDer, so I understood that, but I feel particularly bitter about Jess going; IDK if that's fair, but I do. Maybe if we'd gotten something in exchange, I wouldn't, but it really does feel like the Knights were ripped off. Again, I don't know if that's a fair assessment.
 
Seano said:
Tamika is a QLDer, so I understood that, but I feel particularly bitter about Jess going; IDK if that's fair, but I do. Maybe if we'd gotten something in exchange, I wouldn't, but it really does feel like the Knights were ripped off. Again, I don't know if that's a fair assessment.
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Fact is, there is no real effective salary cap in NRLW.
The teams that spend the most are the teams that win the titles.
Wests group decided to dip into their pockets and bought Tamika Upton, Millie Elliott, 5 or 6 Roosters, 5 or 6 Warriors and won a couple of premierships.

After that they had a rethink and hired a fulltime coach and staff and set about breeding our own quality players.

Problem is, other clubs just bought the cream of our squad from under us - Jess and her sister, Upton, Elliott, Butler, CJ, Evah McEwen.

Since very few players can make a living out of NRLW right now, you can't blame any of them for going for as much money as they can get. Tamika Upton would struggle to make as much as a fringe firstgrader in the men's game, and she is basically the first NRLW immortal.
 
Gale Broughton injured out for several weeks. The Warriors only have 17 fit players this week. That sucks for them. Hopefully they can still jag enough wins to keep them in it until all the players come back
 
Seano said:
Roosters not getting everything go their way in the early going in Canberra...good.
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When Canberra played us in a trial they looked as good as us when they had their full strength squad on the field in the second half. We had to send the big guns back out there to match them in fact.
Their first few games have been impressive,
 
OMG, so much for the Roosters not getting their way. What a joke. That said, I took the Roosters 1-12 because, as Billy points out, the Raiders have been good, so I hope they hang on.

But hard to beat that sort of officiating. The argument might be that it "was" a try (which I still think is a stretch), but how many other clubs get those calls?
 
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