Lessons our game can learn from America

JERRY Guscott’s piece in last week’s issue highlighted the NFL’s salary cap as a reason for the league’s financial stability. It isn’t the only contributing factor. In addition the league benefits from:
■No relegation of teams at the bottom (ring-fence)
■ A competition structure designed to provide fixed number of games building to an end of season play-off system generating income (semi-final weekend and finals) that benefits all clubs equally.
■All performance development players not tied to any specific club with all such players entering s...

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