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| | Sports Factor - 4/10/2002: Football in the Age of Instability |
 | | We take a squiz now at the National Rugby League season, and where it’s up to after all the upheavals and legal battles of the recent past, from super-league to club amalgamations, expulsions and reinstatements. |
 | | Braham Dabscheck: Well what’s happening is that because the salary cap is low, and Rugby League, as distinct from Australian Football, Rugby League has a natural competitor in sport called Rugby Union, in addition to players being able to go and play overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom. |
 | | So because the salary cap is, in my view, artificially low, they’re losing players to other competitions and that is in fact a disservice to the League as well as the players who play in it. |
| www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s689981.htm (441 words) |
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