NRL moves to lock down superstars

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KARMICHAEL Hunt looms as an early test case for a salary cap rule change that gives NRL chief executive Dave Smith the power to selectively offer central contracts to star players.

South east Queensland's NRL clubs are content with a seismic change to player retention in rugby league that gives Smith discretion to recruit and retain players for what he sees as the good of the game.

Out-of-contract Suns AFL player Hunt, the former Broncos and Australian league international, will come immediately under the spotlight.

The NRL want to avoid losing talent such as Karmichael Hunt to rival codes. Source: News Corp Australia

Smith will be able to step in to prevent elite players such as Hunt, Israel Folau and Sonny Bill Williams from playing other codes as happened under salary cap rules before payments increased with the NRL's $1.025 billion television tight deal.

Once a player is centrally contracted by the NRL, the 16 clubs would be free to negotiate further with the player to recruit him for their team by offering additional payments.

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Hunt, who would be 28 next season, is yet to play a game in his third season with the Suns, having been set for a call-up in Round 5 before suffering a staph infection.

Gold Coast indicated their interest to interview Hunt about an NRL return earlier this year.

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Gold Coast Titans chief executive Graham Annesley said "any NRL club'' would want Hunt in their team, but felt even with Smith's contrbution an NRL would struggle to offer Hunt what he can command in the AFL.

When asked if a central contract for Hunt would see the Broncos want to negotiate with him, chief executive Paul White said last night: "I am not going to speak on specific players, Karmichael or anyone else.

"But for those challenging recruitment targets you may want to have in your game, I do see the game now being nimble enough to able to fight for what we have and win back what we had.

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"If the discretionary rules were set up (in previous years), perhaps when Karimichael, Israel Folau, Wendell Sailor and Lote Tuqiri were up for grabs, the game would have been able to stand with the Broncos.''

Smith has little knowledge of rugby league, but will be able to be advised from within NRL staffers on talent matters and the discretion is likely to be applied sparingly.

Clubs will have an allowance for long-serving players, avoiding a repeat of Glenn Stewart quitting Manly. Source: News Corp Australia

In other developments from the NRL's salary cap review:

Clubs can put long serving players into careers with those clubs as they approach the end of their playing days;

The veteran player allowance will be increased by up to 50 per cent. The allowance will now apply to players serving six years with one club and was previously eight years. The allowance will be on a sliding scale with a maximum $250,000 per club in 2015 and $300,000 in 2016.

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The allowances can be claimed for many or few players who qualify, according to the club's salary cap needs.

"Some will consider it's not enough, but the veteran allowance is an extra $4 million a year in player payments across all clubs, so it's a fair amount of money,'' Titans chief executive Graham Annesley said.

The Indigenous All Stars game will return to the NRL calendar next year. Source: News Limited

The NRL will make clubs more responsible for identifying and assessing players who may have suffered a concussion injury.

Players must to be taken from the field as soon as they exhibit any of the signs of concussion, NRL head of sport Todd Greenberg said.

The 2015 pre-season will start with the Auckland Nines, but a February 14 date at Suncorp Stadium has been set for the revival of Indigenous All Stars game, which was omitted from this year's schedule.

The NRL is negotiating with Tourism and Events Queensland for the game to be staged for a second time in Brisbane.

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