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as i see this thread moses, it started out about a former perth spirit player now performing on the tv show gladiators and decended into a slanging match about who got what grant for the ARC. it is barely a secret that certain nsw clubs were unhappy about losing players from the shute shield and asked for ARU compensation. from my limited education i can work out from the figures posted in this thread that nswru received $11.5mil, spent $6mil on development programmes, $300k on the ARC and $5mil on player payments. approximately $200k leftover. now factor in the fact that most if not all shute shield clubs have clubrooms filled with poker machines to also help fund the clubs that asked for compensation and perpetual nswru loss making and you can see why we take the view of nsw ineptitude. it is also convenient for you to say that melbourne lost more money than anyone else. well duh, the player relocation costs were always going to be substantial.