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Parramatta CEO Burnie Gurr - who did not reference any particular club - has called on the NRL to make players’ salaries public.

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Gurr, who has been in the Eels job for five months now and is not short of ideas, told On The Couch With Sterlo, he would like to see rugby league follow US sporting codes like the NFL and NBA and list athletes’ pay packets in the public arena.

Not only would it provide the public with a greater understanding of where their money has been spent but would make for good fodder among the fans.

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Daly Cherry-Evans of the Sea Eagles looks on. Source: Getty Images

“I believe players’ salaries should be published,” Gurr declared.

“We’re no different really to a public company. Public companies publish the salaries of their senior executives and board members.

“I think it would add an element of theatre to the game, too.

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“Fans can debate — well, you’re paying your right centre X amount of money and he’s no good and I’m paying this guy X amount of money and he’s better, or whatever it is.

“It adds a bit of theatre to it. I don’t see a problem with it.”

Players like Mick Ennis on NRL360 last year have previously shot down the idea and Gurr understands the reluctance.

Still, he’s confident it would be accepted and become common practice.

“Initially, you’ve got to expect that people would want to protect their salary,” Gurr said.

“I don’t have an issue with that position.

“The players would obviously not want to do it but it’s well entrenched in professional sport overseas so I don’t think it has caused the NFL any problems to have their salaries published.”

Publishing the players’ salary isn’t the only change Gurr would like to see the NRL make.

The former Rooster, who played first grade games, said he’d like to see a revamp of the schedule which mirrors an NFL formula where the competition is split into conferences.

Under Gurr’s plan, each team would play twice within their conference before facing the remaining teams only once.

Parramatta CEO Bernie Gurr at the Eels Football Club offices. Source: News Corp Australia

“The big problem is the State of Origin players aren’t available for all their club games,” he said.

“We need to go from 24 games to 22 — 11 home, 11 away. Within those games, I think we should split into two conferences.

“We could play within your conference home and away, that’s 14 (games) and play the other eight teams in the other conference, that’s 22 games. It addresses the workload of the player as well.

“…It would be stand-alone weekends for Origin. At the moment it’s very difficult to get fans to grounds.

“Attendances are a problem in the game. One of the reasons in the middle year is the game goes a little dead at club level because the best players aren’t playing.”