NRL clubs will immediately start offering players cap-free payouts in response to the Kieran Foran precedent, according to South Sydney general manager of football Shane Richardson. Team bosses are up in arms that Parramatta were able to give the New Zealand Test star a $150,000 exit payment without it counting against their cap.

"I have absolutely no doubt clubs will now use it as a precedent and try to do the same thing," Richardson told Set of Six at Hunter Stadium on Sunday. "I am in complete agreement with what I've read from [Canberra CEO] Donny Furner on the issue." League officials are in for a grilling over the issue at a CEOs conference this week. Some clubs also sympathise with the decision of an insurance company not to pay out on Anthony Watmough's Parramatta contract.

2. Happy Rugby League Day

Happy Birthday, rugby league. It was on August 29, in 1895 that 20 clubs voted to split from rugby union and form their own competition. Set of Six has always found it curious that a huge majority of fans in Australia – and many in England – are completely unaware of the anniversary. Rugby league has always been too busy living hand-to-mouth to properly celebrate its history. The game has unity in the face of personal misfortune, as shown by bodies such as Men of League and RL Cares, but remains divided in so many other ways. As if to symbolise this, the game's birthplace – the George Hotel in Huddersfield – remains boarded up awaiting new tenants.