It's time some of rugby league's highest profile players were brought in tight for a fireside chat about the reality of the sport they play.
Amid the hysteria of Mark Gasnier's departure from the NRL, there are the predictable bleatings from rugby league players claiming they are not being paid what they are worth.
That players in other sports command much bigger salaries and NRL stars deserve a better cut of the pie.
Let's get real here.
The crux of the matter is rugby league is a minor sport in the scheme of things.
Great game that it is, away from Australia's eastern seaboard, the north of England, pockets of New Zealand and a few Pacific Island nations, no-one cares too much for the 13-a-side game.
That is no slight on rugby league, just a sporting fact.
That's why NRL player payments are on par with their AFL counterparts - both sports lack broad appeal and are a harder sell, globally, as a result.
For Melbourne and Australian skipper Cameron Smith to state: "We've got one of the best competitions in the world but we just can't compete with other codes money-wise…it's wrong" shows just how deluded and ignorant of the situation some players are.
Which codes is he talking about.
Rugby? Cricket? Football? Basketball?
Football and basketball are true international sports, rugby is played in more than 100 countries and cricket, while low profile in comparison, is backed by the millions of rupee pouring into the game from India.
To compare rugby league to any of these sports is laughable.
The NRL doesn't generate enough money to sustain a 16-team competition with open slather on salaries.
It's why the cap was brought in - to save clubs from themselves.
Now the players want a big cut to halt the so-called player drain.
How much more?
Gasnier is reportedly receiving $1m a year to play union with Stade Francais.
You would have to double his Dragons contract to come anywhere near it.
Where is that sort of money going to come from for one player?
Funny thing is rugby league in Australia expended so much energy worrying about the exodus to the UK Super League that they ignored the wolf at the door in the shape of cashed-up European rugby clubs.
Now the wolf has been let in and, after raiding rugby union's best for nigh on 90 years, rugby league is now crying rape.
Gasnier provided some sanity to the madness when he said rugby league wouldn't miss him and that the game was strong and would live on.
It's survived 100 years and will be around another century unless those with vested interests cannibalise it.