Is working. Anyone who thinks otherwise, well, they may still believe the moon is made of cheese and the earth is flat.

Dirty, nasty, horrible salary cap.

Its not working. Just look at Wigan for an example of that.

Agreed.

As a leeds fan, we better get used to the more of the same.

You can say its working when we beat the Aussies convincingly... That should be the aim.

That isn't the job of the cap, that is the job of the reduction in O/S players.

The Aussies have a salary cap. They are quite capable of beating us convincingly.

So what are you talking about?

How can the salary cap make us beat Australia? They beat us because they have the pick of a lot of quality athletes. In this country the people who play rugby league are usually sparrow legged geeks whilst all the athletes play football for the nags head.

Good point ...stupid post..

Ahh, but if we didn't have the salary cap they'd all be playing for rugby league teams, as we can easily outbid and out-glamour the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Man Utd/City.

Stands to reason, dunnit?

You are right, it is working......it has evened up the teams.....BUT you watch a game from pre super league and tell the quality of players has improved, tell me the games are better to watch. The semi was great today but how many poor games do we have with no skill and 'playing the percentages'.

It has worked but has also made another thing worse.

I think the attractive nature of the earlier games was also due in large part to the semi pro defences, which were more vulnerable to moving the ball.

The tries Huddersfield scored today were leagues ahead of the tries Wigoon scored against Brisbane in Australia.

As someone who has been spending the last month or so converting old matches from tape too digital media I can state categorically that the above is absolute rubbish.

The standard of play pre SL in uk was laughable. It was only when John Monie came to Wigan that you could see a side with structure in offence and defence reminiscent of todays teams. Even then you got the impression Wigan were going through the motions for most matches and winning comfortably.

Nope that's the job of the quota.

Communist cap FFS how are Saints supposed to dominate finals with this rule

Dont tell Brett Kenny

the old deflect the loss on the great SC trick hey

Saints balance sheet next year should be "interesting"

why?

indeed, one team spending more than they what the bring in via revenue beating another team spending more than they bring in via revunue relying on their owners to prop them up, that definately wouldnt have happened pre-SC

just think under an non SC world the top four would be made up of clubs with rich owners willing to invest heavily in the squad, like Mcmanus, Davy or Caddick, and certainly a club wouldnt be able to spend a fortune on overseas players to make it like Hull KR

and in a none SC world, two club like Wire and Hudds wouldnt be in the final because their tinpot chirmen couldnt afford it

except maybe Caddick, Davy, Moran, Mcmanus are pretty rich and spending a fair penny on their clubs, and maybe it isnt down to the SC but intelligent businessmen that has helped these clubs

No final appearances = Less cash

Does the club get cash for the Challenge Cup or is it just the players?

The club makes a killing off a Cup final appearance.

Looks like the bog wall won't be getting painted this season.