And the obvious reply - you're right Leeds is a terrible team!!!!

Tax avoidance, I don't see how.

More pertrinent, is the impact on current contracts that utilise this. If contracts have to add PAYE into them,, surely that will be applicable to th cap?

Avoidance - or evasion?

If it's evasion, then there will be twitchy bum time at a lot of SL clubs given how far back HMRC can go to recover underpaid PAYE and NIC.

Evasion is a tad strong for me. How can it be evasion? It was a loophole that has been taken advantage of, it was as if they have deliberately not paid tax, now that would be my definition of evasion.

I can't see this being unique to RL either, so I would imagine there are intreresting times ahead generally.

They = Catalans, I was bought up in an era when sports clubs were always referred to in the plural - don't know when all this Yankee nonsense started!!

Wigan may be one of the four not involved.
Under Whelan's ownership he would not allow the club to pay image rights or enter into Player Benifit Trusts.
I've heard that said many times at meetings when he was the owner and it was well known other clubs were operating these systems.