Quote ="Paul Thexton"So considering most clubs can't afford to spend anywhere close to the cap level why advocate scrapping it?'"
Directors of clubs should be the ones to decide how much their club can afford to spend on players (or anything else). Why do a few officials at Red Hall think they know better?
People complain, for example, that there aren't many, or any, clubs below Super League that are good enough to compete if promoted. What do they expect when Red Hall restricts them to spending next to nothing on players?
The Salary Cap regulations are taking away the incentive
- for young athletes to aspire to be RL players (as opposed to pursuing other sports),
- for financial backers to get involved with clubs below Super League (no automatic one-up, one-down promotion and relegation between the leagues doesn't help this one either) and
- for potential supporters of clubs below Super League as quality, ambition and opportunity could and should be better.