didn't wigan break the salary cap that year signing stuart fielden but I think they took the points off them the year after.

I think you are right.

Exactly that...wasn't that when Wigan broke the salary cap to stay up as well?

Edit: just seen that point made by Mopsey...not like me to be so slow

I don't think this is even a thing. Cas ground is not sub standard enough to be kicked out of the league. It's just someone starting a rumour.

I'd even support Cas in defending this at our expense.

Likewise. We need to take our medicine and move on. Go get our ducks in a row, get back up and make sure we are never in this position again.

What's the prospect of Wakey getting it SL status if both Cas n feath manage to remain in SL
Don't think 3 clubs all from the same district would be looked at favourable

There is no 'favourably'. If we all get the points, we are all in. We lose the value in catchment no matter what league we are in.

No different to Leigh and Wigan. They get the crowds so no one is worried.

Apologies as it strays away from the thread slightly but I was only thinking yesterday just how well we'd go if we didn't have 800 clubs in the WF catchment area.

Wakefield
Castleford
Featherstone
Dewsbury
Batley

Surely we'd be pushing 10k gates.

Anyway back to the rumours. Jermaine McGillvary announced as departing the Giants at the end of the year.

Get him in on a one year deal over the Fat... sorry Flying Pig.

Anybody any idea what the Cas and Fev IMG rating score is currently, are they above Wakey,below or same.

Although Dewsbury and Batley are in the Kirklees area,they do have WF postcodes, do they then come under the Wakefield catchment area with regards IMG

It's defined by local authority district.
So Kirless is separate.

Quick question. How many overseas players are we allowed in the Championship?

It's unlimited.

Really?
I was going to ask on one of the other forums as I can't find any details anywhere apart from super league.
But unlimited seems a big jump from where we were

In his 1 hour podcast on the subject Cas CEO Mark Gratton said he was confident Cas would be 8th or 9th in the IMG ratings. This was before relegation. I'm not sure whether I believe him but if it's true who are the 3 or 4 below us and why are they below us.

Yep. That's how Fev managed to get Caleb Aekins, for instance...by all accounts Leigh wanted to keep him to go into SL but they already had their 7 overseas players.

I don't know why that's the rule, but it's been the case in Championship for a few years.

Ah, thank you PT

Yep unlimited, I think at one point last year Leigh had 12 overseas (if you include Lam)


Should be at least the same rule if not lower as it's the ideal place to blood young British talent without them being dropped in the deep-end of SL

We will be alright, we are in a unique position where over the 3. Year IMG scoring 2SL and 1 championship, if successful in championship and keep everything else going and improving it won’t do us any harm whatsoever.

Up the Trin

Think you can also spend what ya want 9n player recruitment wages.anyone know for sure,

Rugby League Live reporting Atoni & Lyne have been offered out to other clubs, so presumably they are not in the clubs plans next year. If so i hope the announcements are made prior to Friday. I think someone like Reece who has played well over 200 games for us deserves a decent send off from us.

The salary cap is the same in the championship as it is in super league. It's just the overseas quota which is different, for reasons best known to the RFL.

Because it's a three year thing I reckon Leigh would join us and Salford below Cas.

Well York would be asked to pay compensation a la Croft and Shaw last year