Quote ="number 6"but it isnt if he isnt out all season now is it? even if he is able to play towards the end of the season the rfl are still considering allowing it. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... le-2409274 if he is being paid a wage (regardless if he is out for the season) he counts on the cap! tough but thats sport!'" I agree with your first point. If he is exempt from the cap, he shouldn’t be allowed to play (unless of course other players leave an Cas can therefore bring him in under the cap). He shouldn’t be allowed to play if it takes Cas over the cap at the end of the season. Your second point is flawed. There are many people at Cas, and every club, who are paid a wage but don’t count on the salary cap.

Quote ="number 6"but it isnt if he isnt out all season now is it? even if he is able to play towards the end of the season the rfl are still considering allowing it. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/r ... le-2409274 if he is being paid a wage (regardless if he is out for the season) he counts on the cap! tough but thats sport!'" I agree with your first point. If he is exempt from the cap, he shouldn’t be allowed to play (unless of course other players leave an Cas can therefore bring him in under the cap). He shouldn’t be allowed to play if it takes Cas over the cap at the end of the season. Your second point is flawed. There are many people at Cas, and every club, who are paid a wage but don’t count on the salary cap.

Wouldn’t everyone be better just waiting to see what the RFL say about it rather than getting their knickers in a twist?

Luke Davico got injured in pre season for us and we de-registered him. No issue with it

Can a de-registered player be signed by another club? As in without a fee?

In theory yes obviously the player is in agreement with the club before been de-registered but he could just go sign for someone else if he chooses

Don’t think so.
Dergistration isn’t the same as terminating his contract.
KR did it with Dobson and Mason didn’t they to avoid going over the quota when Dobson was injured?

but it's wrong. the salary cap is there for a reason. should a club, any club, lose a player on,say,100k a year be allowed to de register him in order to sign another? the player still has to be paid. it's cheating the cap

Because he’s not going to play? A bit like when when the money that Leeds had already paid Segayaro was made exempt from the cap when he ran off?
The salary cap is there to make sure no club gains an on-field advantage. Clearly, as Gale won’t play Cas are unlikely to gain such an advantage. Unless we get dispensation for Gale and go and sign someone like Widdop, but I reckon that’s pretty unlikely.
I don’t know why everyone is worried about it though. Wigan, Warrington, Saints and Leeds are making use of the marquee rule so will be spending way more on player wages than Cas, even if Gale’s salary is exempt and is used to bring in another player for 2019.

Yes we did and he could have walked away in theory

This has happened numerous times by numerous clubs in the past, including Leeds in the last few years. Or is this just the recent anti-Cas sentiment that has crept in by fans of the "big clubs" on here over the last few years?

Just like there was a huge problem with Wells working for Sky but not McDermott, Carney and O'Connor when they worked/work for SL clubs...



Well - not in theory you deregister them as a player, not as an employee. They still get paid by the club and are under contract to the club, they just can't play until they get registered.

Or do you also think the players that don't get registered to the 23 man squad in Football are free to walk away from a contract too?

The 23 man squad in football is totally different

No they haven’t? What player has Leeds de-registered because he was injured so they could go sign another?

my opinion is no club should do it. including mine. the cap is the cap. player gets injured then tough.

The de-registering of a player only means that he can't play for the club. The player is still contracted to the club and the club still hold the registration.

come on its not like he couldn't earn a wage else where, makes me laugh when I here commentators say well they have a mortgage to pay when it comes to relegation battle well this is the same, life happens deal with it

https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... fl-confirm The Rugby Football League has confirmed it has discretion to grant salary cap relief to Castleford.

https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... fl-confirm The Rugby Football League has confirmed it has discretion to grant salary cap relief to Castleford.

We'll, now they can't complain about Wigan in 06

Anyhow, this is why you have a squad isn't it? I wonder if Powell is worried his other halfback options aren't up to it.

“ Hodgson rule” from Australia? Normally only applys in Australia if the player is injured on international duty. Else they could de-register him for the whole season in which case his salary would not count on the cap?

Well if Powell isn’t worried, he should be.
Jamie Ellis is injured and looks so unfit it’s untrue. He’s also bang average at best.
Ben Roberts will be in hibernation until the sun comes out in June.
Corey Aston hasn’t played in SL and didn’t stand out in a lower division.

He’s talking about Segayaro. The money Leeds paid him before he left was then wiped from the cap (and rightly so).

Cas Tigers could open a can of worms here if the RFL don't grant dispensation. We could go out and sign a player under the marquee rule or even register Gale as a marquee player - even though he is unlikely to play in 2019. As a club we have always been against this approach and that is why we are seeking a dispensation ruling on Gale. The RFL will act favorably to Cas Tigers because it as created one giant loop-hole already.

How is signing another player or using the marquee exemption 'opening a can of worms'?
That is literally what you are supposed to do



Giving you a dispensation would be more contentious because they'd be setting a precedent. Every time a club had a seriously injured player they'd be wanting the same treatment.

Gale seems to have been blighted by injuries ever since his hair transplant, who was the donor, Stevie Ward?

I agree with this. The framework is already there for Cas to do this.

If the RFL makes dispensation, then how long will it be before someone who is not performing very well gets "injured" to allow a desperate club to make a panic signing.

Surely in this case it would have to be backed-up by a medical assessment.