If the RFL hold all players contracts - why don’t they be the holding pot for paying them?
Rather than the RFL & SL give the TV or central funding money direct to the club’s, the RFL could pay the players there contracted wage.
CLUbs can then be responsible for winning bonus - or brown paper bags??

Could possibly solve the problem of players not getting paid their wages due to poor club administration and tax/vat avoidance.

Just a Friday night thought

Good idea, would also save all clubs money as the game would only need to pay one lot of wages to payroll staff. It would make policing the salary cap easy as well.
Sounds such a good idea that there must be a problem with it? Not being a financial person I would not know.

who pays a players wife the 100 grand a year she earns in the club shop though?

Who cares? It’s just the same as clandestine extra payments to players, I doubt that there are many as one party has only to fall out with the other then it all comes out.

I thought the SC was managed in real time now?

well there's one problem you've just mentioned brown paper bags and tax/vat avoidance in the same sentence

After the debacle that has been my club over the not to distant past (amongst others) and the damage it’s done to the sport I’ve wondered whether club owners could be made to pay a bond at the start of the season?

That could be withdrawn and used to pay players wages or returned with interest (dependant on community work) at the end of the season.

Rather than withholding central funding that leads to further issues/puts off investment.

Wasn't this loophole closed some time ago?

Do the RFL hold the contracts? The RFL will have oversight of the contracts for salary cap reporting, but the contracts are between the players and the club, not the players and the RFL.

And aside from anything else, why do we need the RFL to take on a function that multi million-pound businesses should be more than capable of doing?