Super League salary cap still doing the job of constraining the ability of our players to earn their market value. Awesome.

It is impossible to know the 100% reasons why players choose to move to Union, we know he is not always on the start sheet for Saints even when fit.

What we do know, that the vast majority fail to make any strides in the 15 aside code.

I would say he is to "light" to be a Union player, he is very skillfull however and that might work it.

I would give him 24 months and he will be back at Cas or Wakefield etc...

More likely the Dragons.
The ones in Newport, not Perpignan.

Every player that has come back from union is a lesser Rugby League player.
Union seems to blunt their skill set

Grace? He's an automatic starter for us, there isn't anyone in the squad to even challenge for his position.

Certainly is, one of the first names on the team sheet. Good luck to the lad its a short career sometimes in sport, with the rubbish salary cap in League he has probably not far off doubled his contract salary in Union.

Fresh challenge for him as well to get noticed in Union to be good enough to play for Wales.

Well, put it this way, he has not played much this season and Saints are still top and no one is saying "we need grace back".

I like him, I think he is a great player, but I also think he is surplus at Saints at the moment, as has been proven.

He will be back signing for Cas within 24 months I reckon.

Totally agree with the first paragraph. I only pray that (somehow) IMG can help us grow this goddamn sport…

Salary cap strikes again.

I remember when the cap was introduced and we were told it would make the league more exciting because all the best players would be spread out between all the teams.

lol

We don't know the details, it could be that no amount of money would have kept him.

So tell me what should be the salary cap for a RL team .
It is currently about £1.5 million.

Tell us what you think it should go up to ?

It’s currently circa £2.1 million.
There should be no salary cap. Is there a salary cap in your industry?

So where will the money come from if there is no salary cap?

Currently The salary cap in the RU English premiership is £6 million.

In France RU sides spend north of 8 million .

It should be at least 3 million be we all know that can't happen because the image and quality of our game has been going downhill for over 10 years now. In reality to other rugby comps the existing 1.5 million is really part time equivalent.

He'll earn a fortune in French RU.
Wales will cap him, probably against the likes of Georgia or Japan.

However, once his French contract expires, he'll need to join a Welsh RU region in order to continue his international RU career.

Coleman at Saints and Moran at Warrington would love to pump more money in, but arent allowed.

Moran at Warrington seems to have wasted enough already, he should be pleased that there is a limit
The more they spend, the worse they get

What’s really scary is that in 2024 French Rugby Union will be heading to a salary cap of £14 million and they could spend an amount on one player equivalent to an entire Rugby League Squad or they could triple the contract salary of all the best Rugby League players to go over to Union and it still wouldn’t touch the sides of their Salary Cap.

Chump change when you’re worth £300 mill mate tbh.

Legend!

A percentage of your turnover with owners allowed to make "Donations" to the top line instead of it being a director/associated loan

Just like the football leagues 1 & 2 do.

If an owner wants to put money in, it cant be as a loan, has to be as a donation that sits in the profit & loss account