"broke the spirit of the cap"

Does that mean, broke the cap?

Nice way of phrasing it mind, iirc they spent big to get themselves out of trouble.

10 points would be quite a big kick in the nuts. Might as well lose the other games, keep the team fresh and earn the place back in SL from the middle eight. Well that's next year sorted out then.

This is the proverbial can of worms.
Forget TP for a minute.
Let's assume the side payment scenario is correct,which it might not be.
One assumes that he wouldn't have been the only one and several would have been in the squad this year.
So the problem would exist without TP.
And I hope they have HMRC correctly sorted,m'lud,unless the player is responsible for his own tax.

Does anyone believe a word he says anymore though? I do agree though, I don't think he was registered hence why he wasn't given a chance during the injury/suspension crisis.

I think the "Can of Worms" is that the RFL probably realise that there would be a lot more clubs than Salford that would have questions to answer.

These kind of payments will be very common, the only issue is there probably hasn't been a case where the club haven't paid up so it hasn't been disputed in public as with Puletua v Koukash.

We all wondered why we had a player like TP sat in the stands for most of the early to middle part of last season, I guess this goes someway to explaining why.

I'll hold judgement until he releases the price of my reduced season ticket for next season.