In the lower leagues clubs cannot really afford to build squads. If a player stays for more than 2 years he is a long serving club man. There are obvious exceptions. But as a rule it a merry go round of players. The only difference is now that these players are contracted to another club and if injured they wont cost us a penny.

If a club unearths a promising young player they are cherry picked by SL clubs. Hill from Leigh and Walmsley from Batley to name two. Its not like we can keep hold of them, as after all whats the best we can offer them? Promotion to the SL isn't going to happen.

I'm baffled - the only thing that is of no suprise is the RL appear to have made an unholy mess of things. I assume, and sincerely hope, that if the players have signed 1-year deals then we have an option to bring them back after that. However, I confess to be mystified by the "rules", such as they are, and they certainly seem open to errm misinterpretation.

Mendieka in particular was a player the club seemed to have high hopes for, his potential appeared to be confirmed by a strong showing on boxing day so I hope it's just a case of a one year loan dressed up to satisfy/circumvent (depending on your views) the rules.

You can't blame Wire for doing it. If they can afford to why not?

It's probably against the spirit of the game, but not against the rules (whatever they are).

This notional salary cap value sounds very interesting though, I wonder who "makes up" those figures?

of the game , but have ripped a huge hole in the credibility of semi Pro RL

So lets not see any more criticism of W1g4n and their ' deffered ' contract payments , this is alongside that as an abomination

Well it didn't do Swinton much good today did it.

OK. Think most people have moved on. That was about 7 years ago.