Extended October 2016. 3 Year deal.


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Warrington Wolves has extended the contracts of Ryan Atkins, Matty Russell, Declan Patton and Benjamin Jullien. Atkins and Russell have agreed new deals until November 2019, Patton until November 2018 [/i

How about this. Charnley comes to us on 60K for the first year with a promise to increase that if more cap space becomes available. Warrington tell Matty Russell that he has no future at the club and to go find himself another club. Matty has 2 options, find another club or wait out his contract with Warrington which has 18 months to go. If reports be correct Matty is now going to Salford hence more cap space available when he comes off contract.

I guesss the marquee rule must be hard for some players to stomach as you’ll have a huge disparity in salary between most of the squad and then one or two players. Roberts must be on a fair whack as I believe Gold Coast we’re still able to offer him a huge deal, albeit not as first-choice half-back. Ill have to look back through the Aussie media articles at the time but I think I remember seeing stories about the titans offering him $1m AUD over a 3 year contract. If true (and if I’m not imagining it all) that means we are paying him a little bit more than that, a huge difference to most of the squad who will be well below 100k. Hopefully he’ll start to prove why he’s worth so much fairly soon, it’s clear the talent is there waiting to spark into life.

That should encourage them to become marquee players themselves by developing their core attributes, skills and value to a team. If they cannot reach the standard they can have no complaints.

....if a player is on the lower spectrum of worth....to have a full cap and compliment or marquee ruling.....means you have a greater chance of winning big cup final bonuses.

Even at the upper level. Brown is apparently on less money at Warrington but he has the opportunity to dwarf the Widnes contact with the bonuses.

Bonuses count on the salary cap. Prize money doesn't and that is not very much these days.

Correct. On duckies point though - the "bigger" clubs will be able to provide more than just a salary. Accommodation, cars, nutrition (free meals) etc.

So you could earn less at Warrington due to it being a big pond, but still be substantially better off for it.

I assume that "benefits in kind" would count on the salary cap otherwise it would be too easy to circumvent.