all on dodgy permits

I think the salery cap should be at least-
In SL £2.500.000 or 50% of income, whichever is lowest
Champ - £800.000 or 50% of income, whichever is lowest
Champ 1 - £500.000 or 50 % of income, whichever is lowest.

Turn RL back into a truley pro sport again, and shorten the gap, so if Pro and rel are ever re instated, the jump isnt as harsh, as its the cap what makes any team going up struggle, in all leagues.

Someone asked on another thread they can't believe the clubs voted the Salary Cap in, I can quite easily.

Out of over 20 clubs, max of 5 have any hope of ever getting into SL and they have slim chances for 2012.So that is why the rest voted for the SC levels,no ambition or dreams,so why bankrupt your club, and you can't really blame them.

It typifies our country everything is geared towards the lowest denominator and excellence is seen as a dirty word.The irony is the elite competition,Super League want an even bigger SC and most of the clubs in there are already in mega debt.

Just because there is a higher salary cap doesn't mean a club have to spend up to it. They are running a business so should run it accordingly, if they bankrupt themselves then that is the fault of the people running the club. After all no one is forcing them to spend more than they can afford.

Forcing clubs to spend less generally means less quality on show, facilities deteriorate and the gap grows bigger between the Championship and SL. Oh, have I unwittingly hit on the reason for the RFL/SL willingness to put this proposal forward in the first place.

You will notice in my posts that I no longer refer to the RFL as a body. The RFL is run by the SL clubs to the disadvantage of two thirds of the member clubs. So RFLSL it is

Problem there is in Champ prob only Widnes could afford 800k and thats becuase of SO'C and I doubt ANY team in C1 could afford 500k inc Leigh!

Bit of a cheek asking for more money on the cap, you go down you pay the price.

If the cap doesnt fit......

Any news? do we catually have a value for the cap or will the RLF stuff us .

I blame the French.

See Bitter post on Skolars forum.

It aint really a 'bitter' post as it's by that nuiscence Quins fan

asking q's mainly!

Alan wrote: Can't see Bramley getting in this time - they wouldn't have enough time to prepare for it - in 2011 perhaps?



Having watched a lot of games involving the likes of Bramley and Warrington Wizards I believe that Miners or East would beat Bramley easily, the teams in that division cannot defend to save their lives and with a few notable exceptions are full of players who would struggle to get into a poor National Conference side.

Fail to see how asking if Skolars have any dispensations for overseas players in being a nuiscence.....simply asked a question on their board and along came rupert bore for a nibble. I only asked, as because they are in a development area I thought they might be able to have a few. Still, good news that the RFL look like they will let you stretch the cap next year. In all probability you will win every game and go back up straight anyway and to limit you to £150,000 would do nobody any favours.
HTH!

Skolars are classed as a development area (as is Harlequins/broncos/whatever the name is this week) and as no decision has been made as to Leighs application as of yet all is speculation.

Stop worrying we will sign who we want when we want

And stuff the rfl

Been told that the RFL will allow us to spend £200k plus any prize money winnings on players salarys, so if we win Champ 1 we can spend an extra £50k dont know what prize money is for National rail cup but if we win it thats a bit extra in the kitty.

still 200k isn't a lot is it?

Not when £180k of it goes on the fleet of coaches!

how does that work then, we sign the players hoping we win and if we don't we have broken the cap or we can only sign them when we have won (obviously if) the league in which case we don't need the extra money

Simple really if the players want a share of the money they have to win it

since when do coaching staff figure on the salary cap?

Maybe the fleet he refers to is the travel to away games, as people keep saying anything given to a player by the club/directors goes on the cap

The question is how much of the $400k cap did we actually use last year - $250k might not be that different...

We WILL of course win Championship 1, so if I interpret it correctly we would have 200 plus 50, not 150 plus 50..

Whoever said we could spend £400K last year?

It all depends/depended on a clubs income as to what they CAN spend £400K is suppose to be a MAX.

Mr Thomas did say that Mr Kelly had the same amount as Mr Shaw had the year before.