If the salary cap hadn't come along, I'm pretty sure Whelan would have bought us a top side. Whether that would have been good for us in the long run or good for the game is a moot point.

But the salary cap did come along, and neither Whelan nor Maurice ever really adjusted to it.

I think the fact that we repeatedly broke it and still didn't have great signings shows that

Even before then, they weren't able to balance the new blood and old overseas blood to any satisfactory degree.

thats because hes lost his best players to better teams, and replaced em with that Insomnia bloke from newcastle.

Wasn't it actually Mo's idea to bring in the Salary Cap?