Since when has the cap mattered to Wigan anyway

So Carvell, Broughton and Gale will count for Leeds like Westerman and Shenton did for Cas. You just don’t think they should because they were released relatively early in their careers (though at 1st team squad member status)?

If its up to £100k and clubs are expected to only spend what they can afford why not up to £200k if a club can afford it? Or £300K?

It’s a fudge, it’s the RFL’s half d attempt to please both sides and end up pleasing none. It could have been clean, simple and transparent if the RFL simply said, we cut the SC by £100k and you can nominate 1 marquee player and pay him whatever the hell you want and it doesn’t count on the cap (in fact they should go much much further but they are clearly desperate not to)

I have to agree with you. Im grateful weve been able to keep Sam in RL and at Wigan but these new rules dont seem to make any sense at all going forward imo. It needs to be a lot more cut and dried like if a player has come through your academy his wages only count 75% to the cap or something along them lines.

Make the cap £1.25 mil, but players from your own academy only count up to 50% of the cap.

These are the details that we don't know. How long does a player need to be in club's academy system before they count for dispensation? Do they have to have played first team before they move on to count?

There's an awful lot on the SC we don't know. The whole thing is extremely complicated. Rogues published the entire document last week and I'll bet most people gave up after the first page.Do we really need to know the ins and outs of the dispensation? Anyway, the clubs seem to be relatively happy with it, apart from Neil Hudgell at HKR, who may now be questioning the wisdom of having 11 non-England qualified players in his squad.