Quote ="PHe"If the cap had risen year on year in line with inflation then the players agents/negotiators would retort - because you, as a club, have had an increase in the salary cap ie an inflation adjustment, then this same 'inflation' has affected my player in the same way and he would like the inflation adjustment 'given' to you by the governing body.
In short the inflation adjustment would be eaten up by the current players and thus there would not be any more dosh to spend on 'new' players, who would probably be overseas players with even bigger wage demands.'"
That's already happening and is the.primary reason that the overall quality in super league is down. Every teams fitst 17 is similar and any team can beat anyone, in an ideal world. But many teams cannot cope with one or two losses widnes lost brown.n couldn't buy a win!! Wigan potential grand finalist lose few players n are getting 40 n 50 points put part em last year's treble winners lose 3 players and struggling at the bottom, the cap has resulted in mediocracy in the rest of the squad.
read an article the other day comparing the Leeds team of 2014 to the Wigan team of their peak. Adjusted for inflation, the side Wigan won the WCC in brisbane with cost about twice (in wages) what the 2014 leeds side cost in wages.
The facts are that whilst this cap remains quality will not improve giving no reason for outside investors to invest no lea way in negotiating better tv deals,
For those who say shouldn't rise as you are still jot spending full cap that's utter garbage u get that 1.8m from rights to not spend it is a choice or due to havingv2 pay debts not somthing that the sport should suffer for.??
