The unfortunate thing is, and I'm no supporter of DJ, he is taking all the crap etc but there are 2 other directors [he is CEO and Chairman, and they MUST have known what was going on as well as the accountants who (or DJ) have not provided the "books" for a couple of years for the "public" to see the income and expenditure as should have been done. Illegal payments [in the RFL terms re salary caps for travel/housing/etc etc are one of the major problems along with match betting and 1st try scorer etc can only be described as stupid. (Shaun Leaf, Sean Long etc etc.)
DJ has tried to compare payments, such as travel and accomadation, as separate to salary etc, as is in 'normal' business worlds, but the rules are clear within the salary cap and basically, he is a loser on a lost cause. Just because he feels the players travelling from Hull, Leeds etc should be special cases for Barrow. He shouldn't have either offered stupid wages in the 1st place or got players from so far away, or both. South Wales Scorpians are coping (allegedly). The RFL should have penalised Celtic Crusaders more in line with the Raiders punishment with their illegal immigrant players, but I suppose because they were an expansion team in SL there are different rules..
RFL to Crusaders
RFL to Raiders
Something needs sorting at the RFL...........try sticking to the same rules FOR EVERY CLUB
