Salary Cap : Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:25 pm  

The RFL are considering lowering the salary cap for Championship sides! Here is the article. http://www.lasttackle.com/blogpost_166-gulf-below-super-league-increasing.html

The RFL are considering lowering the salary cap for Championship sides! Here is the article. http://www.lasttackle.com/blogpost_166-gulf-below-super-league-increasing.html

: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:08 pm  

another way of making sure the teams in SL stay there.

Re: Salary Cap : Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:11 pm  

billyfax wrote: The RFL are considering lowering the salary cap for Championship sides! Here is the article. http://www.lasttackle.com/blogpost_166-gulf-below-super-league-increasing.html This highlights the RFL's totally cock eyed vision of the future We have some clubs struggling financially so instead of looking at real ways of helping them improve their income lets waste a bloody fortune on flying teams over the channel and bugger up teams cash flow by having an odd number of teams in the Championship As for the Championship 1 teams well they can survive on 14 home games a season and a 9 's tournament in Blackpool in the middle of the season Clueless Oh I forgot , changing the name of the competition will help the clubs get more money in as well , that and having games on a thursday night when nobody turns up unless they get free tickets

billyfax wrote: The RFL are considering lowering the salary cap for Championship sides! Here is the article. http://www.lasttackle.com/blogpost_166-gulf-below-super-league-increasing.html This highlights the RFL's totally cock eyed vision of the future We have some clubs struggling financially so instead of looking at real ways of helping them improve their income lets waste a bloody fortune on flying teams over the channel and bugger up teams cash flow by having an odd number of teams in the Championship As for the Championship 1 teams well they can survive on 14 home games a season and a 9 's tournament in Blackpool in the middle of the season Clueless Oh I forgot , changing the name of the competition will help the clubs get more money in as well , that and having games on a thursday night when nobody turns up unless they get free tickets

: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:26 pm  

What a stupid idea, why is this going to help clubs like Doncaster, London Skolars and Workington for example???
It will make the gap even bigger between SL and the Championship.

: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:34 pm  

I've heard of this and I think it is completely ridiculus. Its a cap, not the amount that has to be spent, so teams who don't have the income to spend 400k shouldn't spend the top amount, they should have a proper business plan and cut their cloth accordingly. I agree starbug, the RFL is a shambles that has only super leagues interests. Teams with ambition to play at the top level like halifax, widnes, leigh,barrow etc... shouldn't be held back by teams that are happy to be competing in the national leagues, and have no ambition.Lowering the salary cap is just gonna stop the top clubs spending money on developing talent and surely this is not exactly a benefit for the game, but do the RFL care do they chuff.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:34 am  

It's time we got rid of these buffoons. A set of total cretins with their own agendas.

They are killing the game.

: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:03 am  

Darber wrote:

I've heard of this and I think it is completely ridiculus. Its a cap, not the amount that has to be spent, so teams who don't have the income to spend 400k shouldn't spend the top amount, they should have a proper business plan and cut their cloth accordingly. I agree starbug, the RFL is a shambles that has only super leagues interests. Teams with ambition to play at the top level like halifax, widnes, leigh,barrow etc... shouldn't be held back by teams that are happy to be competing in the national leagues, and have no ambition.Lowering the salary cap is just gonna stop the top clubs spending money on developing talent and surely this is not exactly a benefit for the game, but do the RFL care do they chuff.

That is an excellent point mate.. It's not as if other teams have a gun held to their head and are made to spend the full amount.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:57 am  

In EnemyTerritory wrote:

That is an excellent point mate.. It's not as if other teams have a gun held to their head and are made to spend the full amount.

Halifax learnt that to their cost in the past.

There will be a gun to someone's head somewhere when it comes to voting for this move to be ratified. It's up to the clubs to vote against this, but the RFL, (IMO), will 'persuade' those clubs unfortunate enough to be unable to spend without getting into trouble or have enough to spend to vote for the proposition. It's time that something was done.

Re: Salary Cap : Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:40 am  

Starbug wrote:

This highlights the RFL's totally cock eyed vision of the future

We have some clubs struggling financially so instead of looking at real ways of helping them improve their income lets waste a bloody fortune on flying teams over the channel and bugger up teams cash flow by having an odd number of teams in the Championship

As for the Championship 1 teams well they can survive on 14 home games a season and a 9 's tournament in Blackpool in the middle of the season

Clueless

Oh I forgot , changing the name of the competition will help the clubs get more money in as well , that and having games on a thursday night when nobody turns up unless they get free tickets

It would conveniently make it easier to install a club form say Scotland or Ireland, and allow them to compete with even the top Championship clubs without costing the RFL....err I mean those clubs too much money.

Re: Salary Cap : Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:46 am  

Pepe wrote:

It would conveniently make it easier to install a club form say Scotland or Ireland, and allow them to compete with even the top Championship clubs without costing the RFL....err I mean those clubs too much money.

Well said Pepe. I think that the RFL are trying to ruin the game outside Super League and trying to use the championship to breed new teams for Super League But look at Celtic Crusaders .