Re: Salary cap amendment : Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:37 pm  

St pete wrote:

We don't want to go down the cricket road. The England players basically owned by the England cricket board and hardly play for their county.

Yeah I know, RU is a bit more leniant but that's the way that I feel we'll have perhaps have to go to create more of an interest in the international game. But I suppose thats a discussion for another time/place.

This "exemption" scenario could work, but it would need for every team in the league to be an attractice proposition for players coming OOC. Take Widnes for example, if they finished around the playoffs next year, and (for example) Johnny Lomax was out of contract, if they were willing to name him as their exemption (and Saints couldn't match, Roby) then that would be talent spreading out over the league as they'd be able to make it worth it for him financially. Wouldn't happen at the minute though as outside the top 4 or 5 teams just aren't attractive propositions. Low attendances, poor stadium, poor team etc etc.

Re: Salary cap amendment : Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:44 pm  

St pete wrote: Wigan and RFL discussed it two weeks ago. But I believe the full meeting of all clubs was yesterday. There maybe something on here tonight at 8 p.m. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bb ... merseyside It just depends when the Wane interview was done.

St pete wrote: Wigan and RFL discussed it two weeks ago. But I believe the full meeting of all clubs was yesterday. There maybe something on here tonight at 8 p.m. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bb ... merseyside It just depends when the Wane interview was done.

Re: Salary cap amendment : Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:02 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: But I believe the full meeting of all clubs was yesterday. There maybe something on here tonight at 8 p.m. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bb ... merseyside It just depends when the Wane interview was done. Was anything said?

Rogues Gallery wrote: But I believe the full meeting of all clubs was yesterday. There maybe something on here tonight at 8 p.m. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bb ... merseyside It just depends when the Wane interview was done. Was anything said?

Re: Salary cap amendment : Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:39 pm  

St pete wrote:

Was anything said?

Only some grunts by Wane which appeared to confirm the article on the RFL's site.

I confess I took more notice of the interview with McManus.

Re: Salary cap amendment : Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:20 pm  

St pete wrote: Was anything said? Very interesting especially in relation to what I pm'd you earlier. 39 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00l99h9

St pete wrote: Was anything said? Very interesting especially in relation to what I pm'd you earlier. 39 minutes in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00l99h9

Re: Salary cap amendment : Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:56 pm  

A bit more here. http://www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/1 ... um=twitter

A bit more here. http://www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/1 ... um=twitter

Re: Salary cap amendment : Sat Nov 12, 2011 1:55 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote: A bit more here. http://www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/1 ... um=twitter So what does that mean?

Rogues Gallery wrote: A bit more here. http://www.code13rugbyleague.com/2011/1 ... um=twitter So what does that mean?

Re: Salary cap amendment : Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:01 pm  

St pete wrote:

So what does that mean?

I can't figure it out whether its 100k per player, or up to a total of 100k in total.

If you've produced a player who is current in the knights or England squad, you get a certain figure extra on the cap, if that player also plays for you, that figure is doubled. If said player plays for another side, they get the same amount.

Re: Salary cap amendment : Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:05 pm  

St pete wrote:

So what does that mean?

It means what it says on the tin so far as I can see. Clubs who develop players who end up in the ETS or Knights squad get allowances: two per player. If the player was developed by AND plays for a club both allowances go to the one club; if the player was developed in one club but plays for another when in the ETS/Knights then they get one allowance and the current team get the other. So, Wakey won't get any allowances at all so far as I know because I don't think they have developed anyone towards either team and nor did they have any players in 2011 who were in either team but developed elsewhere. The maximum allowances can reach is £100,000 above the salary cap. I don't know how the finances work in practical terms because the RFL has not disclosed that bit (surprise, surprise) but if the allowances are on a sliding scale, as apparently they are, one would assume that those in the Knights attract a lower allowance than those in the ETS.

Re: Salary cap amendment : Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:08 pm  

inside_man wrote:

I can't figure it out whether its 100k per player, or up to a total of 100k in total.

No I couldn't figure that one out either. I wonder if that's been kept deliberately vague in order to allow the big spenders of Leeds, Warrington and Wigan freedom to crash the salary cap?