Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:45 am  

nottinghamtiger wrote:

The thing is, it is easy to breach the salary cap. Just make payments to a player through a third party company. The RFL have no right to audit the other company nor the individual player. However, you are utterly reliant on the player never disclosing the arrangement, as if they do you are royally screwed. As seems to be the case here.

Can the RFL legally ask for another company to produce any form of evidence surrounding this, the RFL ask did you? the club says no so at that point do the RFL have any legal standing to produce their books.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:53 am  

Michigan red wrote:

Can the RFL legally ask for another company to produce any form of evidence surrounding this, the RFL ask did you? the club says no so at that point do the RFL have any legal standing to produce their books.

Clubs agree to the RFL auditing their accounts as a criteria for joining the competition. So although they have no LEGAL right to get clubs to produce financial information, they have to if they want to remain in any competition where the RFL are the governing body.
The RFL have no legal right to ask other companies or individuals to disclose financial information.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:54 am  

Michigan red wrote:

Can the RFL legally ask for another company to produce any form of evidence surrounding this, the RFL ask did you? the club says no so at that point do the RFL have any legal standing to produce their books.

Good luck playing the rest of your fixtures then.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:38 am  

Kick Salford out of Superleague(cheating sods) and Saints can sign Masila then.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:48 am  

Frustrating as we know a lot of other teams do/have done this, but they don't have an owner blatantly saying he will do it.
Also frustrating as its going to affect a group of players and coaches who have had no input or gain from this, and lessons seem to have been learned already.
Take the punishment, if its fair, and move on.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:04 pm  

Surely if a current player openly admits that he conspired to break the rules and accepted alleged extra payments through a third party company, then he would also face some sort of disciplinary from the governing body i.e Hock and Chase.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:21 pm  

bandgeekmafia78 wrote:

I would hazard a guess that the club will refute the claims, so I doubt it will be settled any time soon. If we are found guilty it would seem quite harsh to penalise this particular bunch of players as the majority of them weren't at the club in 2014.

2014 was the year the Bulls got relegated. If Salford are found guilty of cheating to avoid relegation then this caused serious ramifications for Bradford. I'm sure many will be interested how the RFL handle this one.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:23 pm  

Sensei-Bull wrote:

2014 was the year the Bulls got relegated. If Salford are found guilty of cheating to avoid relegation then this caused serious ramifications for Bradford. I'm sure many will be interested how the RFL handle this one.

I can see how the Bradford board will be circling like vultures over the outcome of the hearing. Not that I blame them.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:40 pm  

Its only fair then that the points are deducted from the 2014 season points, if we have say 6 points deducted we finish on 17 points. Still 7 ahead of Bradford.

Re: Salary Cap breach : Fri Mar 04, 2016 12:59 pm  

No date has been set for the hearing yet you already know Salford are getting 6 points deducted?

If it is a 6 point deduction then any club can go out and spend what they like as 6 points is easily recovered when you have a team of superstars.