[Mild Rover]

2016 SL salary cap regulations : Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:37 pm  

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Super%20 ... %20PDF.pdf The big change that I noticed is that the club-trained rule that disappeared from the squad composition regulations has evolved and moved here. For each club-trained (3 years with club while eligible for u21s) player who plays 10 or more games in SL (with any club) or the NRL, the club that trained that player gets an extra £5k on the cap, the next year. If you've got a dozen playing regularly or semi-regularly for you and maybe another 20 scattered around the league (possibly the case for a club like Wigan, I'm guessing), that'd be an extra £160k. For Rovers, Salter, Welham, Green, Taylor and Watts spring to mind from 2015. Possibly Mariano? Anybody I'm missing? We'll lose Welham for 2016, now he's out of SL, but Cox might manage 10 games at Wire, or Marsh might have a breakout season. Got to admit, it's not a great return on investment over the last 8 years or so. It'll be interesting to see how they'd work it if a player went directly from the new City Academy to another SL club - or even after a spell at Rovers or Hull. £2.5k each? Focuses the reward on clubs that produce players, without the club necessarily having to retain the player - although only for clubs with the money to spend the extra, of course. An improvement on the must include 7 in the squad rule, IMO. I also think they've brought back the 50% of club-relevant income rule, as an additional limit - though with the TV money going up and the cap not rising (things like the above, aside), it might not make much difference now.

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Super%20 ... %20PDF.pdf The big change that I noticed is that the club-trained rule that disappeared from the squad composition regulations has evolved and moved here. For each club-trained (3 years with club while eligible for u21s) player who plays 10 or more games in SL (with any club) or the NRL, the club that trained that player gets an extra £5k on the cap, the next year. If you've got a dozen playing regularly or semi-regularly for you and maybe another 20 scattered around the league (possibly the case for a club like Wigan, I'm guessing), that'd be an extra £160k. For Rovers, Salter, Welham, Green, Taylor and Watts spring to mind from 2015. Possibly Mariano? Anybody I'm missing? We'll lose Welham for 2016, now he's out of SL, but Cox might manage 10 games at Wire, or Marsh might have a breakout season. Got to admit, it's not a great return on investment over the last 8 years or so. It'll be interesting to see how they'd work it if a player went directly from the new City Academy to another SL club - or even after a spell at Rovers or Hull. £2.5k each? Focuses the reward on clubs that produce players, without the club necessarily having to retain the player - although only for clubs with the money to spend the extra, of course. An improvement on the must include 7 in the squad rule, IMO. I also think they've brought back the 50% of club-relevant income rule, as an additional limit - though with the TV money going up and the cap not rising (things like the above, aside), it might not make much difference now.

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:29 pm  

Has anyone ever posted a more complicated post?

Surely everyone has just given up on the ridonckulously convoluted cap and elligability criteria.

I had to spoon my own eyes out with a rusty spoon and learn Braille to write this.

[Mild Rover]

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Thu Jan 07, 2016 11:19 pm  

I have an intellectual fetish for complexity, and it can be used (and sometimes exploited) in clever ways. A bit of elegant simplicity is generally better though. Dispensations for England players, brought in and binned off, the marquee player rule, this now... really, they should just raise the cap. It'd be the same clubs taking advantage for the most part.

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Fri Jan 08, 2016 7:59 am  

Thank goodness we have our CEO (and his Remington) to guide the club through the malaise of red tape. He is an expert on the subject matter.

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Fri Jan 08, 2016 12:30 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Super%20League%20Salary%20Cap%20Regulations%202016%20_final%20PDF.pdf

The big change that I noticed is that the club-trained rule that disappeared from the squad composition regulations has evolved and moved here.

For each club-trained (3 years with club while eligible for u21s) player who plays 10 or more games in SL (with any club) or the NRL, the club that trained that player gets an extra £5k on the cap, the next year. If you've got a dozen playing regularly or semi-regularly for you and maybe another 20 scattered around the league (possibly the case for a club like Wigan, I'm guessing), that'd be an extra £160k.
For Rovers, Salter, Welham, Green, Taylor and Watts spring to mind from 2015. Possibly Mariano? Anybody I'm missing? We'll lose Welham for 2016, now he's out of SL, but Cox might manage 10 games at Wire, or Marsh might have a breakout season. Got to admit, it's not a great return on investment over the last 8 years or so.
It'll be interesting to see how they'd work it if a player went directly from the new City Academy to another SL club - or even after a spell at Rovers or Hull. £2.5k each?

Focuses the reward on clubs that produce players, without the club necessarily having to retain the player - although only for clubs with the money to spend the extra, of course. An improvement on the must include 7 in the squad rule, IMO.

I also think they've brought back the 50% of club-relevant income rule, as an additional limit - though with the TV money going up and the cap not rising (things like the above, aside), it might not make much difference now.

Thanks for the explanation. We will obviously not benefit too much at the moment but hopefully more in years to come unless the RFL change things again as they are prone to do. I think Dr K at Salford will not be too pleased with the regulation though.

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:31 am  

Keiththered wrote:

Thanks for the explanation. We will obviously not benefit too much at the moment but hopefully more in years to come unless the RFL change things again as they are prone to do. I think Dr K at Salford will not be too pleased with the regulation though.

It's the RFL, they'll probably change it before the season starts

Re: 2016 SL salary cap regulations : Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:46 pm  

Mild Rover wrote:

http://media.therfl.co.uk/docs/Super%20League%20Salary%20Cap%20Regulations%202016%20_final%20PDF.pdf

The big change that I noticed is that the club-trained rule that disappeared from the squad composition regulations has evolved and moved here.

For each club-trained (3 years with club while eligible for u21s) player who plays 10 or more games in SL (with any club) or the NRL, the club that trained that player gets an extra £5k on the cap, the next year. If you've got a dozen playing regularly or semi-regularly for you and maybe another 20 scattered around the league (possibly the case for a club like Wigan, I'm guessing), that'd be an extra £160k.
For Rovers, Salter, Welham, Green, Taylor and Watts spring to mind from 2015. Possibly Mariano? Anybody I'm missing? We'll lose Welham for 2016, now he's out of SL, but Cox might manage 10 games at Wire, or Marsh might have a breakout season. Got to admit, it's not a great return on investment over the last 8 years or so.
It'll be interesting to see how they'd work it if a player went directly from the new City Academy to another SL club - or even after a spell at Rovers or Hull. £2.5k each?

Focuses the reward on clubs that produce players, without the club necessarily having to retain the player - although only for clubs with the money to spend the extra, of course. An improvement on the must include 7 in the squad rule, IMO.

I also think they've brought back the 50% of club-relevant income rule, as an additional limit - though with the TV money going up and the cap not rising (things like the above, aside), it might not make much difference now.

These changes were voted in as an add on to the marquee player rule, Rovers voted in favour. The marquee rule (watered down significantly as it was), would still never have got enough votes if the club trained allowance hadn't been part of the package too.

Rovers have no plans to make a marquee signing and are about £150k short of maximum cap even without the add ons so it really doesn't make any difference to us at all, Neil Hudgell says we voted in favour because it was inevitable sometime anyway.