<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Matthew posted:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <br/> We have handicapped ourselves by £200K for this season - does the RFL not think that it has affected our season? Knowing what we do now we should have just spent the money; as trying to balance out the cap and being ho...

<t>This challenge from Wigan is going to have huge repurcussions for lots of ways clubs adminster their accounts. This ruling essentially means that whatever contract a player has is set in stone for the duration of their time at club. With this presidence it would take a brave club to alter a playe...

<r> [/quote]<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Fujiman posted:<e>[/b]</e></B> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s><B><s>[b]</s>GeoffN posted:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <br/> <br/> "The RFL are also understood to have questioned image rights contracts held by the club and whether they carried over into the current season....

<t>{quote} There should be no way that differred payments, offshore accounts, and any other loopholes could possibly be exploited from now on. <br/> <br/> These both work in different ways. The discretionary employee benefit trust (EBT) that SH used to their advantage in previous years had 2 main ad...

<t>Hi Mike,<br/> <br/> you'll recall I posted a while ago concerning this issue of deferred payments. I would imagine Wigan will very fully consider their position RE appeals otherwise you can see us having domino effect on points deductions for years to come. Deferred payment strategy will almost c...

<t>They gall me.<br/> <br/> They had a slightly better team on the night. I watched it with a SH crowing neighbour who seemed to think that the absence of Gilmour and Wilkin was cancelled by the premature injuries to Fielden and Prescott within 15 minutrs of the match.<br/> <br/> I'll acknowledge to...

<t>To be fair Wilkin isn't a regularly nasty player and the ban is probably about right. I'm just glad he's not playing. <br/> <br/> I must admit for the first time in maybe 2 years I think we've got a decent chance of winning SH on Friday. The bookies don't agree though and give Saints between -6 a...

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Matthew posted:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> Surely that only counts if they actually work for the club? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> Yep. Sorry I should have been more specific.<br/> <br/> If you check the salary cap regulations on the RFL website, all of the obvious ways rou...

<t>When players retire on medical grounds they'll usually have some sort of pay-off clause in their contract and I think it's usually around 6 months. Given Jerry Seuseu retired mid season, he was probably paid up in full until the end of the rugby league financial year (November). Kris Radlinski re...

This is all hopelessly negative. What is it about Wigan that breeds this pessisism and narrow mindedness. At least let's approach the coming year with something approaching an open mind before all the doom and gloom sets in.