God wrote:
Hes not employing family and friends etc within the club hes giving family freebes out of his own back pocket which wont count on the cap and there is no way of accounting for it.
But things like that do count on the cap. If a player or his family receive any benefits in kind the RFL deem to be as a result of his contract with a club it goes onto his salary cap value no matter who pays it.
The salary cap may be live but his nemourus other banks not connected with the salary cap wont be live and he can do whatever he pleases with his money, thats a fact.
So why aren't all the clubs doing exactly the same thing? If the salary cap was this easy to get around it would not be worth the paper it's written on. Why did we go to the lengths we did under Mo not to break it? Why not just do as you suggest and get Dave Whelan to make the payments you are saying the Wire chairman is making?
Lets suppose all the other chairman are scrupulously honest and stick to the cap. Do you think they would not be asking questions of the RFL if they thought one team had found a way around the cap or were flouting it in some way?
Finally lets suppose he has found a loophole that means he can get around the cap within the rules. That is when the "not on the spirit of the cap" comes in. We didn't actually break the cap but got done by this rule. If Wire have found a way around it then doing so isn't in the spirit of the cap is it!
Can you imagine it. Why have you taken £300,000 out of your bank account. "My Mrs needed a new ring", Have you got the reciept??? "No". How can they proove anything when the players have Australian bank accounts anyway, they would have to accuse players of reciving money from false means, that would open up a massive can of worms the rfl wont be able to handle, so they just leave it.
The idea a chairman can pay players a back hander and it not come out eventually is just not realistic.
Dave