Radlinski Appointed Rugby General Manager

[cpwigan]

The dual contracts are simply a more flexible and easier way for young players to gain experience at Championship level rather than be stuck in the reserves. The SL club can still use them if and when they need but otherwise they can play championship RL. It also allows players not qualified for the new U20 competition to stay at their club.

[weststand-rich]

Okay. Not a salary cap dodge, more of an edge betting strategy.

That makes sense now.

[cpwigan]

Very much Rich. Often the old loan system stopped players going out on loan because it was more rigid. I think the only way to manipulate the salary cap is season long loans.

[jaws1]

...... so why have dual contract players? Are these contracts not just formalised loan agreements? You can have player X for Y games, we have him for Z games?

Its so the players can have experience without being tied down to the loan club .Just say for instance Farrel went to Leigh on a dual contract there will be nothing tying him down like there was before ie he would originally have to stay a month and could not come back to Wigan in that time.In the dual contract role in theory he could play one week for Leigh and the next for Wigan.As to the players wages counting on the salary cap IMO the players loaned out would be the lesser players on the fringe of the squad if they have a squad number then they would already be counted on the salary cap as they have a contract.

[DaveO]

Very much Rich. Often the old loan system stopped players going out on loan because it was more rigid. I think the only way to manipulate the salary cap is season long loans.

That correct. It sounds odd at first that a players salary cap value "follows him around" so to speak but it makes sense when you think about it.

If it didn't work like this then for example if half way through a season a club got rid of a player who was on £200K and so this freed up £200K of their cap, that would allow them to sign two players on £100K. But those players would be getting £100K each for half a season i.e. they were really players who could command £200K per-season.

The result would be you get rid of one £200K standard player and end up with two £200K standard players to replace him!

So it doesn't work like that meaning if you get rid of a £200K player and then sign another of the same standard he also counts as £200K on the clubs cap despite only receiving £100k for the remainder of the season.

So the only way to offload a players full salary cap value is a season long loan but you can only replace him with a player who has the same salary cap value.

Dave