Wiganer Ted wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:07 pm
How can a club in London having to pay London salaries thrive on a salary cap of £2.1m?
Wigan manage the SC with all sorts of exemptions so a successful London based club has no chance.
All club personnel have to live, pay rent/mortgage and the costs in London are massively more than the North of England where Super League, bar Catalans, is based.
The Salary Cap has proved utterly pointless. It was to stop clubs spending beyond their financial limits which is very obviously not working. It was also supposed to make it a more even competition but with only three clubs winning it since 2006 then that idea has failed miserably.
The only way London Broncos can succeed is by removing the salary cap and allowing owners to invest their money in player recruitment and development, marketing etc to the level required to have a thriving club in the capital.
I doubt they've often been able to pay up to the salary cap TBH. Lets sort that out and when they start complaining about not being able to pay more that will be a sign that they are nice and financially stable!
