Re: Shaun Ainscough
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 7:36 pm
It's actually pretty simple rules-wise.
Taken directly from the rules:
A Club must ensure that its Aggregate First Tier Liability does not exceed £1,600,000 (One Million Six Hundred Thousand Pounds) at any time during the Salary Cap Year.
(a)
A Club’s “Aggregate First Tier Liability†is calculated by adding together the respective Salary Cap Values of the Club’s First Tier Players at the given time in question.
(b) A Club’s “First Tier Players†are the 25 Players registered with the Club and eligible to play in the Super League who have the highest Salary Cap Values at the time in question, whether or not they have played for the Club in a Salary Cap Relevant Match in the Salary Cap Year to that date.
It can then spend up to £50K on it's second tier players. Taken form the rules:
A Club must ensure that its Aggregate Second Tier Liability does not exceed £50,000 (Fifty Thousand Pounds) at any time during the Salary Cap Year.
(a)
A Club’s “Aggregate Second Tier Liability†at any given time during the Salary Cap Year is calculated by adding together the Salary Cap Values of the Club’s Second Tier Players at the time in question.
(b) A Club’s “Second Tier Players†are those Players who have represented the Club in a Salary Cap Relevant Match during the Salary Cap Year but do not have one of the Club’s 25 highest Salary Cap Values at the time in question.
So Aincough will be a second tier player as I expect will Sam Tomkins.
We have no idea though how Mathers leaving, Goulding going on loan and Gleeson joining has affected the first tier liability.
For example it could be possible that with effectively two players out and one in, the highest paid player outside the top 25 earners would now be considered part of the first tier. So his wages would count as part of the £1.6m cap and no longer count on the £50K second tier cap.
It's got to work like that when you think about it because the first tier players are simply the top 25 earners so with two out and one in then another player just got "promoted" to a 1st tier player as far as the salary cap goes because don't forget the cap is "live" and adjusted as clubs make changes to their teams.
The important thing to remember is these are two completely separate pots of money and if we only spend £1.4m on the top 25 players we can't then spend £250,000 on the second tier players. The £50K limit still applies to the 2nd tier players.
So if anyone wants to speculate we can't play Ainscough because we would break the cap then you need to work out which 2nd tier players we have on the books which basically means which players outside the top 25 earners have played in a SL or Cup game for us this year.
If it is only S Tomkins and Ainscough then the club has £50K to spend between them. I'd be very surprised if either of them had clauses in their contracts that put them on a wage that would break that limit.
Dave
Taken directly from the rules:
A Club must ensure that its Aggregate First Tier Liability does not exceed £1,600,000 (One Million Six Hundred Thousand Pounds) at any time during the Salary Cap Year.
(a)
A Club’s “Aggregate First Tier Liability†is calculated by adding together the respective Salary Cap Values of the Club’s First Tier Players at the given time in question.
(b) A Club’s “First Tier Players†are the 25 Players registered with the Club and eligible to play in the Super League who have the highest Salary Cap Values at the time in question, whether or not they have played for the Club in a Salary Cap Relevant Match in the Salary Cap Year to that date.
It can then spend up to £50K on it's second tier players. Taken form the rules:
A Club must ensure that its Aggregate Second Tier Liability does not exceed £50,000 (Fifty Thousand Pounds) at any time during the Salary Cap Year.
(a)
A Club’s “Aggregate Second Tier Liability†at any given time during the Salary Cap Year is calculated by adding together the Salary Cap Values of the Club’s Second Tier Players at the time in question.
(b) A Club’s “Second Tier Players†are those Players who have represented the Club in a Salary Cap Relevant Match during the Salary Cap Year but do not have one of the Club’s 25 highest Salary Cap Values at the time in question.
So Aincough will be a second tier player as I expect will Sam Tomkins.
We have no idea though how Mathers leaving, Goulding going on loan and Gleeson joining has affected the first tier liability.
For example it could be possible that with effectively two players out and one in, the highest paid player outside the top 25 earners would now be considered part of the first tier. So his wages would count as part of the £1.6m cap and no longer count on the £50K second tier cap.
It's got to work like that when you think about it because the first tier players are simply the top 25 earners so with two out and one in then another player just got "promoted" to a 1st tier player as far as the salary cap goes because don't forget the cap is "live" and adjusted as clubs make changes to their teams.
The important thing to remember is these are two completely separate pots of money and if we only spend £1.4m on the top 25 players we can't then spend £250,000 on the second tier players. The £50K limit still applies to the 2nd tier players.
So if anyone wants to speculate we can't play Ainscough because we would break the cap then you need to work out which 2nd tier players we have on the books which basically means which players outside the top 25 earners have played in a SL or Cup game for us this year.
If it is only S Tomkins and Ainscough then the club has £50K to spend between them. I'd be very surprised if either of them had clauses in their contracts that put them on a wage that would break that limit.
Dave