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Dave it was in one of the weekly rugby league newspapers. They mentioned inflation as a reason for going to £25,000 but it implied that the rise was not automatic and could have been voted against.

cpwigan posted:
Dave it was in one of the weekly rugby league newspapers. They mentioned inflation as a reason for going to £25,000 but it implied that the rise was not automatic and could have been voted against.

I think I will email the chap at the RFL and try and find out what the real deal is.

Dave

Just got an "out of office" notification from the chap at the RFL. Due back in on the 29th so if he replies after that I will forward what he has to say.

I can't say I recall any press releases from the rfl on the salary cap recently and I get then sent to me through rlfans.

Dave

Dave it is on page 3 of what used to be League Express. The reporter is a Chris Jones and he quotes 'a rugby league spokesman'

cpwigan posted:
Dave it is on page 3 of what used to be League Express. The reporter is a Chris Jones and he quotes 'a rugby league spokesman'

The fact you said the article stated it was staying at 1.7 million makes it sound like sloppy reporting to me since it wad the rfl's club accountant who told me it was 1.75 million this year and it is his job to police the cap.

So that casts a bit of doubt over the rest of it to me. The chap at the rfl is usually very good at replying to emails so let see what he says.

I have also asked him to confirm that it is indeed £1.75 million this year (which is what he told me it would be in October 2005 at the end of last season).

Dave

DaveO posted:

cpwigan posted:
Dave it is on page 3 of what used to be League Express. The reporter is a Chris Jones and he quotes 'a rugby league spokesman'

The fact you said the article stated it was staying at 1.7 million makes it sound like sloppy reporting to me since it wad the rfl's club accountant who told me it was 1.75 million this year and it is his job to police the cap.

So that casts a bit of doubt over the rest of it to me. The chap at the rfl is usually very good at replying to emails so let see what he says.

I have also asked him to confirm that it is indeed £1.75 million this year (which is what he told me it would be in October 2005 at the end of last season).

Dave

Dave, the same chap said to me that this season's cap is £1.75m when I emailed him last year. Given some of Martyn Sadler's comments in this week's League Express, it wouldn't surprise me if they've deliberately put £1.7m in by mistake, they seem to be going for misleading information and innuendo suggesting wrongdoing by Wigan this week. And of course they've got everyone's favourite baldy Sky Sports commentator writing in there as well these days, and Stevo's also been working to the same script as the rest of them.

I've not even got as far as reading the letters page yet, somehow I can already guess what "Disgusted" of St Helens will have to say on the Fielden signing.

I never read the letters pages Fraggle

my opinion is that they should keep the 20/20 rule or 20/25.However any player that has come through the clubs academy system should be exempt from the salary cap and each team should be able to have as many of these players as they want to and pay them what they want to for as long as they remain at the club.That should force teams to invest in their academy set ups and hopefully produce more talent in to the game.the current system seems geared to wigan producing talent for every other team.

cpwigan posted:
I would go with your ideas myself 25/25 and £2 million

I daresay the problem is that the 'lesser clubs' will not want it and prevent it happening.

It does not matter how sensible we are or how much common sense you apply the League always wants to dum down to suit the lowest common denominator.

What needs to happen is for the richer clubs to be allowed to spend more providing a percentage of what they plan to spend is made available to other clubs based on a simple points system.

100 points shared between all clubs

If wakefield have a points rating of 10 then 10 percent of all monies payed over the sallary cap by any of the richer clubs would go to Wakefield. (The rest of the teames share 100 points between them.) This would allow clubs to bust the sallery cap but for every pound they spend over the limit then a pound is donated to the rest of the clubs in the league.

This would then have the effect of the more the richer clubs spend then all the teams in the league will benifit.

who was the man in charge when the salary cap was first brought in?,who is the man now breaching the cap knowing any penalty is only valid next season?