Re: Warrington, it just gets silly.
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:04 pm
Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
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Despite Dave's own comments/position regarding the cap on this forum, he admits on the RLFans site, that Warrington must have an "elastic cap". So your comment is a little unfair. I just think he is playing Devil's Advocate on the site.gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
Haven't read RLFans but had no intention of being unfair but I think Dave can take it if sobutt monkey wrote:Despite Dave's own comments/position regarding the cap on this forum, he admits on the RLFans site, that Warrington must have an "elastic cap". So your comment is a little unfair. I just think he is playing Devil's Advocate on the site.gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
It's more the other way around. That was a one off comment that got a response I was expecting from the resident Wire fan in that thread.butt monkey wrote:Despite Dave's own comments/position regarding the cap on this forum, he admits on the RLFans site, that Warrington must have an "elastic cap". So your comment is a little unfair. I just think he is playing Devil's Advocate on the site.gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
Perhaps its just been waiting for someone to come along who's not afraid to spend a few quid out of their own back pocket? I'm not accusing anyone of fiddling at all with my comments and this isn't specific to Warrington but where there's a will there's a way. The cap is always going to have to rely some degree on honesty from the clubs, in every business there is dishonesty and people looking for loopholes or ways of cheating the system. Rugby League is no different. On a small scale I worked with hundreds of suppliers trying to get sales contracts. Within ten minutes I could have setup an imaginary supplier authorised a payment to them and deleted the record of the payment should I have wanted to.. I have no doubt there was some serious fraud going on all the time but unless someone who received money in error reported it nobody would be any the wiser. The amount of money which could make a serious difference to a rugby player is pocket money to someone with millions and whats to say the player can't be paid in 5 years time when he's forgotten about and moved on? Nobody knows but if I were a betting man I would bet that there are fiddles going on at more than one club.DaveO wrote:It's more the other way around. That was a one off comment that got a response I was expecting from the resident Wire fan in that thread.butt monkey wrote:Despite Dave's own comments/position regarding the cap on this forum, he admits on the RLFans site, that Warrington must have an "elastic cap". So your comment is a little unfair. I just think he is playing Devil's Advocate on the site.gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
I don't think it is naive to think if the cap were easy to break it would have ceased to function long before now.
Dave
gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
standishwarrior wrote:gpartin wrote:Dave, I never thought I'd say it but I think you are being naive. A multi millionaire could slip a player a few grand a week without anyone noticing.
or even maybe a one-off under the table payment to make sure he sign's for their club. that is somthing that a millionaire owner could do with-out getting noticed