Quote Boris="Boris"The league cap is what, 1.4 million? The figure being bounded about is 400k a season for Joel. Now even if it was half that, there is no way any Super Duper League team can spend 200k on one player with the limitations imposed by the salary cap.'"
So scrap the cap and pay Joel Tomkins £400k. You then surely have to give Mossop £300k, Charnley £250k and so on. Even the for a wealthy club like Wigan, I suspect money would soon become the problem, rather than the cap.
Unless something dramatic happens (much more dramatic than raising or binning the salary cap), we've either got to put up with the likes of Eastmond and Tomkins being cherry-picked and or learn to love line-outs.
Tbf, we spent decades taking players from Union.
The one consolation is that the NRL is becoming an alternative, so players have a good option for staying in our sport, if not our League.