The time has come to scrap the salary cap in this country.



Let's say there's a financial backer who'd like to launch an RL club based at one of the big south west RU clubs and he is willing to spend up to £5m per annum on players - why tell him he can't ? There's plenty of evidence on here that the game needs as much finance as it can get.



The Salary Cap no longer serves any useful purpose.



Remember, there's an RFL limit on the number of players any one club can register anyway.

Lets say I am a big financial backer then. I would ar rather invest in a sport where I know I can build a competitive squad for a known cost, where I know there will not be ridiculous player wage inflation, and where I know I can control my costs and be competitive. That's the salary cap.

Good god. Ok you need to stop the Q-tip when you feel resistance.



The limit on number of players is 40. Unless a club enters a reserve/u20's team in which case it can have 50. Unless a club enters an u18's team in which case it can have 65. And that only applies to players over the age of 16. Which club has used anywhere close to 65 players in a season before?

We can have this discussion when a financial backer for one of the game's Southern clubs comes along.



At the moment all it would mean is the trophies were decided on a penile measuring system between Warrington, Leeds and Wigan as to which club wanted to spend the most irresponsibly.

Its 25 full time pros in a squad.



There is a reason for the cap, its not working.



I honestly don’t know why some people are so enamoured with this type of cap and so against a different way. This cap clearly doesn’t work, hasn’t worked, and stops us competing for the best players.

We should definately have some osrt of cap, else the precarious fianacial positions of our clubs would be vastly exaggerated and even those clubs who generate enough income to run well will go down the road of overspending in order to secure trophies.



I would listen to arguments that a clubs cap should be in line with their income/turnover, but to scrap it all together would be ludicrous.

Want a bigger cap? The the RFL have to get their finger out re sponsor ship and TV deals and get more money to the clubs.

The clubs need to pull their fingers out as well. Considering how many RL clubs are either the only or the main sports club in their area they are generally rubbish at engaging with the local population.

Agreed.

You know very little as to the motivation of why a mega rich backer would get involved with sport if you think limiting his losses was high up there.



Its no wonder we have idiots at the top, no P&R and are becoming a laughing stock as a sport.

Why do you think that?

Because it fits in with his narrative which stops him having to admit that the top level of the game has left his club behind.



It means he can blame the RFL and the big bad unsustainable big clubs who are no better than his club they just have some loser who lucked into some money he throwing around. It means he doesn’t have to admit that some clubs are better run than his, that some have earned their ‘advantages’ and that some are and will be bigger than his.



It’s a childish defence mechanism.

Who are these people who are laughing at us? When i start talking about RL to people they dont know what it is so are in no position to have an opinion let alone laugh