so you think £300k per year is very little when the rest of the players have to share out the remaining £1.4 million?

principle

We need some more details. It seems the 100K is the maximum a club can get and it looks like a sliding scale with perhaps the Knights players on a lower allowance to the full England squad.

Its a bit confusing because it only stipulates England and the Knights but then says Catalans will get the full 100K because of their development fro the French side.

Also has the 100k (or part thereof) to be divided only amongst the players that attracted the allowances?

There'll always be an imbalance with Catalans - at least while the RFL is still trying to develop the game out there.

I'm not convinced about the 'principle'. This system will always favour the bigger richer clubs with larger fan bases and better facilities, as they are the clubs to which aspiring youngsters are most likely to look to for development. In this sense it moves away from a 'principled' salary cap which has been lauded as a great leveller for clubs who previously struggled to compete.

I would say too that allowing clubs without significant end of year net profits to find themselves able to increase their salaries for their young players without reducing expenditure elsewhere is madness.

I thought one of the aims of the cap in the first place was to help prevent clubs over spending.