I've been undecided about whether scrapping the cap or implementing the "golden ticket" idea is the best way forward for the game.

Having looked at the way the Aviva Premiership works I've noticed each club has £240k available in "academy credits".

Basically, if players are trained by the clubs academy the first £30k of their wage doesn't count on the cap up to a maximum of eight players (£30k x8 being £240k).

This would not only create extra spending power for the clubs to bring superstars over but would also encourage them to ensure homegrown talent are given first team opportunities.

The perfect scenario being a club like Leeds making full use of the academy credits and thus being able to make an offer to players like Cameron Smith, for example.

I'd be interested to see what people thought of that......

Whatever the alternative is, it's not (or at least shouldn't be) a Koukash-style free-for-all where rich backers can buy up all the talent for their clubs.

It would be quite nice if the good Dr actually shut up for a bit and concentrated on making a success of his own club, before telling everyone else how to run theirs.

He does seem to want to play it like a game of Football Manager on your PC. Spend all your budget and sign up all the players you can. If he had is way Salford would have a different team each year, as it appears the spending is what he likes. Like a women in a shopping mall.

I thought that at first but then I was told his modus operandi is to ensure Salford are in the press as often as he can, given how hard it is for them to get any media attention in Manchester. If that means he has to spout off now and again then no publicity is bad publicity etc.

I guess as Leeds fans we can get a bit complacent as we're a large club, big media operation and people will come to us for stories. I recall Douggie Laighton saying something similar when he joined us. At Wides, who were far better and more successful than Leeds, he would have to ring journalists regularly. When he got to Leeds, who were a bag if sheeyite in comparison to that Widnes side he couldn't believe how much media attention he got.

Cas are spending the full cap.

We are probably not utilising the exemptions though.

Pity he used it to pick his nose in public.