The unfortunate thing is that, until we entice a wider following, and stop being a 'Northern' game, then we a bit scuppered!
I'd love to hear what opinions people would have to break that thought process.... (But i'm pretty sure the directors of the clubs have been working on that for some time. After all, they are all generally successful businessmen)

Spot on. Can't recall Sky Sports going crazy when the aforementioned by the OP move of Higham from Saints to Wigan took place or even the Peacock to Leeds move.

If we scrap or increase the SC, we MIGHT see a big name player switch between big clubs but we might also see it buried away on the news without hardly any mention if it falls on the same day of a footballer getting jailed for trying it on with a 15 year old, or a legendary player dying, or a sex equality row in tennis, or drugs issues in athletics etc.

What will definatley happen though regardless is the "big boys" will take the better players from the "lesser" clubs and those same posters arguing for a scrapping of the cap will complain about the same teams at the top and gap between them and the "rabble" ever increasing and complain about how ever increasing one-sided scores look bad when reported on the same news/press in which they were hoping to get some positive coverage from with their "lets have some big name moves" idea.

We can't increase the salary cap until the sport generates enough money to pay it's way. Otherwise we will end up with the sport having a cycle of bankruptcy for clubs that don't have a wealthy benefactor..... And there aren't a large stream of Saudi oil billionaires queueing up just yet....

And that's a decade ago, though IIRC a number of salary cap hurdles had to be removed along with a specifically arranged salary payment schedule for that transfer to take place. Wigan and Bradford were both desperate for the deal for very different reasons. One to avoid relegation and the other to offset financial distress which they hadn't owned up to at that stage.

Think you are right about chairmen and transfer fees. There are more moves in aus which has a larger cap. I don' t buy all the culture club staying forever stuff but it seems to apply a it more here than down under ( albeit more coin to tempt the movers). Perhaps another factor is that a small set of teams have won titles here, whereas down under honours are spread round a bit more.

even accepting that as the spec, that list is hardly a great dismissal of his point. It happens rarely and on the fringes isnt really a a great repudiation.

GH is the biggest supporter of the SC, In his opinion it levels out the field and makes the competition tighter

Haven't the SL suits negotiated "record" Sky Sports deals the last few times, in fact the last one we jumped into despite the deal not being up for a few years because it was so impressive apparently. Where is that money even going? Clubs must be getting more Sky money than ever.

In the NRL the cap has increased by over £1m in the last 12 years while ours has barely changed in nearly 20 years. I'm not saying we should just put it up, but that just proves there are deeper issues surrounding our game and the administration over here.

The fact that most clubs couldn't be bothered registered a reserve side this year is ridiculous, and that sort of thing needs sorting before a cap increase. The RFL could try something like, allowing clubs an extra £250k to spend a year but it's mandatory to have U16s, U19s and a reserve team.

The SC has been set at a level which favours only a few clubs.

It has had a huge bearing on securing the amount of silverware that Leeds and a couple of other teams have won.

If it had the effect of levelling out the competition, we'd have seen more clubs than Leeds, St Helens and Wigan winning the comp during the last decade.

Only if you're naive enough to think the effect would happen instantly. Takes time for clubs to build teams capable of challenging established winners, and yes that time can be as long as a decade (how long did it take Leeds to win a championship again?)

Since the return to the new Wembley, 9 of the current 12 have reached a final there and of the other 3 Wakey and Widnes are beaten semi-finalists.

jesus, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel, SL sides only had 3 games before the semi's. Widnes beat, Halifax Salford and Keighley and this is somehow evidence of the equality in SL.