press conferance

Quote: Saddened! "Coach Brian McClennan told BBC Radio Leeds: "This is the nature of our sport - particularly with the salary cap." McClennan added: "There is of course major disappointment from us that Lee is leaving because he is a quality player. I think people are starting to understand how clubs can't retain all their players given the salary cap".

But now Leeds can
I know what you mean, but this new live cap is very difficult to break, even for Wigan!

There is quite a complex calculation to work out each players salary cap 'value' (as the RFL call it). This has to include all predicted win bonuses, perks such as cars and even a players image rights etc. This means that the cap value of £1.6m can never be breeched but in actual fact, many clubs will end the season not having paid this amount of money out to players in total, because they will not win every game and will not get every bonus the club has to account for on the cap... do you see what I mean?

Also, no, you can't adjust the cap half way through the season. So the club can't say, we have not paid as much win bonus out as we thought we would have to for the first half of the season, so we are going to increase the salaries of all our players by this 'saved' figure for the remainder of the season to bring the figure back into line for a total end season spend of £1.6m. No, once each month goes by the cap reduces in accordance with the predicted salary cap burden, not by the actual figure paid to players, which will probably be that figure or less, never more obviously.