I don't think so - that would be ridiculous!!

Why would it? Finding a loophole could be argued to be against the spirit of the cap surely.

I think he was extracting the michael.

this isnt the aussie interpretation of the rules though, there would be a mass of penalties in all oour games this year because of what the refs are allowing to go on

the slowing down in Aus comes from wrestle techniques to hold the person up in the tackle before putting them down and when they do go down they are put on their backs with plenty in the tackle,

this is fine and in the rules and it is great if our players learn some of these things,

If our players go into the 4 nations thinking that laying on and not getting back the ten will acheive the same thing, we will see us lose by plenty and give away ridiculous amounts of penalties.

If we really wanted to defeat the Aussies then we should have allowed the game to evolve, when a team becomes really strong at one aspect of the game, the rest become better at exploiting it themselves and defending against it, then another team becomes better at a different area of the game before the rest become better at it themselves and better at defending it, and the cycle repeats and repeats, if we want to beat australia we need to be not only getting better at what they do (which this interpretation isnt doing, just pretending to) but come up with something new, its certainly not taking the PTB back 10years to a mess because some coaches arent good enough to counter what saints have been good at!

and all this game being dominated by scoots from the PTB is a myth anyway, Leeds have been the most successful team in the past 5 years (by GF wins anyway, which is what SL is about) and we have had a fairly slow hooker in diskin for all those 5 years, his onlly colleagues have been Millard (hardly Usain Bolt) and Danny Buderus (who was always more a passer organiser than a runner)

Saints were never a one trick team, and that trick was never that prevelant in the game, what it demanded however was good and organised defense, something sorely lacking in this country and so we have had to go backwards to cover for those faillings

You mean finding a loophole such as a tax 'avoidance' loophole which means that players can take home more of their salary and pay less to the taxman, whilst the club can offer more take home pay to their players and still keep under the salary cap type of loophole?

A loophole that the IR also is investigating to check whether the use of such 'aviodance' schemes have been 'against the spirit of the inland revenue tax rules'

Yeah - I guess you're right, it probably is against the spirit of the cap isn't it...........