The thing people forget about warringtons salary cap is the players that do get overlooked nowadays, such as Jon Clarke, who was playing for England just 2 years ago are still going to be on good contracts. Clubs cant just lower a players wages just because he is not being used on a regular basis, people go on about the players warrington bring in and why are they not over, but the players leaving were signed arnt going to be on small contracts.

You made the point about Saints of old (When we were good) seeming to have a squad too good to be under the cap. That was because they were always top and winning trophies.

Warrington are doing similar now, because they are well coached and performing well. But, if they had a bad season and dropped down a few positions people wouldn't allege they were cheating the cap. Performance on the field warps how people see the cap issue.

If Wire were top after 20 games of next season and unbeaten, everyone would be moaning about them being over the cap. If they weren't doing so well, had a few injuries and were running third or fourth, people wouldn't be saying their over the cap.

agree with this.

The same applies to Referees and the RFL...a team performs well and fans from other clubs think the refs are in their back pocket along with the RFL.

fair play. i know what your saying.

I think you maybe getting a bit confused, Gary Hetherington wasnt at Leeds in the days of Laughton, Hanley, Gregory etc and Saints were run pretty poorly pre McManus , sure we had a brief boost just pre Superleague when Howes was at the club but that from what I gather was a bit of a 'wigan' i.e unsustainable. Some of the great players we've had have either come through the ranks or been picked up cheap, Longy for instance wasnt a bank buster.

His agent spoke to a few clubs! Saints had another target and didnt push for him! Wire didnt hang around!