You can read all the details now about the proposed league structure and in particular how the salary cap will work

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/29 ... umentation

Here are some tasty morsels to engender debate

The salary cap at present is limited to 50% of a clubs income upto a finite level of £1.825 million pounds.

This is interesting as i'm sure many of us were of the understanding that the 50% turnover cap had been binned off. Maybe some clubs have been spinning a lie to fans.

Its proposal is that for club trained players, the maximum value that they will represent towards the salary cap is £100k. Hence someone like Jonny Lomax or Sam Tomkins could be paid £400k a season but only £100k of that counts on the cap.
This then rewards clubs that develop their own talent, rather than buy in superstars from elsewhere, as imports or bought in players would count 100% on the cap.

The championship salary cap will be increased to £900k, I understand its about £300k at present

Club academies will be restricted to just 10. This is interesting as if you have only 10 academies then those clubs in SL without an academy would not benefit from the club trained player salary cap exemption and therefore would be at a serious disadvantage. Of course this could be mitigated if the 12 team league consisted of 10 English clubs and 2 French clubs. Makes me wonder if this is in the RFL's thinking.
Clubs without pro academies would be linked to centres of excellence. These would be part time and in an educational environment.

Salary cap introduced for academies to prevent clubs from buying up all the junior talent from elsewhere eg Warrington.

You can read all the details now about the proposed league structure and in particular how the salary cap will work

www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/29 ... umentation

Here are some tasty morsels to engender debate

The salary cap at present is limited to 50% of a clubs income upto a finite level of £1.825 million pounds.

This is interesting as i'm sure many of us were of the understanding that the 50% turnover cap had been binned off. Maybe some clubs have been spinning a lie to fans.

Its proposal is that for club trained players, the maximum value that they will represent towards the salary cap is £100k. Hence someone like Jonny Lomax or Sam Tomkins could be paid £400k a season but only £100k of that counts on the cap.
This then rewards clubs that develop their own talent, rather than buy in superstars from elsewhere, as imports or bought in players would count 100% on the cap.

The championship salary cap will be increased to £900k, I understand its about £300k at present

Club academies will be restricted to just 10. This is interesting as if you have only 10 academies then those clubs in SL without an academy would not benefit from the club trained player salary cap exemption and therefore would be at a serious disadvantage. Of course this could be mitigated if the 12 team league consisted of 10 English clubs and 2 French clubs. Makes me wonder if this is in the RFL's thinking.
Clubs without pro academies would be linked to centres of excellence. These would be part time and in an educational environment.

Salary cap introduced for academies to prevent clubs from buying up all the junior talent from elsewhere eg Warrington.

www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... section=E1

It says here its the 1.6 I thought (E1.3.1) ...

www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/i ... section=E1

It says here its the 1.6 I thought (E1.3.1) ...