It wouldn't.

Brisbane are nearly as far behind Souths as we are. Saints forwards got man handled and ours are smaller.

Over reactions aren't needed by Saints fans tonight. It's tough to take but the issue doesn't sit at Saints door, it sits at the door of the RFL. Our league had been allowed to fall further behind then it's ever been.

Yeah it would have finished Wigan 0 v 60 Souths

Hopefully this will be a wake up call for some at the rfl to bring in some new rules/ up the cap more generally as well.

Fair point mate. Good post.

Very decent posts from you tonight Nicky. Out of interest, what would you do to close the gap and improve Super League? Is it just a simple case of increasing the salary cap? If so, is there not a risk we'd lose several clubs as the crowds and sponsorship just isn't sufficient to make them sustainable.

this rule is currently in place in the championship
The intention behind this allowance is to reward Clubs for developing (and investing in the development of) Players.
Any Club Trained Player shall be deemed to have a maximum Salary Cap Value of £40,000. Any amount paid to the Player in excess of £40,000 shall be disregarded in calculating his Salary Cap Value.

A ‘Club Trained Player’ is a player who was on the Club’s register for any 3 full Seasons before the end of the Season in which he ceases to be eligible by age to play at Under 21 level.
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It was lesson in Rugby League. Souths were untouchable.

Nope. It was supposed to be, but clubs refused to vote it in for this year. I'm hoping to God the rfl don't let them dig their feet in too long and it's due to come in next year...

100k is also too high - should be 100k normally, 75k upon an England knight appearance and 60k after a full England cap.

That and a cap increase to £2m in 2016, and an agreement to increase it by ~100k per year for every year after that for 5 years is step 2

Stuff the Aussies and stuff their salary caps.

We beat Wigan in a Grand Final last year with a young side and then the aussie champs came over to play us in our new stadium, we sold out and we made some money out of it.

Come on, let's not get too down hearted. On the showing of Wigan and Warrington, there is not this gulf people are talking about between the SL and the NRL. Brisbane and St George will both fly back knowing they've been in a game as intense as their own league.

We know what rugby league is like sometimes. If one team doesn't do the basics right, and the other team gets it all right, then they will potentially pummel them.

Last season, Catalans tore us a new backside at their place. They turned up and we didn't. That 42-0 score line wasn't a reflection of the gulf between the two teams in general.

These things happen, it's not nice to be on the receiving end. It's just what happened on the night unfortunately. I guarantee South Sydney will have a few big defeats put on them this season because it's impossible to get it right in every game The lads will learn an awful lot from it.

Good post. It was fine margins. We had identified our starts as a problem but we hadn't fixed the problem. We didn't have the personnel to recover. But we came so close to scoring twice (held up/dropped ball) - had just one of those stuck our confidence would have grown and things might have been different.

The Dogs conceded 30 points to Souths in the GF and they're in the same league. This was just a bad night for Saints, and disappointing for the fans not least IMO because I thought we now had a better defence than that!

Lomax has lost so much pace it's unreal. Massively out of position as well.

I think we are good super league side but we have NO world class players so when we come up against teams like Souths it sticks out like sore thumb. Wilkin was awful and again shows he's ok in halves in super league but not against world class teams.

Not going to go into this in depth but ......Mose!

The gap between NRL and super league is as big as ever. At times in the first half we held our own but the min they upper their gear we looked so poor.

I expected a hammering and we got one.

I didn,t think we were that far away with our pack it was just our backline that was exposed as men against boys. With the execption of Percival all our backs were fully exposed for all to see not enough size, stamina, strength speed etc. Johnny Lomax looked a little boy lost last night.

Also we must not forget that this NRL team where head and shoulders above all the teams in the comp and put 30 points on a very good Canterbury Bulldogs side in the grand final.

If we ask where do we go from here, we don't, I can't see any superleague side having a back line like the Rabbitoh's at there disposal, there backline would probably demolish an all england side let alone a superleague one.
Could we have beaten St George or Brisbane probably yes, but the reality check is that not many teams will beat Sydney Rabbitoh's never mind a superleague one.