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| I think you entirely miss the point that the main aim of the salary cap was precisely to hold back clubs that would otherwise buy up all the best talent simply because they are better off.
It is a given that there will always be far lesser-supported clubs and the idea was to make it possible for them to be competitive on the pitch. To a large degree this has succeeded, especially as you can never actually eliminate the financial gulf between the have-nots and the have-fook-alls, and as the rules can limit direct overspending, but can never exclude creative 'other ways' of securing expensive players.
The salary cap is a bit like pouring oil on troubled waters, it is effective, but can only do so much. It is better than the alternative was.
However where you are fundamentally wrong is in saying the salary cap "encourages those that don't generate the income to spend money they haven't got ". This is nonsense. No club ever set out to bankrupt itself and "spend money it hasn't got", there may be a long history of over-ambition and financial mismanagement but where is this "encouragement"?
All teams, and especially the most successful ones, rely on financial largesse in the large part, not on gate receipts alone, important though they are. Many clubs are propped up by financial backers and to suggest (as you are doing) that wealthy benefactors should effectively be be banned is about as silly a suggestion as I've seen. I agree entirely that the existence of what have become commonly and irritatingly known as "sugar-daddies" puts the clubs they finance in a vulnerable position but without such people, SL of today would be little different from the Championship and I am pretty sure you know this.
And even then, the Championship clubs struggle financially because the demand for the standard of teams and for success invariably is a large gap away from the available gates and funds which are needed to achieve it. That seems to be true at all levels of sport.
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "Nor will anyone, unless the OP explains.
Tbf ME didn't, he goes on about Wakey fans. They could of course be from Rotterdam, or anywhere.
Or at all. Who did?
We weren't.
Nobody is or has.
No need for that. Why get personal? I'm happy to respond to the points he makes. See no reason to "have a go"?
That's what you get with being a Pop Tart, the filling is dangerously hot (or was, do they still make them?)
As I read the posts above, the implication was that there was something wrong with coming from Wakefield, AND based on that fact, a comment about his spelling.
I read that as a dig at Wakefield and the general education of said fans on this forum.
You are free to label us that way, but coming from Wakefield I feel honour bound to defend my City.
Not a big deal though. It's a shame the general baiting between Wakefield and Bulls fans has gone on so long.
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Others/combustable.gif Red Amber and Black Fantasy Rugby League Champion 2012.
By far the most sensible posts on this thread have come from mystic eddie. - copyright Ewwenorfolk 09.04.2013
Aye, and Eddie is hinting at it too. And, as we all know:
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| Quote: PopTart "As I read the posts above, the implication was that there was something wrong with coming from Wakefield, AND based on that fact, a comment about his spelling.
I read that as a dig at Wakefield and the general education of said fans on this forum.
You are free to label us that way, but coming from Wakefield I feel honour bound to defend my City.
Not a big deal though. It's a shame the general baiting between Wakefield and Bulls fans has gone on so long.'"
Dear me. Just a tad OTT here PopTart.
It was a clear joke and it really should be left at that. It was not intended to cause any offence and I must admit I am bemused that it has.
For the record, I live in a squat in central Scotland called Alloa. I am certainly in no position to therefore question the quality of education of anyone else.
P.S. If you have any difficulty reading and understanding any of the above then feel free to print it and bring it along to Odsal (Provident) the next time you are in town and someone there in RAB will explain it to you.
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| Quote: mystic eddie "Dear me. Just a tad OTT here PopTart.
It was a clear joke and it really should be left at that. It was not intended to cause any offence and I must admit I am bemused that it has.
For the record, I live in a squat in central Scotland called Alloa. I am certainly in no position to therefore question the quality of education of anyone else.
P.S. If you have any difficulty reading and understanding any of the above then feel free to print it and bring it along to Odsal (Provident) the next time you are in town and someone there in RAB will explain it to you.
I am outraged by your P.S.!
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| I guess I just saw it as I was passing through and jumped in, possibly, too soon.
I'll keep walking. Clearly nothing to see......sorry
***slumps off in an embarrassed sulk***
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| Quote: PopTart "I guess I just saw it as I was passing through and jumped in, possibly, too soon.
I'll keep walking. Clearly nothing to see......sorry
***slumps off in an embarrassed sulk***'"
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