Its not really a fair comparison. Chelsea are "new" money just the same as City. No one knows whether they will dominate. Real however have won 31 League titles which counts as dominance in my book. Altho when you have a fascist leader in Franco meaning you can effectively steal one of the worlds best players (De Stefano) then perhaps a salary cap might not have helped with parity there anyway.

I like the idea of the cap. I like NFL and its cap is brilliant but that is in the context of essentially a cartel league and a draft system that tries to bring top and bottom together. Rugby, like football is not in that position so a parity creating cap cannot work as all it will mean is that your best players go to or at least consider another sport. I prefer the % of turnover cap myself to ensure teams are solvent. No loopholes and the current fine structure for any breaches. In those circumstances you are free to pay one superstar any amount below that level and we can see if it really is a team game.

heard that but its more than $190,000, they probably didnt include the marquee player allowance of $150,000 in that figure

GI didnt leave brisbane for $450,000 from souths

hell be on $600,000 at souths plus a car.

So are you accusing the Souths CEO of giving misleading figures to the media like he did on telly this morning?

Once again you're applying guesswork and hearsay saying Souths are including a $150,000 marquee figure.



You keep saying $600,000 because that's the figure the media keep saying. As it's $1.8m over three, but it's not. As I said before Richo was on radio saying he was paying him on a sliding scale from this season. I suspect that they'll offload a couple of older players at the end of this season and free up more cash to increase Inglis's "official" salary from Souths for 2012.

Fine with it all if it keeps our stars in our game.

GI didnt leave brisbane for less money and he was on $600,000 at brisbane.

OK mate. The CEO says he ain't, you say he is. I'll listen to you.