I understand what you are saying but a 30% title percentage is pretty good - there was a war in that time frame an no one else is close. Regardless...I think the concept of parity is absolutely not what the salrary cap is trying to do. The quote "any given sunday" isnt an attempt to say everyone is mediocre altho the implication is that the "talent" is spread. Rather the intent is twofold
1) ensure you see the talent. There is nothing worse than seeing good players sitting on the bench on the off chance of an injury to a star when they are easily good enough to play first grade
2) The most important thing is the competition. All teams want to win but if you imagine a world where you win every game it gets sickly sweet and you do not appreciate. Much better to have close contests across the board and even upsets. If you can only win by budgets then thats not exactly showing the talent of your coaching staff to complement the players is it? Instead the key is to sustain a team over time by building from within.

Those, financial viability for all clubs, and a fair interpretation of the rules are the only things I want from the stewards of the game. The rest is down to the teams. If someone can provide a decent model other than a salary cap based approach then Im all for seeing its merits.

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.