Quote: Pepe "To certain extent, you may be right. But spending up to the salary cap would be a far more important factor, as the squad would have to change dramatically anyway. More often than not, clubs struggled after being promoted via P&R and usually finished around the bottom end. There are very few exceptions. So, this doesn't really back up what you are saying. The main reason why Widnes fans think we will be at the bottom of the league has more to do with the hopeless coach we have in place and not the squad, which has largely been discarded. What chemistry the squad has will come down to good coaching and the quality of the players recruited, and not how a very different bunch of players faired in the Championship.
I actually would bring P&R back tomorrow and raise the salary cap in the Championship to £500,000 (based on club turnover and profits) in order to ease transition.'"
I agree with what you say about the salary cap about the Championship. I think alot of it should be done to a percentage of turnover to dictate what salary cap you should have. If your club is ready for SL because it is a better business than other clubs then you will be able to spend more on your team therefore will still have to perform well on the field and also improve your club. I think this would be a better balance of improving your club and still being competitive on the field.
Although we have been cheating for the last 4 or so years because we decided to put a muppet with an massive ego as our chairman, the foundation of our 2009 winning team were already playing in NL2 the season before. The Championship player of the year was Andy Ellis he was playing in 2008. Top try scorer james nixon was playing in 2008, and his centre was also playing in 2008. All 3 of these were playing in 2008 and were the main reason we won the league. I think this would also be the case from Championship to SL.
You could talk about P&R and salary cap ect for hours but in the end, the RFL makes the decisions.
