Can someone point me to this rule that banned all other clubs except wigan from having a pro team back in the day?

Or could everyone else just not be bothered?

Oh and good luck to the doctor. Loopholes are there to be exploited. If you dont as a management team you are not doing your job im afraid.

Not couldn't be bothered just couldn't afford it, every club didn't have a multi millionaire bookmaker in the hot seat.

Dont care what club or who owns it there are rules to be followed, If the Doctor can't understand that then he should take his cash & spend it on Football, We suffered years of big spending Wigan dominating the competition & nearly killing the game off (& just about going bust in the prosess) The man must realise that there is more than one team in a league & he needs the other clubs to make a competition. The most succsesfull team sports in the world all have wage caps to protect the competition NFL, NBA, Hockey, NRL, Union, even wendyball is bringing in spending rules(at last) & we have one cashed up newcomer who thinks he can ignore the rest of the sports world. As for others bending the rules they better watch their backs as it only takes one former employee with a grievance to blow the lid & it will all come tumbling down (Melbourne a case in point).

ohh the irony, you can't argue it was unfair and unjust when Wigan spent a lot of money on their roster and then support Dr Insolvency spending above the cap.

Very true, the Premier League is debt ridden, it's a financial double which will explode due to the unsustainable actions of club owners.

Robson and Jerome?

I'm not arguing about what Wigan did I'm just saying Wigan fans and fans from Warrington can't complain about what Marwan Koukash wants when Warrington have done it for years and a big part of Wigans history was based on big money signings.

I often wonder whether the salary cap would stand up to legal challenge. As others have said, anything of this nature will always have loopholes, it is like the tax avoidance v evasion debate. Koukash is doing nothing wrong by being honest about it.

An interesting research paper on the topic, restraint of trade tends to be the topic of legal arguments against the cap.
[urlhttp://eprints.jcu.edu.au/4659/1/4659_Davies_2006.pdf[/url

Thanks, have saved that on my laptop for a rainy day. Just finishing a 5,000 word essay on European Business Law, head is in too much of a pickle to read it tonight!

Perhaps our fielding of 14 players (for all of 35 seconds) is a pointer to the way in which the cap could be improved?

I propose for next season that the number of players on the park be governed by the total salary paid to those players. So you can field 13 stars or 25 under 21s or any mixture in between - its every bit as sensible as the RFL's current restructuring proposal.