Quote: EHW "It is perfectly possible for something to be both LEGAL in a court of law, and against the RFL Operational Rules.
No idea whether it is in this case or not, but just because a court has OK'd something, it doesn't mean there isn't a breach of some other rules.'"
Its perfectly possible to be in line with the RFL Operational Rules and still in breach - do you not remember Wigans "breaking the spirit of the cap"?
It seems, judging by the tweet below
The wider issue would be clubs abusing the rule (in the exempt from cap value calculations section)
the Gross value of any bonus payments that may Accrue to the Player during the Salary Cap Year if he wins the annual Man-of-Steel award (or any other similar individual award) or any Man-of-the-Match awards in that Salary Cap Year;
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