So will the champ1 salary cap be raised to SL level to give them a fighting chance?

you could just read the rfl document.

but those that dont have the required attention span

the Championship salary cap will be raised to £900k.

This will put them within touching distance of the lower end of SL clubs who will be running around £1.2 mil or there abouts.

The question is which current championship clubs can afford that?

A hell of a lot of super league clubs can't afford that.

Then a surprising number are spending far more than that ...

It does make it more possible for a top championship club to compete with SuperLeague clubs.

But my worry is if great clubs like Fev, Halifax, Leigh etc try to spend up to full cap, they'll firtly not be able to afford it and go bust, or waste it on wage inflation for players that arn't worth it.

Do any ch1 clubs have full time squads currently?

and who decides which club only spend 1.2m and if they spend less are they going to get less funding?

The clubs themselves decide how much they will spend, up to full salary cap amount.

I think most if not all SL clubs are running at more than 75% cap. The reason we are reducing to 12 is because we can't sustain 14. But then aren't we spending that money even more thinly by bringing the championship clubs cap up (which we should do long term, but through extra revenue income) This is my biggest gripe, I don't think this system can be properly financed. As someone else mentioned, what if fax spend the 900k cap, but the relegated teams are Catalans, London, Salford and Cas. Not exactly bumper gates. Is the SL cap actually coming down or are we using the two relegated teams money to finance it? Still don't see how this is helping the game when the NRL is advancing at a rate of knots!

The two shares (the relegated teams this year) in tv money aren't just being given to the super league clubs, rather split through the championship. The teams coming first and second in the championship will receive "at least 50% of a full super league share" (from the September review) - receive half the money, spend half the cap.

It doesn't specifically help. What happens to the top 8 will do that supposedly (though as I've said, what happens to youth development to clubs outside that top 8 is my major concern with this system)

From what l can gather, Salary Caps are made from Brown envelopes, a pair of scissors, and some stcky tape

Some clubs in the Championship are turning bigger profits that SL clubs.

Personally I think the cap is the wrong boat to float this on. It should be a break even cap, where profit and loss are rewarded and penalized.

Then clubs can spend within their ability.

Salary caps in UK sport are unnecessary fads.

I'd scrap the salary cap completely.

Replace it with clear and strict penalties for if an entity owning a club suffers an insolvency event. Eg go bust and you will be relegated to the bottom division. Also a limit on the number of players a club can have registered at any one time.


If the owner of Salford or anybody else wants to put money in to bring Billy Slater, Paul Gallen, Owen Farrell or anybody else to RL in this country, that would be great for the game.

Sadly the game is littered with clubs who can't be trusted. How would it look if the rfl had to kick out 3 or 4 clubs due to overspending, not to mention the gap between the haves and have nots would be massive and make 60-4 score line regular occurrences.

This sounds like the days just before SL was brokered by Uncle Mo, when the Mighty Wigan All Stars took the game to the brink and moved in with their footballing neighbours.

With the pressures of promotion and relegation many clubs will stretch themselves, either protecting top flight status or chasing the dream.
The round ball game has many examples and although the cap is nowhere near perfect, it does give some control.
The best way around this could be to exempt 1 or 2 players from the cap.