Have been wondering when we'd hear anything about McNamara's England future? Could it be he's leaving?

I know not exactly "meltdown" but I doubt whatever the news is that it will cause that exaggerated claim.

bulls force salary cap row!

total over reaction from the headline makers, sounds like the bradford club are either struggling again financially or spitting the dummy out over leighs' spending!

IIRC Bradford pretty much said they couldn't continue spending in 2016 what they were in 2015. I remember it because it put James Lowes petulant and rather childish outburst just after losing the deciding game with Wakefield (I just can't use the term "Million Pound Game", it's horrific) into a bit more context and could maybe see how he'd gone from favouring the system early in the season to being dead set against it, if he'd have to downgrade his squad if they didn't get promoted.

So I wouldn't be suprised if they're now not happy with Leigh being able to spend more when they either can't or aren't willing to match it and keep up.

Newspaper trails story with hyperbole and enigmatic hints - what happened next will amaze you.

Nice bit of speculation but totally wrong .

Story is actually about Salford and payments to players bradfords only involvement is we asked rhetorically why investigation was dragging on so long.

rfl in a transfer shocker!

another brush under the carpet from red hall?

I had heard that a player had 2 contracts - one paid by the club and the other paid by another business owned by the club owner. If true and done to break the salary cap I hope the club is hammered and the owner asked to leave the game. Not sure this is the story in the paper as I have not seen it.

it does look like another melbourne scenario, but we know the rfl dont have the balls to follow the nrls' verdict and punishment as it shows them in a poor light too

It's just another over-hyped story to sell a sports newspaper. This kind of stuff does the game no favours...

So it doent say Tony P was paid by 2 sperate organisations?

Question is though, what happens if Salford get a points deduction and didn't make it to 0 before super eights kick in? RFL need to think long and hard how to deal with this situation.

Not if the allegations about 2 contracts are true it's not.
If they're true it's a very big RL story.

They'd be bottom, as per us last year, and have ages to prepare for the middle 8's, which will send Leigh into meltdown. The whole of the Championship will be molten.

Agree.
I doubt the RFL have thought about how the new system would affect points deductions in general. If a club gets a points deduction but still makes the top 8 then it's ok, they still feel the effect of that punishment.

But if a club is unlikely to make the top 8, like Salford, Widnes or Wakefield, then a points deduction has very little effect on them.

Maybe there needs to be a process whereby part of any points deduction is only applied during the 8's. For instance with a 6 point deduction, 4 points could be applied prior to the 8's and 2 points deducted as soon as the 8's start. Or maybe only 1 point if 2 is deemed too harsh.