Despite supporting a team that would no doubt benefit from the the salary cap been abolished, I sincerley hope it doesn't. The difference between the top and the bottom is already too big, the only way to get a decent, competitive league (like the NRL) is if the gap between bottom and top is minimal. As more and more teams begin to spend up to cap, this is starting to work, ending the cap now would be stupid and lead to times like the 90s with one team dominating.

depends what it was replaced with. There would be any number of possible outcomes dependent on many different factors. Though an outright collapse simply wouldnt happen, regardless of some peoples scaremongering.

There have been some stupid ideas on here lately.

Abolish the overseas quota and now abolish the cap. Some people must have a bit too much time on their hands

Suffer!

How is wining GF’s & CC’s suffering.

Every club being financially secure?

Give your head a shake, do you think the likes of Warrington, Huddersfield & London would be financially secure, without their incredibly wealthy benefactors?

As for him being sick of seeing the ‘little’ clubs being looked after, it wasn’t long since Warrington were one of those said ‘little’ clubs & now they’re have a successful spell, he’s advocating the Wigan philosophy.

The question you should be asking is what would abolishing the salary cap give us that would warrant the change?

The chance to compete for the very best rugby players in the world improving the quality of player and improving the quality of the league.

But surely its having a Salary Cap which needs to be justified rather than not having it.

So what you are saying is you would like to see a similar scenario as the Premiership,or Scottish Premiership where a few elite clubs battle it out amongst themselves,leaving the rest to pick up the crumbs?

Personally instead of abolishing the salary cap i'd just have a a 5 player exclusion.

5 players who you could pay whatever you want, so in theory we could attract players like Thurston and Marshall over but at the same time stop rich clubs filling their squads with the best players.

Plus certain players who don't get in to the pay bracket of one club may be paid more at another club.

Wigan fans really can't see the wood for the trees can they? Do you not realise the salary cap was brought in to protect you? Wigan's 'glory' years were a fraud and they spent themselves into bankruptcy buying their trophies and any player capable of breathing.

Now after a few years of failing to dominate, Wigan are getting uppety about the cap and their fans are claiming it's holding them back

The only time I would want the cap to go is if the clubs can only spend income generated by the club, no borrowing, no directors loans, If the owners want to put cash in it must be a gift not a loan secured against the ground. If any club goes into debt then all contracts with players should be null & void & the owners banned from the game. The only debt clubs may have would be against ground improvment & that debt should be approved by the RFL & other clubs. We have to get away from using debt to win trophies as Wigan did to the detrement of every other club.

Doing away with the salary cap would be a bad idea imo but it does need amending. I was in favour of removing club trained players from the cap, but you’d still need some mechanism to stop the wealthy clubs from stock piling all of the best juniors, so here’s my amended suggestion:

Increase the cap limit to £2m, allow a maximum of £1m to be spent on non club trained players & scrap the quota limits.

This would represent a significant cap increase but restrict the ability to buy in players & offer an incentive for clubs to develop their own talent. If a club wished to spend more than £1m on club trained players they could do so, with any spend over £1m being removed from the non club trained allowance.

This would also remove the need for any quota restrictions imo (which aren’t really working & the cause of much animosity). The reduced budget available for non club trained players (along with higher earning potential in the NRL) will have a natural effect on overseas numbers.

This is all probably flawed in ways I haven’t thought of yet, but I think it would represent an improvement on the current situation.

And where is this money coming from to pay for us to compete for the very best players in the world?



We have it and it works so why does it need to be justified? Surely to even challenge the salary cap you need to have an alternative that survives close scrutiny first or else you change to something that might not work which would be suicidal.