If we banned everyone for not sticking to the topic, there would be no one left. Ignore his childish ramblings.

The trouble is we live in a capitalist society and sugar daddies compete against one another in all big team sports; football, American football, cricket- whatever. My local teams Wigan, Saints and Warrington all exist because of sugar daddies so this current system has made no difference to us at all in that regard. This is also the same scenario with my local football teams in as far as Manchester and Liverpool.
The marquee system is rubbish if all we can do to attract a Ben Barba player is to wait for one to be banned - so for me the issue is to raise the salary cap & create a better quality product to attract viewers and advertisers. In the 80 & 90s we had decent advertisers and recently, well it's been abysmal. Would you want to fund Superleague? Well if the answer is no then something has to change. We walked into the summer rugby sky deal thinking things would get better but be honest with yourself....
We need to attract big backers to the sport but look at how people ridicule a backer who tried in a difficult area i.e. " the good doctor".

You make very valid points, however that has bugger all to do with the salary cap, and more to do with the imbeciles we have in charge of the sport!

Its a tough choice and what you have written in this thread is very true...everyone wants the top quality, to see the best players and the NRL has a much higher cap...if you want the best you have to pay....you get what you pay for.
But some people also don't want the salary cap at the same time since,lets just face it,their clubs and attendances just don't have the depth to support it....so they whine and complain (Leigh would be a good example).
The simple truth is we need to increase the salary cap to be near or at NRL levels...people can't have their cake and eat it too....spoiled brats just having a tantrum really.

I'll have some fries with that please.

I'm reminded of the widnes player applauding James Child's decision making here.

And you’re not Jean?.. Pathetic

the Halifax statement is a real eye opener

Batley, Fev, Halifax & now Hunslet all spilling the beans on Lenagan & Co .......

1895 anyone ?

300 anti expansionist idiots slag off Canadian and French rugby. 3 pro expansionsits support it and are then claimed to have the same ip. Grow up. There is a thread at the top of the forum about it

Regards

King James

Bless, calm down Queen James..... Pro Expansion Idiot

Quote: kobashi " The myth that higher salary cap will bring in NRL stars needs to stop'" This is absolutely correct. The gap between the NRL and Super League is only going to get bigger financially. There is no way Super League will ever be able to attract the world’s best players from the NRL again. Even with a $9.1 million (£5.1 million) salary cap, the NRL is set to run with $45 million surplus this year. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/ ... a7f2c593fa

Quote: kobashi " The myth that higher salary cap will bring in NRL stars needs to stop'" This is absolutely correct. The gap between the NRL and Super League is only going to get bigger financially. There is no way Super League will ever be able to attract the world’s best players from the NRL again. Even with a $9.1 million (£5.1 million) salary cap, the NRL is set to run with $45 million surplus this year. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/ ... a7f2c593fa

What are you talking about ?

First of all, how many clubs are spending the full cap AND using the marquee players exemption ?
Also, how exactly do you propose that we match the spend on the NRL clubs.

I know that you are "new to RL" or, maybe just a pseudo Canadian but, really

Like it or not, there are maybe 4 SL clubs that could realistically spend the cap + the marquee players and unless you have a magic wand or a Kerry Packer type character that is happy to throw £millions at the sport, it just isnt going to happen.

We keep chopping and changing the structure, number of clubs in the top flight etc and the reality is that the sport is just not attractive to the wider public and until we can fin the answer as to why not, RL will remain a small time sport that just says that it's "the greatest game".

The same ip/multiple log in lie got boring a long time ago. It’s all the flatcap fools have.