Quote ="Tigerade"We are raising the cap over the next 3 years - shouldn't that be the aim of keeping our best players financially happy ? The marquee player rule was put in place for recruitment purposes initially wasn't it like Pritchard and Sandow ?'"
That is how it was "sold" to the public but, SL will not attract any current NRL stars.
The best we can hope for are players that may have played SOO but are no longer quite good enough and that fancy spending a few seasons in England (or France) but, anyone who thinks Billy Slater or his ilk may be coming to SL are kidding themselves.
We still get back to the situation where it is better to have Tomkins (if not injured) and Williams playing in SL, than it is to have them playing Union or in the NRL.
Having said that, raising the cap further would solve the problem and we wouldnt have to have the marquee rule.