Quote Him="Him"You've put forward the argument that the salary cap is easily challenged legally for quite a while now. Yet lots of different sports in different countries operate one. If it was so easily challenged why hasn't it been?
Whether it's the NRL in Australia, Union in France, the massive U.S. sports or all 4 professional team sports in the UK, they all seem to manage with a salary cap.
But well done for trying to deflect the debate away from whether people participating in a competition have to abide by certain rules and regulations, like RL players do. If they want to participate in SL they have to abide by those rules.'"
There is specific anti-trust legislation in the US to deal with it. I.e it is accepted to be a restraint of trade but whilst the unions agree to it through the CBA (and many, many other boring things) they allow it.
Besides, both Australia and the US have different laws to us.
UEFA have basically admitted they couldn't even try to implement a straight salary cap, and as such have gone for financial fair play, which itself is being challenged, and UEFA have folded faster than the world speed origami champion making a paper tiger. People within RU including some club owners have publicly said they don't believe the SC to be legal and you will find many within RU accusing certain clubs of ignoring the SC and not being punished.
Im not moving the debate away from whether people in a competition have to abide by certain rules and regulations. Of course they do. So long as those rules and regulations themselves are legal and enforceable. You could not force a player to disclose their partners financial information without their consent because to do so would be illegal. You couldn't force a players partner to disclose that information because you are nothing but a governing body and hold no authority over that person. The idea the RFL could demand a player provide someone else's financial information is nuts.
As for the reason why such a case hasn't been brought yet, two reasons, firstly, when one is threatened very quickly governing bodies capitulate and bring in some kind of new allowance, and secondly, when it comes to RL, the figures you would be talking about would be relatively minimal, its not really in the players interests to start bringing cases costing hundreds of thousands of pounds to gain amounts in tens of thousands of pounds, if you were the owner of a club with deep pockets......... it might never even come to light.
