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Quote: SmokeyTA "The salary doesnt bring up the quality of the league as a whole, it brings down the quality at the top. And getting rid of it would improve the quality at the top.'"


The salary cap increases quality by increasing competition, the driver of quality. Removing the cap would reduce competition resulting in a reduction in quality. Although removing the cap would make the relative quality of the top (or rich) teams better when compared to the other teams whilst reducing quality in absolute terms.

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Quote: SBR "The salary cap increases quality by increasing competition, the driver of quality. Removing the cap would reduce competition resulting in a reduction in quality. Although removing the cap would make the relative quality of the top (or rich) teams better when compared to the other teams whilst reducing quality in absolute terms.'"

No, again you have it backwards. Removing the cap would make the absolute quality improve, that much is obvious, bringing in and keeping better players makes for better teams and better games and a better quality.

The SC reduces quality at the top and stops the top improving at the level it naturally would. It reduces quality in both relative terms (not necessarily a bad thing) and absolute terms (always a bad thing).

If smaller clubs cant compete, well they shouldnt really be in the same competition should they?

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Quote: SmokeyTA "No, again you have it backwards. Removing the cap would make the absolute quality improve, that much is obvious, bringing in and keeping better players makes for better teams and better games and a better quality.'"


As you already said it is playing against quality players that improves the quality of players. Therefore you need quality throughout the league in order to improve overall quality. With inequality the quality of players will reduce.

Quote: SmokeyTA "The SC reduces quality at the top and stops the top improving at the level it naturally would. It reduces quality in both relative terms (not necessarily a bad thing) and absolute terms (always a bad thing).'"


Paying players more does not improve quality. The salary cap does nothing to reduce quality but does increase competition which drives up quality. The top teams can, and do, improve without increasing wages.

Quote: SmokeyTA "If smaller clubs cant compete, well they shouldnt really be in the same competition should they?'"


I'm not sure a one team competition would be that interesting though. We try to take money out of the equation so clubs focus on other ways to improve than throwing money at the best players. Instead they must work on youth development, fitness, tactics and innovations in these and other areas in order to be the best.

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Quote: SBR "As you already said it is playing against quality players that improves the quality of players. Therefore you need quality throughout the league in order to improve overall quality. With inequality the quality of players will reduce. '"
equality does not equal quality.
Quote: SBR "Paying players more does not improve quality. The salary cap does nothing to reduce quality but does increase competition which drives up quality. The top teams can, and do, improve without increasing wages.'"
You can persist with this red herring if you want but it has already been addressed. Paying the same player more doesnt improve that player but being able to pay more means you are able to attract a better quality of player which clearly and obviously does improve the league.

Quote: SBR "I'm not sure a one team competition would be that interesting though. We try to take money out of the equation so clubs focus on other ways to improve than throwing money at the best players. Instead they must work on youth development, fitness, tactics and innovations in these and other areas in order to be the best.'"
Why would we only have a one team competition? do we only have 17 quality players in Rugby League? of course not, it is nonsense for you to suggest only one team would be competitive. And we can work all we like on youth development, fitness, tactics and innovations but it makes not a jot of difference when the best rugby players arent playing SL. Our 3 best forwards arent playing in SL but we are employing distinctly average players like Korkidas and Lovegrove, We have lost Chris Ashton to RU yet can find a place for Semi Tadulala. By taking money out of the equation we take ourselves out of the equation when in the market for the best rugby players. The effort we need to be putting in to youth development, fitness, tactics and innovations is only enough to win a lower quality league which doesnt contain the best players.

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We have finally seen the cap equalise the competition to a point where we finished with five teams that had a realistic chance of winning the final, and you would want to take that away?!

I don't believe cap restrictions are costing us players. Lack of money in the game may well be, but not the cap. As our competition equalises, as we get to the point that any team can win on any day, it ultimately becomes more attractive to spectators, viewers and sponsors. As that starts to happen, that's when the money comes in, and the cap can rise.
But lift the cap now, and make an SL where three quarters of the league are cannon fodder feeder clubs for the rest, and that will never happen.

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Quote: Richie "We have finally seen the cap equalise the competition to a point where we finished with five teams that had a realistic chance of winning the final, and you would want to take that away?!

I don't believe cap restrictions are costing us players. Lack of money in the game may well be, but not the cap. As our competition equalises, as we get to the point that any team can win on any day, it ultimately becomes more attractive to spectators, viewers and sponsors. As that starts to happen, that's when the money comes in, and the cap can rise.
But lift the cap now, and make an SL where three quarters of the league are cannon fodder feeder clubs for the rest, and that will never happen.'"

And who were the 4 teams that finished above them? Warrington, St Helens, Wigan and Huddersfield arent struggling for money, Leeds arent competing with them because of the SC and they cant only compete with Leeds because of the SC.

Three quarters of the League arent cannon fodder, a small minority is, Leeds, Saints, Wigan, Wire, Hudds, Les Catalans, Hull FC, could all comfortably spend more, thats half the league right there, then you have the likes of Bradfor and Hull KR, who arent rolling money but arent out with begging bowls either. Add in Widnes with their backing from O'connor and we have 10 of 14 clubs able to compete in a non SC world. The 4 clubs left are 4 clubs who cant spend the SC even now, we cant hold our game back waiting for those clubs to catch up.

Besides, there is no law that means because a club can spend more, it has to.

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Quote: SmokeyTA "And who were the 4 teams that finished above them? Warrington, St Helens, Wigan and Huddersfield arent struggling for money, Leeds arent competing with them because of the SC and they cant only compete with Leeds because of the SC.

Three quarters of the League arent cannon fodder, a small minority is, Leeds, Saints, Wigan, Wire, Hudds, Les Catalans, Hull FC, could all comfortably spend more, thats half the league right there, then you have the likes of Bradfor and Hull KR, who arent rolling money but arent out with begging bowls either. Add in Widnes with their backing from O'connor and we have 10 of 14 clubs able to compete in a non SC world. The 4 clubs left are 4 clubs who cant spend the SC even now, we cant hold our game back waiting for those clubs to catch up.'"


I didn't say three quarters of the league are cannon fodder. I said they would be if we removed the salary cap.

I think you over estimate the wealth of Catalans and Hull, and forget that Huddersfield and Warrington are very dependant on their owners, which is not sustainable. The rest would be even further behind if we removed the salary cap.

I can't understand why you still can't see the affect the salary cap has had in spreading talent around the league.

Quote: SmokeyTA "Besides, there is no law that means because a club can spend more, it has to.'"


With no cap in place, they would have to, to be able to compete.

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Quote: Richie "I didn't say three quarters of the league are cannon fodder. I said they would be if we removed the salary cap.

I think you over estimate the wealth of Catalans and Hull, and forget that Huddersfield and Warrington are very dependent on their owners, which is not sustainable. The rest would be even further behind if we removed the salary cap.

I can't understand why you still can't see the affect the salary cap has had in spreading talent around the league.

With no cap in place, they would have to, to be able to compete.'"


Once again, who exactly are you arguing with? Nobody, as far as I can tell is saying have NO cap in place. The OP asked a question about an increase, and I've suggested restructuring it so that it's focused mainly on turnover and tough squad limits.

Is that discussion unreasonable? Are you convinced that we've got the cap exactly right as it stands? For that matter, taking your logic - is it not too high already? If you think the cap equalizes competition and improves standards, why not lower it to the level the weakest club can afford?

Your argument that equalizing competition and raising standards go hand in hand is nonsense. There's practically no correlation. You can pick examples in sports all over world 'supporting' one side of the argument or the other. The primary driver for high standards is a limited number of berths in the top competition and a large pool of players very keen to win those berths. The better that ratio, the higher the standard. We'll only genuinely improve standards by increasing that pool of players clamouring for the top berths and I'm afraid that possible fame and (limited) fortune play a major role in inspiring people to fight for those places.

I play cricket in a very tight league - this year, with 3 games left, any team could have been relegated or promoted. But guess what? The standard is universally s**te.

There was one year when my skills (and motivation for that matter) improved a lot (in my case from worse-to-bad, but hey). We had a pro in the side from Indian first-class cricket who taught us a lot and inspired us to improve. We got the most out of it because he was at our nets 3 times a week, but in a small way, other players in other teams got the chance to bowl at a top-class batsman, and learned that some (most) of the stuff you get away with bowling at amateurs doesn't work at a higher level. Hopefully this had a small improvement on them as bowlers. Guess what? Other teams whined about it. They were perfectly entitled to have a pro too, but couldn't afford it. ( In fact, neither could we, we were very lucky that the guy was in England to work that summer on some other cricket-based scheme and we happened to be the nearest club - he played for free). Equality? No. A small contribution to improving standards? Definitely.

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To make the game more successful and widely known we need more general advertising and making more cap space available to encourage any up and coming athlete to choose rugby league as their sport so putting an increasingly entertaining product onto the field,
Let the richer clubs spend more money on their cap say up to a mamimum of £500,000 on the condition that every £1 spent an equal amount is given to the RFL towards their advertising campaigns to promote the game.

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Quote: muddyboots "To make the game more successful and widely known we need more general advertising and making more cap space available to encourage any up and coming athlete to choose rugby league as their sport so putting an increasingly entertaining product onto the field,
Let the richer clubs spend more money on their cap say up to a mamimum of £500,000 on the condition that every £1 spent an equal amount is given to the RFL towards their advertising campaigns to promote the game.'"


Pretty much agree. Personally I'd like it to be more robustly structured so that any extra (say your £500k) was specifically only used to fund 'superstars' not to just beef up the squad with mulitple mediocre players.

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Quote: Chorlton RL "Its very rare for sporting clubs to make a profit, they're not expected to do it.'"


All you have to do is look at all those bankrupt, skint sporting clubs in USA. Strangely enough American Football, hockey, basketball and baseball all operate within a cap.

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If we move away from RL and just look at Business as a whole, we find that the most creative and successful business sectors tend to be those were there are a significant number of similarly sized organisations able to compete on a mainly even keel with each other. This drives them to look at all possible avenues to move their business forward.

Now compare those business sectors to those that have a single or limited number of all powerful near monopolistic suppliers. What you see then is an organisation that moves at a much slower pace.

With the Salary cap the aim is to create a dynamic internal playing market, one that will create coaches who wont win the league by buying the talent but will win it by developing players and creating innovative systems to keep ahead of the rest. Players themselves wont be able to merely overun opponents they will have to work hard on developing their game and playing at the best of their ability. Examples of this are the NFL, NRL, NBA.
These sports enjoy huge popularity and get massive TV ratings

Now look at the monopolistic league with no salary cap and one or two all powerful clubs. With this there is no need to develop players and innovate on and off the pitch, all that matters is the wealth to buy up anyone that may threaten your hegemony. The end result is a league with a small cadre of talented players all with one or two clubs, and low playing standards because those talented players dont even need to break sweat to win games. The classic examples of this are the Scottish Premier League and Rugby League in the mid 1980's to mid 1990's. These sports become regarded as jokes and see a decline in popularity and TV ratings.

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thats a very selective choice on non SL leagues isnt it? what about the Premier League? La Liga? almost all of soccer? These sports are massive and worldwide bigger than the NFL, NRL, and NBA, they enjoy more money coming into the game, bigger tv ratings and premier league is the most saleable sports league on the planet by a fairly comfortable distance.

Besides, i dont think anyone would be arguing against the SC if it was in the hundreds of millions of pounds like the NFL and NBA and allowed us to bring in the very best players from around the world.

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Quote: cod'ead "All you have to do is look at all those bankrupt, skint sporting clubs in USA. Strangely enough American Football, hockey, basketball and baseball all operate within a cap.'"


It's unfair to compare with US sports because of the college draft system, which is pretty much unique in world sport and provides a constant influx of talent into all of their professional sports leagues on an annual basis at no cost to any of the teams. There is no academy system in any professional league over there and teams do not develop their own young players prior to drafting them. The exception is the MLS, mainly because soccer is the only sport that is played to a higher level outside the US

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Quote: The Chair Maker "If we move away from RL and just look at Business as a whole, we find that the most creative and successful business sectors tend to be those were there are a significant number of similarly sized organisations able to compete on a mainly even keel with each other. This drives them to look at all possible avenues to move their business forward.

Now compare those business sectors to those that have a single or limited number of all powerful near monopolistic suppliers. What you see then is an organisation that moves at a much slower pace.

With the Salary cap the aim is to create a dynamic internal playing market, one that will create coaches who wont win the league by buying the talent but will win it by developing players and creating innovative systems to keep ahead of the rest. Players themselves wont be able to merely overun opponents they will have to work hard on developing their game and playing at the best of their ability. Examples of this are the NFL, NRL, NBA.
These sports enjoy huge popularity and get massive TV ratings

Now look at the monopolistic league with no salary cap and one or two all powerful clubs. With this there is no need to develop players and innovate on and off the pitch, all that matters is the wealth to buy up anyone that may threaten your hegemony. The end result is a league with a small cadre of talented players all with one or two clubs, and low playing standards because those talented players dont even need to break sweat to win games. The classic examples of this are the Scottish Premier League and Rugby League in the mid 1980's to mid 1990's. These sports become regarded as jokes and see a decline in popularity and TV ratings.'"


I don't think you'll find many people on here that want the Cap abolished altogether but although the aim of evening the competition is applaudable, the reality is that all the Cap has ended up doing is hold back the stronger teams and bring them down to the level of the weaker clubs, rather raising the standard of weaker teams, resulting in a weaker competition as a whole. There is no incentive for anyone to improve anything with the way the cap is curently structured

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St.Helens-Hull KR
Sat 8th Mar
SL
17:30
Catalans-Leeds
Sun 9th Mar
SL
17:30
Warrington-Wakefield
SL
17:30
Wigan-Huddersfield
Thu 20th Mar
SL
20:00
Salford-Huddersfield
Fri 21st Mar
SL
20:00
St.Helens-Warrington
This is an inplay table and live positions can change.
Mens Betfred Super League XXVIII ROUND : 1
 PLDFADIFFPTS
Wigan 29 768 338 430 48
Hull KR 29 731 344 387 44
Warrington 29 769 351 418 42
Leigh 29 580 442 138 33
Salford 28 556 561 -5 32
St.Helens 28 618 411 207 30
 
Catalans 27 475 427 48 30
Leeds 27 530 488 42 28
Huddersfield 27 468 658 -190 20
Castleford 27 425 735 -310 15
Hull FC 27 328 894 -566 6
LondonB 27 317 916 -599 6
This is an inplay table and live positions can change.
Betfred Championship 2024 ROUND : 1
 PLDFADIFFPTS
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Toulouse 26 765 388 377 37
Bradford 28 723 420 303 36
York 29 695 501 194 32
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Doncaster 26 498 619 -121 25
Halifax 26 509 650 -141 22
Batley 26 422 591 -169 22
Swinton 28 484 676 -192 20
Barrow 25 442 720 -278 19
Whitehaven 25 437 826 -389 18
Dewsbury 27 348 879 -531 4
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