The truth was always destined to come out, its definitely not an isolated incident with Salford but has gained more publicity with the way Marwan has gone about his business.

Most of the players will be reluctant to make a huge issue due to the Tax implications.

The truth will never come out based on the fact most SL clubs have been doing this for years. The reason this surfaced was because of the court case but you cant tell me that many other clubs are bung free - its a standing joke.

Is that an assumption/hearsay or do you have the hard evidence to support this claim?

"According to wiki"
"could be"
"may not"
"I might be wrong"

Pulitzer prize winning stuff this , keep it up ...

as for the story from the Brighouse Trade Rag ,its not much better- let them disclose who actually leaked the letter from Green , if it wasn't Green , and who are these two ' Leading Figures 'from Superleague , lets not stop there , disclose the players agents who will have been party to ' contract negotiation's '

20 point deduction





that's 10 wins, you won't win 10 games in 2 seasons.

FIFAs position was that because clubs played in THEIR COMPETITION they had the right to keep a players registration at the end of a contract. As the courts ruled it was unfair practice that allowed players to move.
Which is why I said the position that some take that it's the RFL right to set it's rules doesn't mean a court could decide it's unfair practice.

The difference is the clubs in Superleague collectively make the rules not the RFL.

But it seems to be suggested that most if not all the clubs have stretched, twisted or broke their own rules at some point. Does that not imply a review of the salary cap and how it is implemented?

....is needed?

No it's fact.

Unlike the Bosman case, no single player can actively claim their rights have been breached (unlike the situation you describe that ultimately led to the Bosman rule). There are lots of examples for individuals having rights breached by over arching organisation agreements
(most recently a class action against 4 tech companies and a non competition agreement in Silicon Valley.) Both the Bosman rule and the mentioned example were also breaching rights of individuals outside of contract. The SC is strictly dealing with individuals IN contract, and you can sign away human rights in contract let alone allow the RFL to assign a number based on salary, appearance, bonuses, years of employment, previous employers etc and as a competition only allow a 25 man squad registered add up to so much.

Those alone make the "rfls comp, rfls rules" applicable here.