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Quote: Michigan red "As for BJB it's a real step in the right direction, signing young British talent isn't easy but in BJB we have signed a back of real quality. Does make me wonder who on earth is being released at the end of the season as can't see Locke or BJB being on peanuts.'"

I know a lot of fans of both our Club and others constantly seem to wave the 'Cap flag' whenever we do anything. With every signing there's always at least a handful of people mentioning the 'C' word. I was thinking about this the other day and people don't seem to allow common sense to seep into their reasoning, or simply don't actually give it genuine thought.

This is not a go at anyone, by the way, just an observation.

You have a team like Leeds who we've just signed BJB off, or Wigan with Hansen for example. Teams that are considerably better, successful, and more expensive than ours. We recruit a few better players into a 'lower standard' side, yet people constantly bring up cap this and that. Even though they are not privvy to anyones or organisations finances. I find it strange that fans from teams that include current Internationals scattered liberally throughout not only their first choices but reserves too, don't question how their team can manage not to raise the question of cap space. Yet when a 'lower' team with about half the quality of players signs a couple of decent players, we must be over the cap.

That is not a go at Leeds or Wigan, I was just using them as an example because we've signed players off them.

I also get the feeling that people's guesses at wages of RL players would be considerably higher than they are in actuality. I'd hope that as a Club we will be surfing close to the cap ceiling come the start of next season. If we have the money we should spend it.

I guess that most people jump to conclusions based on very little