If scrapping the salary cap enticed more wealthy owners into the game,which by the way Dr Koukash said in his opinion it would,then what is so wrong with that.
Why do we feel the need to regulate the system and Dumb down to the lowest common denominator.Theres nothing wrong with striving for excellence and wanting to bring the best into our game.
If we had more star names in the game then that would generate more interest/revenues from TV,Sponsors and paying fans.Everyones a winner.

I couldn't agree more. High profile superstars puts bums on seats and attracts sponsorship, not poor quality close games.

The NFL manages just fine with a salary cap and there's a ridiculous amount of money there.

The problem is that people have unrealistic expectations of what rugby league can be as a sport. Unfortunately, I can't see it ever generating the kind of crowds and money that some people want it to get. We can strive to make it bigger and better than it is, but I don't think simply getting rid of the salary cap is going to magically do that.

That [iis[/i the definition. I never said it was great. But getting rid of the salary cap would only worsen matters.

I hope Bill Gates likes rugby league.

Nobody is suggesting that its going to be easy or that scrapping the cap will instantly cure all that is wrong but you have to start somewhere.A top priority has got to be to stop the loss of our best players to NRL and RU because of lack of ability to pay them what they are worth because of salary cap restrictions.
This problem with the NRL and RU is not going to go away and will only get worse.What we are currently seeing is only the start of an exodus of players to the NRL.If we dont fix it now them its going to be a slow drawn out slide into total mediocrity for SL and that wont be good for anyone,TV,Sponsors or Fans

Rugby league in Britain cannot control this. There just simply isn't enough money swilling around the game, regardless of the salary cap. So the question is rather what should the game do to improve itself for the people who still want to play in Super League and below, and the people that want to watch it.



Well we don't know that. There is debate over the size of the salary cap in RU and whether or not it is sustainable, even in the face of the deal with BT Sport. So RU has its insecurities too. In the last decade, the NRL has been through what Super League will go through with the loss of talent overseas. This, conversely, was the making of the NRL today. Its clubs had no choice but to bring new players through the ranks and disregard what the established talent was doing abroad. And those players became stars. My hunch is that rugby league in Britain does not have the standard of player coming through to fill the gaps. But we need to disregard that. The situation is what it is. The game can only promote what it has, and it can do so better than it does currently with the likes of Tomkins et al.

And scrapping the salary cap isn't the answer. Far from it.

So your answer is to sit back and do nothing,just cater for whatever is left after the NRL and RU have cherry picked all the talent they want.Who says there isnt enough money for clubs to take onboard a few quality star players.We dont know the answer to that because the salary cap is currently restricting clubs spending.

What would be the impact on SL if for instance SBW signed for a SL club.Would attendances at all the games he plays in go through the roof.Merchandising sales explode.Would sponsors and TV companies be falling over themselves to have a piece of the pie.Does that benefit all SL clubs and not just the one he signs for.Star players of this quality will pay their own salaries in increased revenues whilst at the same time increasing revenues for other clubs as well.

Its no good just sitting back and accepting a situation without even trying a new approach.

Look at the profile Wire gained when Johns came over for...wait for it...3 games

Agreed.

I reiterate my opening post and stress that I'm advocating a structure, without any concept of a salary cap, that should be left in place long term - which in itself would gradually attract in more funding to the whole game of Rugby League in this country (not just Super League).

It's done Soccer no harm. Of course there will always be clubs (Man Utd, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Juventus etc) that will be able to spend more on players than most other clubs in their respective leagues. But so what? That's life.

It's also sport; those clubs are then out there to be challenged. It was a fantastic achievement for Wigan to win the FA Cup - but I venture even sweeter given who they beat in the final.