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Quote: TheButcher "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'"

I don't think you're cheating the cap (at least not yet

) - I do think teams are getting more for their cap than Salford though

Logic becomes a lot easier this year, since according to koukash you're spending up to the cap this year - so incoming players should marry up to outgoing players.

Of course, it gets tricky as salaries aren't published. People can only use guesstimates. Some can be figured out through other rumours (like Kevin Locke rejected the bulldogs offer of $400k so it can be a safe(ish) bet that any Salford deal will be in that region), and some are left to guessing (like bjb, I'd say £75k but, I'm literally pulling a number out of the air) - now, there is at least 3 more to come apparently, so there's quite a bit of cap space movement to be considered (far more than is usually seen by the "top" teams (who prefer more settled teams) which is why imo people call foul)

Depending on who goes will depend on whether I cry foul