What NottsTiger has stated is correct. Other clubs do it I'm sure, but Salford have tried to do it a bit different and it's added to their problems. You need to look at who has put together the contracts of players like PT, Locke, Chase and Hock over the last couple of years. If you look at the finer detail it's easy to spot what has happened.

You've had access to the 'finer detail' in the 6 hours since you posted this?

This thread is hilarious. The nonsense that people make up sometimes is beyond belief.

There is no way of counting MOM bonuses outside the cap.

You have read rlhttp://www.therfl.co.uk/the-rfl/rules/interactive_operational_rules?section then?

Sadly, no.

I didn't make my point very well. What I mean is that there is no way Salford would leave players out, due to them having supposed 'mom or appearance bonuses' that would take them over the cap.

People assume that the RFL look into these matters in a much finer detail than they actually do.

Something like appearance bonuses are very easy to calculate though aren't they. All the players contracts are lodged with the RFL upon signing and then the contract is signed off by the RFL as to whether it fits within the clubs salary cap. It isn't difficult to count how many games a player has played in and then add on whatever it says in his contract he'll get.

There might be ways round the cap (not as many as people think without getting into potentially deep do do) but just hoping the RFL can't count isn't one of them. Nigel Wood's fingers may be podgy but he can still use them to count with.

One of the more interesting clauses is this one:

5.4.3 A player moving between Super League clubs during the regular season cannot have a lower SCV at his new club than what he had at the old one, regardless of what his new contract states.

Which by my reading means that Kevin Locke's Salary Cap Value at Wakefield must be the same as it was at Salford - allegedly one of, if not the, highest in the league!

This is true. However, the RFL has considerably less ability than people think, to actually access any records of payments to players.

The salary cap to all intents and purposes is a gentleman's agreement, there is no real way of enforcing it.



Nigel Wood has nothing to do with the salary cap, he has bigger fish to fry, literally

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Unless something newer has happened since I had a pint with the Roberts clan at the last home match, I think you'll find he has moved on (and some time ago).

Note to Butcher: my missus has decided to rewatch all the Dallas tragedies on DVD. So far she seems to be doing it when I'm out ... but not always!

Wakefield rant paying Locke what he was getting at Salford. It merely states that the player will have the same value on the clubs cap, regardless of what he is actually getting. And seen as we (wakefield) were so below cap we could accommodate his cap value while paying him less

At Wakefield Kevin Locke is getting paid a month what he was being paid a week at Salford.

Tokens for the bandits?

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