Whether Leigh have reduced the playing squad by a few players or not, the majority of the squad is full time and even with the rise this year (up to 50% ~ 1.3 mil I think).
With the addition of Patterson, Chase, Hansen, Maitua, Weston, Tonga plus Fui, Hock, Higham and Brierly I find it very hard to believe they will be under the cap without being "creative" in some form or another.

Rumour is they all took huge pay cuts for the love, a bowl of lobby and a 10% discounted sundeck.

Dirk, you could always ask Derek if you are so concerned. FYI seeing as you are ill informed of the new SC rules, the SC limit in the championship is now exactly the same as the SL salary cap limit. The 50% of relevant income applies if that figure is less than the maximum SC limit. In Leighs case this as been adjudged/set by the RFL at 1.31M. Also if I recall, I saw somewhere that Bradfords is somewhere around 1.34M.

Now the last turnover figures I saw for Salford were published at 2.3M, dependant on what 'relevant' income includes that would see Salfords SC this season set lower than both Leigh and Bradford. As a rider to this I do not know if this was in Salfords 2014 accounts or 2015 accounts.

It's highly unlikely considering the club get 1.82m from Sky. Our main shirt sponsorship was quoted as 200K so that would leave just under 300K for gate receipts, corporate hospitality, all other sponsorships and merchandising sales.

CoE or invoiced, it doesn't alter the fact that the company who Puletua had the second contract with is actually registered as a dormant company at CH and has declared that it made no financial transactions during the year in question. So if that company is dormant then who did actually pay Puletua ? It's all very murky.

A set of abbreviated accounts were filed in Companies House a few days ago. Not had a proper look myself.

misinformed not sure where you get that from, you've just restated what is already originally posted with regards to spending limit.

Next time I see Derek I'll ask him

What's to stop a company owned by Mrs K , or one of his brothers paying TP £48000 a year to wash her cars. As long as he declares it for tax. It would have no connection to Salford? If Salford are found guilty and docked points, arent the players concerned also guilty of trying to get round the cap , and therefore shouldn't they get a ban as well?

Reporting is squarely in the domain of the club and therefore no player will be banned if their club breaches SC rules.

The rules regarding whose payments count
Wherever salary or other benefits are expressed as being paid, payable or Accruing

Even if you successfully argue that Mrs. K doesnt fall under c), e) will forever defeat any attempt to devise a scenario. Same with wags working in the club shop.

Well firstly thats definitely what the turnover was reported as. Secondly you quoted something like 50% or £1.35M as the Salary cap. I was simply correcting you to 50% or £1.85M or whatever the SL salary cap is.

Salfords accounts reported a loss of £1.7M on a turnover of something like £2.3M. Salford are now showing liabilities of £6.8M. This information is publicly available on the gov.uk companies house website.

I think you have mistaken me for another poster on here re the above. On the other matter ignore what was reported as turnover, just do the maths and tell me how Salford's gate receipts, sponsorship, corporate hospitality, programme sales, lottery and merchandising sales wouldn't equate to 275k a year. 14 home games and a very conservative 3000 people (Average 4200 exc free entry game) paying say a very low average of £12 a ticket (Excluding VAT) would equate to £504K in gate receipts alone. Additionally if you had an average of 200 people in hospitality every home game and the club were charging £75 a head that would equate to another 180K sales over the season. You have to agree the turnover figure doesn't tally up does it?

I'm not arguing with you. The figures I have quoted are off the official accounts posted with Companies House. Maybe they need explaining further then.

Meanwhile we wait with baited breath for the RFL to say/do anything which will stop the gazillion threads around the RL internet world

Proof ? or do I call you Marc Green & claim my £5.00 ( tax deductible against my second income .. )

There's a link on the VT thread. I'll donate your fiver to Koukash