It's a sad fact that some of the best players will migrate to union and the NRL while our cap is lower, and raising it would lessen that, but a) some of those players will probably go regardless (higher publicity, bigger internationals) and b) those players who go for the money would instead migrate to the teams at the top if we raised the cap. There are a few names on that list who would be able to fight it out for the big names, so they wouldn't all go to the same team, but I also see a few on there that I would not call wealthy. We're already in a position where some clubs can spend to the cap and some can't, and some clubs have the cash to buy out a contract, snapping up players without competition from other clubs who could only afford the wages.

What we need to raise the cap fairly is to bring [imore money[/i into the sport - better marketing, better sponsorship and better negotiation of the TV rights. Some of you will have seen me arguing this point before, but it needs to be done - we get a poor deal compared to other sports for our viewing rights even after you adjust them for viewing figures, which is probably down to RL being seen as a minority sport despite the evidence to the contrary. We get more than 100,000 viewers for most games on Sky, over 200,000 for big games and the start of the season (I'll probably post the GF figures when they come out to back this up), but you probably wouldn't know it was televised at all if you weren't already interested in watching.

We need the RFL to take the figures out there and show other sports channels what they're missing, get some competition going and drive the rights prices up. If we can double the TV rights deal (which would still be less per viewer than union) that's over £1m for each SL club, which should be enough to support the clubs making losses and bring the cap up to maybe £2m or £2.5m

in regards to changing the salary cap levels then i am ok with this as long as the rich can't spend that much,and just because they can,as that will only widen the gap at the top.we certainly don't need another case of wigan buying trophies just because they could,or do we need leeds chasing them cos they could

the benchmark for success can be seen by all at the rhinos,we don't break the cap,we don't back down when agents demand more money for their clients,but we continue to win silverware and on a level playing field with all the top sides too,so the question has to be why do we spend our money better than everyone else?
if the limit was raised moderately and across all clubs then i dare say that the same clubs would appear at wembley and win grand finals each year?

I have to say that Leeds are the 'gold standard' that we should all be aiming for. You are a beacon of hope for smaller clubs like Wire. We do our best to emulate you, but year after year you just seem to get better. Even when we manage to retain the services of TS, whom you trained up and gave a job to when nobody else would, we still get beaten in the GF.

However, the really important question I would like to ask is, do you think Paul Wood can now be described as the hardest man in SL, or do you think it's still Ryan ?

bailey wouldn't have even felt a thing as he's that tough

Yes and looked what happened to both Wigan and Leeds. Wigan won everything which became boring and Leeds went bust trying to chase the dream of catching Wigan, who went bust or very close to later on. The salary cap is not perfect and should be altered to once again include a maximum percentage of turn over. It is more important to stop the farce of clubs spending too much and going bust. That is what really hurts the sport.

On the issue of a draft system that could not work in Rugby League as all clubs pay and bring up their own junior players and it would be very damaging to then poach these players to other clubs that have not invested in their youth.

Rugby league needs to forget these grand ideas and build from the lower divisions and look to increase standards we always seem to look for the quick fix or the god father.

We are strong in the heartlands and the process of converting the unbelievers will take many years of junior and school development which thankfully has started and needs to be given support, that is where our long term success will come from.