Quote: Uncle Rico "In 'bang for buck' terms I'd say we have under achieved and for quite a long time I don't know for a fact but would suggest that we aren't paying "4th or 5th best squad" money'"
I'd imagine that we are probably aligned with the spend of Wigan, Saints and Catalans. Wigan and Saints had the benefit of the reduced marquee spend cap allocation although Wigan have lost that with the recruitment of George Burgess and Bateman/Hastings. Catalans benefit from an Euro exchange rate not seen since before the Brexit Referendum.
You'll also have Leeds and Hull spending to the cap each year but probably not levering the marquee rule as much as we do for the full period it has been available though they appear to be catching up on that now. Then each year you'll have an outlier eg Koucash's Salford, and Huddersfield this year.
So next year there will likely be seven teams paying pretty much the same in salaries and historically over the last five years about five teams. On that basis I don't think we do that bad in respect of performance.
I would say a realistic minimum level of performance would be to win one of the three trophies every two years. On that basis Price needs to win one next year to be at the minimum acceptable level otherwise he goes. The issue we have is we've never won the premium one - Grand Final.