Quote: Lord Tony Smith "They have Hardaker, French, Hastings, Bateman and Field. All will be on big money. However it seems Williams would only cost 75k towards the cap because he is 'club trained'.'"
Yes but they had all those players before Burgess retired, so surely they were able to fit them all plus a marquee salary in Burgess, under the cap........ Unless when Hastings signed his extension in Nov 20 they already knew Burgess would play no part in 2021.
Williams would only count for £75k, but that would mean one of Hastings or Bateman would have their full salary counting on the cap as they would use marquee for Williams I imagine as would get the most dispensation from it.
If they didnt have cap space they could release Hastings early, Raiders or Wests would be interested i'm sure. Austin would probably need to be released to another SL club - Leigh perhaps?