I agree. I can see a lot of movement between clubs and there may need to be some rules on how the cap works. So if I understand this correctly then Alex Thompson will still count on the cap for the whole of this season. But say for example wakefield are trying to reduce costs by offloading somebody like fafita then under the cap saints would not be able to sign him. Is that correct

You mean Luke Thompson?

He is no longer a Saints player, so that salary cap will be available for them to use this season - they are free to use it on whoever they want, as long as they dont go over the £2.1m cap limit plus exemptions.

Sign of the times ahead as teams release long players from contracts showing up now.

Stepping stone to us in a season or two

Sorry, yep, Luke Thompson. I guess the clue was in the thread title. So if we released BMM his remaining salary is free for us to use on a new signing as long as they balance out so that we don't go over the cap.

"The rumour is" , "sounds like". You're just believing anything as he's gone, and you want him to be the bad guy.

That is a darn good question. Clearly a GF win is the goal but if it were as a result of a chaotic season like this I would be really disappointed to have to watch it on the telly but hey, a GF win id a GF win ..... I don'l really know. Whoever 'wins' this season will have "'it's not a proper season / GF thrown at them and I would hate that for our first big one. On the other hand would we care what other people think. Damm Saddo that is a good question

Winning the GF in this season is a token title and won’t carry much honest gravity to me. We’d have the “yes you played every game at home and didn’t play a seasons worth of games”...It’s like Wigan and Saints have already threw the towel in and say ‘You can have it Wire, this season is a washout and we just want to get threw it without losing too much’ I agree with that notion.
Only after a complete season can we take earned credit, be it following up in 2021 and even then, 2021 might well be a token win too.
Of all the seasons it could have took to win it, it’s just us to be this patch-up.

I’ll feel we had won it fairly and squarely just as Saints do for the “Flowers” final. We are due a bit of luck

Champions is champions no matter what the circumstances, or criteria.
We've won the end of season play offs, when the winners of the league were crowned champions. We've won the league, when the winners of the end of season play offs were crowned champions.

If we do get to complete the season, one team will be in the record books as champions - forever and a day, end of.

I really don't understand the logic about this season being a right off and not a proper season. My view is that clubs will have to overcome many different challenges and get through a lot of players to get to the end. Whoever gets to the GF will fully deserve it with the winner getting every bit the plaudits that comes with it.

Couldn't care less. A title win is a title win. You think a player will look back at the end of his career over his trophies and go, 'Aw but I won that one with no fans present'.

Bulldogs are terrible. He'll kill it over there though and stand out like a sore thumb. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a stepping stone and he moves to a bigger NRL club in 1 or 2 years. Bunnies haven't replaced Sam yet and they love an English prop forward.

No, but most players will surely get more of a buzz out of winning a trophy in front of 70,000, than an empty stadium?

I mean that lap of honour will be something to behold, won't it?

Course they will but it is what is. I'd rather win it this season in front of no fans than not win it at all this season.