Well I stated Salford for a couple of reasons..One of which you have one in your ranks included in your salary cap. As for something being well publicized as some say to your current income/expenditure.Do you have a link to prove what your saying..

I don't think you'll need a link to know that Wakefield can't spend the same as Salford.

Did you state Salford because of their somewhat frivolous owner who openly states he doesn't really care too much for the salary cap? Taken from an interview with Michael Carter in the YEP earlier in the year: "This year was always in my mind one of staying in Super League. If we can achieve this, then next year through our debt reduction and increase in TV money, we would have an extra £175k to invest in the first team. This would bring us to just £50k short of the current salary cap limit."

Not sure how accurate this is, but going by that, we are operating at £225k less than the current salary cap. Although this interview was in May, and we have since offloaded some higher earners. Granted the Championship has less to play with, but the point is you're up against a team running with the smallest budget in the League you are competing for a place in. Fair enough we now have Locke from Salford, but if rumors are to be believed he's not on a massive wedge, and apparently offered to play for peanuts just to get some game time to prepare himself for a return to the NRL.

As I understand it Locke's salary cap value has nothing to do with how much you are paying him, it is set from his value at Salford, though I have been known to be wrong in the past.

Is Hock fit, I was told Saturday he was out for four weeks

He's out. Was due to go for op Friday gone

Whatever Locke's salary cap value is or was at Salford, he won't be receiving anywhere near that at Wakefield, and I doubt even if we doubled his Salford wages and his salary cap value we would be in danger of breaching the salary cap.

When a player is on contract you offload by settling the remainder of his contract or by allowing him to sign for another team without a few -which players signed for another club?

I don't agree.

Leigh +6 with most Bookmakers

Locke's salary of £260,000 will still count on Wakefield's cap, that's not to say he is being paid that. Infact he is reportedly only earning £60,000 per annum at Wakefield.

Since we off-loaded Locke (£260k) and Hock (£150k) people might be surprised at what Salford's salary cap actually looks like. It's nowhere near the full £1.80m.

Stolen from another forum


This weekends likely line up to play Leigh, 13 of the 17 have been at Wakefield all season (Arundel missed the first 3 games).

3 of the other 4 are replacements for better or similar players who've left the club

Doesn't exactly fit the Paul Rowley conspiracy theory does it!

L Smith
Lyne Existing Player
Arundel Existing Player
Tupou Bought to replace Dean Collis
Riley Existing Player
Miller Existing Player
T Smith Existing Player
Anderson Existing Player
Sio Bought to replace McShane
Scruton Existing Player
Ashurst Existing Player
Molloy Existing Player
Washbrook Existing Player

Godinet Existing Player
Lauitiiti Existing Player
Simon Existing Player
Mullally Swapped with Dan Smith going the other way

Is Scutchy playing?

If I had any idea who Scutchy is I might be able to answer