Nice response to the points raised..
But yes, I may as well be.

We dont know yet do we , if they have broken the law , then they also have broken the salary cap rules as well , but are you suggesting that if it is all the clubs then that is ok ? , or if it is just a few of the bigger clubs then fine , that is ok as well

No it is not

Well.. no.
How can you break a law that doesnt even exist?
Unless the rules are written down and clear how is anyone supposed to follow them?!

If it is deemed as a breach of the salary cap I think the RFL will brush it under the table as I bet there's about 7 clubs that have been doing it.

I still maintain you cant break a law that doesn't exist.

Surely as far as the RFL are concerned they would class as illegal payments under the Salary Cap guidelines.....brush it under the carpet? What? and destroy possibly the final piece of credibility. They've already made licensing rules worthless by showing they can change them just BEFORE someone breaks them, now if they were to ignore the 'illegal' payments I don't think I could come up with a descriptive enough word for them. One club, seven clubs who cares. Actually caring less and less about SL.

Dico, I see Hicks has come out of retirement after one week. He was paid off and Wire felt they needed to say he had retired, whats up with just releasing him and paying up his contract (salary cap?)

trouble being as the secret society that is SLE do not publish their 'laws' so they can change them to suit

How can it be an illegal payment with no ruling???
Ah well im off to Australia for a month now so have fun without me kids

Enjoy your trip Mr D and if you really like it there why not move to Australia permanently?

Oh and do try to find somewhere to live where there is no internet connections please

Illegal as far as the RFL are concerned i meant. Ok we'll go with payments that should really be counted on the Salary Cap, a bit like Hicks' payoff from Warrington. I assume because he was retiring and the new season hadn't started it doesn't count

That's the biggest load of nonsense on this thread (and there's plenty of competition on that front too?!

The lack of P&R doesn't mean that games don't matter. Sport is about beating what's in front of you.

If that was the case no SL clubs would care about winning the SL title as they wouldn't get promoted because of it.

What matters is sporting your team, enjoy our sport and challenging for trophies - all of which can be done in the Championship and SL without P&R.

The way that RL is run is embarrassing and frustrating at times but it should never detract from the enjoyment of watching 16 blokes slugging it out on the pitch.

And, just in case you wondered, I am in favour of P&R - I just don't cry about the lack of it as much as some.

Damn - we HAVE been breaking the rules. We consistently use 17 - in fact Whitehaven even reckon we used 18!!

You'ld better go and tell the Wakey fans, as some of them would seem to be ready to top themselves rather than watch Championship rugby, and that is the problem the Championship clubs have, and thats the way the Championship is viewed by others