No problem with that.
But lets have it right across the board.

Toulouse knew they would break the overseas quota by being in the Championship, the RFL gave them a dispensation - the minute they did that was the minute the RFL left themselves wide open.
Gateshead stayed up playing with a different player quota to Leigh , the minute you do that is the minute you leave yourself wide open as a governing body.
There is no room for the 'good of the game' if its your club/ business that loses finance, sponsors and support just because of it where it happens to play its RL.

For me the cap and quota should be scrapped, I want to see the best players at my club, couldn't give a toss if they are from Leigh or Brisbane.
I would prefer local players but if 'local' means a lower league for my club and my social time /enjoyment , then I'm sorry bring me a team full of Aussies playing for Leigh anyday, if its good for 1 club its good for them all.

The rules are changing from next season. A raft of young guns from SL teams will be available to other clubs because the reserves and academy teams are being merged into an under 20s team. Each club will only be allowed to play up to three over 20s in that team (as reservists). So anyone over 20 not signed up to the first team will be free to go wherever. I would imagine there will be more loan agreements available as a result because there are bound to be players that SL clubs would like to retain, possibly considering future squad changes, but they can no longer keep them at the club once they pass 20 years old. So both Championship and Championship 1 teams may benefit, given their now more restrictive salary caps.

We, in the Championship, have seen the reality of loan agreements, thank you. Widnes had Hall from Hull, and Penney and Pickersgill from Warrington. Leigh had Hemingway from Huddersfield. They were bedded nicely into their respective Championship clubs, when Warrington and Huddersfield called their players back, so they could field weakened teams before Wembley. What of Widnes and Leigh? Well, they got the players match fit for the SL clubs and were then left with gaping holes in their squads, at a critical stage of the season.

Let the SL clubs keep their own squad players fit, thank you!

Except that now it is a 'live' cap and monitored every month then you'll be docked points at the time you breach it. In season's gone by you could have done it and took the points deduction the next season, but not now. So if the club 'spend as we like' then the RFL will 'deduct points as they like'.

It is not relevant, tomorrow we will see Bramley in C1 and Leigh granted a reprieve.

Stop it

Someone had to bing the rumours back up

if the maximum they can deduct is 6..we will win the league by more than 6 so infact it would be less of a penalty than deducting it when we are back in the Championship..

Name them................

I hardly think this would happen - so they are going to have effectively a monthly salary cap, with a monthly audit from the goons at Red Hall?

How would they know if you have broken an annual cap half way through the season? What happens if you overspend one month and underspend the next month - do you get some of your points back?

I don't think so..

Mapleyther

Apparantly Barrow have 49 players on their books www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_team.asp I just don't get it one tiny bit.

Apparantly Barrow have 49 players on their books www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_team.asp I just don't get it one tiny bit.

At least 12 of those players have not on been on the books for sometime now, Barrow took over the 5 oldham players contracts which were at NL2 salary cap so wont be high as people may think.