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Parts of this should be looked into by the rfl.

Union do have the right idea giving an allowance for academy players.
This idea has been going around RL since the SC was introduced, it doesn't take much imagination to understand why it has never been introduced in our game.

Pathetic. They can't develop their own talent so they try to steal ours.

Cue people saying certain clubs dont spend the cap, etc. They should get their s in gear and get people through the gates to get money and generate interest, therefore maybe attracting more people to play creating a bigger pool of talent.

Garbage, lazy clubs are holding our game back

The RFL really need to get with the times and look into things like RU is doing like in the link and stop some of our talent being robbed

Let's hope every one of them goes for a 'marquee player' of Kyle Eastmond's standard.

It would be a toss-up which runs out first - the money or the space on their treatment benches.

In fairness we used to that to them time and time and time and time and time again so we have absolutely no grounds to moan about it. We do need to combat it as best we can though.

Amen to that. If this doesn't set alarm bells ringing at Red Hall then nothing will

That's a bit of a one-sided viewpoint. They needed to up their own SC to stop their own talent-draining problems with French RU, which is uncapped at present

The RFL needs to do something and quickly.

The thing is most RU clubs run at huge losses and cant even afford the wages they are paying at the moment. As a result many RU clubs do not want the salary cap raised. Teams like Exeter, Wasps, Worcester, Sale, Newcastle, Bath, Gloucester are only were they are because of wealthy owners who heavily subsidise them to the tune of millions. Rugby League clubs, bar maybe Warrington, dont have these rich benefators who are prepared to lose millions each year.