Comparing Aguero to Luke Chadwick is a bit ridiculous, like for like it would be Adam Johnson or Scott Sinclair. In fact the only comparable Man Utd player I can remember (winning something with the last kick of the season) was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the bloke with a 40ft banner at the Stretford end 10 years after retiring.

Secondly, do you not admit that we have better facilities now? I plan to build an oak lodge and move Cheryl Cole in but as of now I can only offer a 3 bed house in Wigan and attract women accordingly.

As above, you have an awful team with awful facilities in an awful Rugby league location. The first step to your world domination is not Billy Slater in rented accomodation. If you want to attract a world class player in the next five years the start has to be becoming something more than the laughing stock of the league. So sign some decent players.

Yeah exactly, we were spending up to the cap.

Yes I am saying exactly that. If you think Lenegan is interested in bankrolling higher players salaries out of his own pocket I think you are very much mistaken.

Think about it. If the cap were doubled to compete with the NRL that would involve Wigan finding an extra £1.6m in revenue and I for one do no believe IL will put that kind of money into the club year after year. I don't think Moran or Pearson would do the same for their clubs either.

The sports that pay the highest wages basically fund it from TV deals. That is how RU is doing it. RL needs to generate a lot more money off its own bat as a sport before the salary cap could be increased to the level of the NRL.

The sugar daddy route might allow a small increase in the cap but that won't make any real difference because we are talking of doubling it to compete with our immediate rivals for talent.

Maybe I didn't word that post very well. I didn't mean [idoubling[/i the cap and Wigan needing to find an extra £1.6m. That's cleary not going to happen.

If, however, it was raised at the end of the year - say by £200k - I don't think Lenegan would continue to blindly abide to the £1.6m level, it's a totally arbitrary figure - albeit, agreed by a majority of the member clubs.

So whilst he may not want to bankroll higher players' salaries out of his own pocket, he may want to consider modest cap increases - if he wants to protect his assets!

The fact is that will just allow clubs to spend massive amounts of money on juniors. So when/if they make it the club benefits massively.

Already Wigan and Wire and throwing money at youth players and that would just make it worse.

If the Dr wants to spend silly money within the confines of a salary cap, invest in the best youth system money can buy, buy the stadium, market the club to anyone that will listen, have offers and invite the corporates around on freebies with the purpose of getting them to invest.

Fill the stadium and surround the club with the best staff money can buy, if people see that Salford are an extremely professional club, and run to the highest standard, players will be drawn to it.

Moran seems to have done this, he's invested heavily in areas that he can and in turn it's made us a profitable well run club that people look up to behind the scenes.

The interesting and perhaps disheartening thing about the raising of the cap in Australia has been the immediate demand for unrealistic salary increases by players looking to sign new deals.

We can only assume that something similar would happen here.

A club announces that it has an extra few hundred thousand, and players start to ask for inflated wages. And who could blame them? It's human nature.

For me, once the cash is in place - and I agree with Dave O that it needs to be found and provided across the SL board, rather than through the generosity of wealthy individuals - the cap needs to be moderated sensibly rather than simply done away with or raised willy nilly. If you got exemptions from the cap for home-grown starlets, and if you could call on a central fund of extras for marquee players etc - i.e. if the only cases where the salary cap didn't apply were specifically laid down in law - that should stop ragtag and bobtail suddenly doubling their asking price. That should also improve your chances of keeping your home-grown talent, and attract the occasional big name signing to to put a few extra booties on seats.

Rather than have exemption of youth coming through, have it on proximity to said club, it stops the rich clubs going across the country hoovering up the best talent.

A bit like when you waved the pound notes under Micky Learmonths nose then?

If the next 'Tomkins' was found in Hull, you're telling me that Wigan, Saint, Wire even Leeds and Hudds wouldn't try to recruit him for their team?

No we'd certainly all be after the same player without a doubt,but the Rhinos wouldn't win the race if it was purely based on the money offered.
Although the Rhinos have learnt how to win major trophies and on a regular basis too without having to do this