To be fair mate, as a Salford fan I'd accept challenging for the top 8 next season. If the wholesale changes are going to take place it will take the team a long time to gel. Maybe he meant fun as in not serving up embarrassing performances and taking beatings week in week out we are suffering this season. Personally I'd like to see us challenge for play offs next year with a good cup run. Year after, consolidate in the play offs again then announce ourselves as contenders the year after that with an assault on the top 5. Who knows where Salford will end up I just find it exciting that there will be more teams in the mix rather than just Wigan / Leeds / Saints / Warrington, hopefully with Hudds and now Hull emerging then Salford, we should start seeing differing teams winning the trophies at end of the season.

I'm pretty sure that clubs who can spend more than the cap are doing so already. Whether it's brown envelopes or getting their weekly shopping... All raising the salary cap will do is make these teams declare what they're already spending.

But it's not a business.

Many pro clubs in various sports are basically insolvent if it were not for unearned income. Whether that comes from TV rights or the back pocket of some wealthy benefactor doesn't really matter in the short term. Longer term the money could dry up from either source but sports clubs would be daft to spurn the use of cash on the table now as it's all about success now, not what might happen in the future.

If it were that easy we'd be seeing top Aussies signing for the likes of Wire if they are prepared to get around the cap as is suggested they are. Koukash would be able to bid for who he liked with enough money to temp them.

Koukash seemingly has deep pockets but I don't think other clubs including Wire and Wigan want to spend much more than they are. Wire may be able to offer the odd fringe benefit as it was rumoured they did for Ratchford but large amounts of extra cash? Not sure that is on the table.



I think the SL clubs and the RFL are stupid to not consider changes to the cap beyond the minor tweaking that has occurred recently. If they want a salary cap at all they need to keep people like Koukash on-side because if he just goes and breaks it and it end up in court that is the last place they want to be.

On what grounds would the SC 'stand up in a court of law'?

I don't think it would.