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I do like the line of thinking that appears prevalent on this thread of 'the rules are being broken, let's get rid of the rules' perhaps we should do the same with other offences such as robbery and murder? 'Many people do it, so f*ck it, let's just get rid of the law that attempts to prevent it'.

The players were obviously in on it, they had to sign the contracts that were fraudulent, as were the coaching staff in all likelyhood, but I can't see many coming over here. Too many of them have international ambitions and with the exchange rate being poor and the overseas tax loophole being closed, it isn't as profitable to come over here now.

I also think we may see bigger penalties being imposed on SL clubs for SC breaches now there is no relegation. A large points penalty would not ruin a club like it would had they been relegated because of it.

Why would a Warrington fan talking about Saints and Bradford being saying that? Given the pages of qualifications and rules on the cap I would suggest it isn't as simple as 'you're a pound over, lose all points'

However, having two contracts to hide your cheating is as simple as that.

Cant agree with that, personally im not a massive fan of the "no murder" rule, I didnt vote for it so ill be ok when i kill a few people!

You play to the rules that are in place, simples!

Dont care who he supports, there is an overwhelming sense of hollier than thou, when it comes to teams we support, and we are all guilty. Should we have been punished in 06 when the rfl said we didnt break the cap? Were you on then saying its only technical so let them off? Or was that cheating?

Its simple every club knows how much they can spend, so if you go over, your over, dont matter how you do it!

I dont think the cap is a good thing how it is, you should be rewarded for certian things not punished for producing talent when other teams cant be bothered as they understand you cant keep them all.

Yeah cause breaking a salary cap is even comparable to murder and robbery. Do you honestly think that’s a valid point to make?

There is a massive jump between someone sympathising with the Storm club for breaking an out of date rule like the SC and someone trying calling for the murder laws to be repealed.

It’s obvious the SC needs re adjusting as the Storm have to do things like this to keep its top players. Again I can’t see how anyone can say the Storm don’t deserve to keep every player they’ve trained, developed and invested in just because they’ve had success? It’s a backward rule that penalises teams like the Storm who not only produce top players like Inglis, Smith, Slater etc as well as turning also rans like Lima into world class ones. They’ve invested in getting the best out of these players and should be able to maximise the rewards of it for as long as they want.

So by my reckoning they overpaid their whole team for the whole of 2009 by less than Frank Lampard earmns in 3 weeks (£420k) - if they have the money and can sustain a club let them pay it to the players!

I do agree with your last paragraph though! I just cant ever agree that if you dont like the rules you should be allowed to break them!

It took a little longer for something like this to appear than I expected, but in the end a Saints fan didn't disappoint.

Personally I wouldn't want any. I think the days of highly paid world class players coming here are long gone. We need to invest in our own youth and I'd rather see us bringing through our own potentially world class players than buying Aussies on a big wage!

But the problem arises when your own world class players want world class wages, and the Cap dictates that they can't have them unless they go somewhere else.

thats the problem with success it breeds greed

Again it’s not like I’m talking about murder, insurance or theft laws I’m talking about a sporting cap which holds a business/club back for the benefits of its competitors.

The points you agree with show the rules are plainly wrong and don’t favour the clubs doing GOOD for the game. Let’s not beat around the bush with this one the SC holds back the strong clubs, the ones that do good for the game by producing the likes of Smith, Inglis & Slater the ones that invest in top class coaches and methods.

If it punishes the good for the benefit of the lazy then the Storm are well in their rights to refuse to adhere to it. There is a term in politics called the tyranny of the majority which says what is right for the majority isn’t always the correct thing. Apartheid was voted in but isn’t acceptable same goes for slavery laws in the 60’s as well.

It also breeds envy.

These boards and the tolls that come onto here still bitter over our success show how bad it can get.

Or pragmatism.

I doubt anyone posting on this thread would hesitate to go to another firm if it was offering them a lot more money to do the same job they are doing now.