Its actually the daftest thing I've read during this saga. The idea seems to be that the existing club will be liquidated and that a Supporters Trust will instantly emerge and seemlessly take over the running of the club. In mid season. Its laughable.

Yeh I only thought about this today, very true, quotas and salary caps would stop a few players going.

I guess the difference in business and sport is that in business you would start again from scratch. In sport if you are kept in the top flight by the organising body you are not exactly starting from scratch, you have been given a starting edge over competitors such as Halifax, Feathstone, Leigh, oldham etc...

Keeping your points gives you a starting advantage over Salford, London, Widnes.

Like I say they will be a new business but not a new sporting entity which seams some what shady.

If BK did want the SC to be reduced then he would have already got his wish. The SC has already been reduced in real terms very significantly indeed, by at least 30% since its inception. This is due to the disgraceful failure to link the cap to RPI or wages inflation.

So, what point the salary cap?.....

Is it helping in any aspects of the game?.... Or is it a hinderance?

Is just papering over the massive crack of a HUGE shortage of funding in SL overall? Making SL completely unsustainable as a full time, professional sport, that can compete on the world stage?

While it is true if the club folded the debts may not be completely wiped it is guaranteed they won't be paid off in full or they wouldn't need to go into administration in the first place and incur whatever penalties that involves - assuming there are any (which there should be).

The point I was making was that it isn't acceptable to go bust and then a new club to rise form the ashes in exactly the same position as the one that went bust. Still in SL, no points deducted and so on.

It is fine for it to go bust and jobs be saved as you describe but it isn't fine for it to carry on as an entity we would all recognise as the Bradford Bulls (regardless of the holding company being new) as if nothing had happened. That would simply mean a legal mechanism had been used to shaft the creditors - which will include the clubs employees with no penalty. You can not run a professional sport like that and expect people to invest in it.

I agree, but it seams the law backs risk takers as opposed to sound financial planning.

Bring back the debtors prisons I say.

Whilst we are at it.

Hanging and other such liberal ideals....

No need to apologise, as you have misunderstood once again.

I want the CC abolished, however, if it is to remain then it must prove useful.

Abolish the ceiling, maintain a % cap of turnover/profit/some other measure.

Not that hard to understand is it?

Agreed. Perhaps I should have said "effectively abolished" to be more technically correct.

Btw on behalf of the other "usual suspects", I think we must apologise for continuing to oppose the CC even though Wigan are currently dominating the competitions......

As was pointed out on this forum numerous times over the last 5 years or so, we only opposed the CC on account of it's impact on our own club, not RL in general......................

Am I the only one that wants the Bulls to go into liquidation? nothing against the club or its fans just out of curiosity to actually see what happens.

Which bit ofThe cap has never had anything to do with whether clubs go bust or not.'"