How much are you up to now? The pressure from below must have forced something from it,not only to survive but also compete. Or are you still no where near the cap?

I believe (and im certainly not 'in the know' on these matters) that were not up to cap. I think i read that we were around £200,000 short?

Think were about £200k short.

I get the impression that were trying to get the club a bit more self sufficient by wanting a cowd of a certain number before we spend the cap, which is fair enough.

I think with the cap going up for 2018, this will be a challenge for us, but I thibk our crowds maybe slightly hogher than in 2016 and would hope they are higher still in 2018.

One thing is for sure though, we can vouch for this as Im sure Salford can, spending the full cap doesnt guarantee success

Didn't MC say in his recent interview that we were 250K below and next year might be 300K and used Wimbledon in football as an example why this isn't sustainable so the new stadium income generation plan will mean we can spend nearer to the cap.

Not just Salford, just look at the other clubs who finished below us

Wigan spent last year according to Wigan today, £4.66M salary cap, not bad considering the cap is supposedly set at £1.8M

Doesn't really matter how much the cap is if your wasting it on players that aren't good enough.

I think that figure includes all staff, not just playing squad and marquee players.

You might want to read that again.

Yeah this paragrath gives away why they spend so much.


Wow 89 staff members, that' s something else.

From what i can gather, we're about £200k below the next nearest club (probably Widnes) and around £750k below some clubs (Leeds, Wigan etc)

I can't begin to understand RL players wages, how much will someone of Sam Tomkins standing get for a years salary as a Marquee player?

Just reading the marquee rule it states -

Tompkins was on $750,000 AUS in 2014, that's roughly £440,000 now. There's plenty of reports that be he's on £400k+ as a marquee player (roughly 1/4 of our total cap value!!)

I read that in a few places, but nothing official. Tbh though I'd be very surprised if he was. it's one thing the NZ Warrriors chucking that much on him at the time in the NRL but it's another spending a similar amount in this League to get him back. Saying that for all I know he very well could be.