You can play with numbers all you like, my point was that it's not hard to envisage Wigan being at full cap if, per Shaun Wane's statement, Bateman, McIlorum, Gelling, Flower, Williams and Crosby are sharing £900k between them. Adding Tomkins assumed £100k and bearing in mind the quality of the rest of your squad, based on that salary scale we could easily assume Wigan are at full cap, whether that's £1.85 million or £2 million.

If Wigan are releasing someone of equal quality to FPN (Bateman?) then fair enough, maybe his contract is back-loaded, maybe Canberra are paying part of his salary as Canterbury are with Pritchard, I don't care. My point being that based on the comments of your own coach it's hard to imagine Wigan aren't at full cap at the moment and therefore need to release someone to make this work.

As a kind of outsider the Hull squad looks a more expensive line up than the Wigan one, Taylor, Ellis, Pritchard, Manu & Sneyd must be taking up a fair chunk. Even with FPN Wigan's squad don't look like a squad that is pushing cap rules compared to other years.

And as Rogues says "If" Wigan release someone will that satisfy you?
Because I can't understand what your point is? "If" Wigan release/Sell whatever you name it a Player then surely that would be an indication that they are up to the cap and needed to do so to get FPN in?

Where as anyone said otherwise?

PS - If he said he had a Million pounds sat in the stand wouldn't that be different to having a Million "Salary cap" pounds sat in the stand.

Assuming the other way that Sam is say on 300k then the other 6 are on 700k - Does that sound more feasible?

PPS - Bateman played however - Farrell/Joel Tomkins/Manfredi & Sean O'Loughlin were also missing so as I suspected 9 players out on either 850k or 700k dependant on what Wane meant.
Seems about right to me

Firstly the cap is live now so the RFL won't permit any club to register a player if it takes them over. Secondly, and more importantly we are a different club now, Dave Whelan and Uncle Mo hugely underestimated the negative effects of a salary cap breach and I don't think they even cared. Ian Leneghan runs the club in a very different way, the admin side of the club are far more professional and wouldn't drag our club through the gutter like the previous regime.

The same live cap that Salford have been deducted points for breaching?

Not the same issue at all - any club can breach the live salary cap if they don't declare all player payments.
The difference is that Salford were found out.

What's to say Wigan (or any club) are declaring correctly?

Nothing, all clubs could be spending double for all we know. Salford were done for concealing payments (though they are appealing). Melbourne were heavily penalised a few years back for the same thing.

It would take a whistle blower for any club who was concealing payments to be found out, if the were (and I include my own in this) I hope they would be deducted enough points to be relegated.

We own the RFL, simples

Greg Burke Leaving