Quote: Mild mannered Janitor "
The Punishment is woefully light and in an era of apparent "Live" salary cap, why is this not detected until the following season.'"
Because the player/players involved received (reduced) payments to keep within the cap, and their "agents" were payed separately, but that money should have gone directly to the players, and would have then exceeded the cap.
It took so long because wigan denied doing anything wrong, so it had to go to an independent tribunal, at which point they admitted the offence.