Just watched the trys from Friday again, very disappointing to see Horne only setting up 3 trys against the best team in the league.

Ah, yes, but 'any capable halfback' can set tries up.

Great shame

Lineham, Horne, Crooks, Bradders

totally agree, think Green could be the next big thing in our game, heard he aint signed his new contract tho, worrying times...about time the cap was sorted and put in line with the nrl and union so we can at least compete and offer these lads some decent money.

I've always felt that home grown talent should get a reduction on the cap to encourage it.

rlAt least Green is here until the end of next season.rl

There is a rule whereby your allowed to spend x amount above the cap if you've brought through a youngster to the England team. Think we do this with Briscoe, Leeds with Ryan Hall, Wigan with Tomkins etc. Anymore than this and it'll see the top teams get even stronger in comparison as they've been chucking money into their youth teams for years.

I think the salary cap by it's very nature encourages investment in youth though - if you're spending at full cap just like a number of other teams, then you have to look at ways other than the first team, to get that slight advantage. It's working in that respect IMO, although I think the salary cap should go up (slightly). 10 years or so at the same level is too long really.

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McDonnell
Crooks

Having being a massive critic in recent years of Horne and seeing the change of his on the field personality this year makes me wonder what type of player Horne could have being if he had this level of coaching when he first started out.

The problem is that the nrl and union have a cap double that of rugby league, this gives them the opportunity to poach the best players from our competition. Next year there are already some big names heading to the nrl...how many more to follow. Also our clubs now have little chance of bringing in any quality Australians because they can get paid alot more back home. While this maybe great for the up coming youngsters who will now get a game, in the big picture, can super league survive. Crowds are dwindling, sponsorship seems to be very hard to come by, and the people steering the ship seem to have few answers

On the other hand, very few clubs could afford any increase in the cap, so you'd either get even more of a gulf/monopoly than there already is or clubs going pop as rapidly as bubble wrap through a mangle.

There is only one answer, and it's to produce more players through the youth systems. The only questions are whether this can be done enough, and how in the hell scaling back to the 19s system will help to achieve that?

Basically no club apart from Leeds can survive without a sugar daddy so just bloody scrap the cap and let the sugar daddys pay for the best players before SL is just a league of players nobody else wants.

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Crooks
Lineham

Horne
Westerman
Crooks