I'm sure I remember in an interview that AP stated that if the club continue to struggle financially then we will have to adjust our salary cap spend to be in line with our income. So perhaps this may have a impact on any future recruits. Could we afford a marquee signing? Let's hope home attendances go up and the team encourages that with the performances we have se so far in 2016. That way, we may be able to continue spending at the max cap.

I personally would buy another strike centre and move Carlos Tuimavave to 6 for 2017.

Why? He's looked top quality at centre so far.

Also Michaels and Feka.

I think his pace and ball handling skills would suit stand off role.

Lordy. Was thinking about quota but with Michaels OOC....

If we already have a RFL salary cap "marquee" player, then he'll probably be playing next year, which makes another "marquee" player less likely.

The salary cap rules state that "The identity of any Marquee Player shall not be kept confidential."

I can't imagine any player being happy with this, making public that they are earning more then £175k.

I don't remember any club making such an announcement, bearing in mind that the term "marquee" has been used for years.

Would be great to get him but I wouldn't have thought our finances would allow it, even if he was the marquee signing, still see what happens.

I thought AP pretty much said Frank is our marquee player?

Adam Pearson said only two Teams had pucker marquee players in Super league this year and we were one of them with Frank Pritchard, we can't have two!

EDIT sorry Chris our replies clashed!!

Tomkins being the other I think

This would be a typical Hull signing. We start to gel and act as a team then we buy a player that can totally mess it up.

Is Pritchard a bone fide marquee signing though?
I thought Lee Radford had previously said that we wouldn't be utilising the ruling .
Also thought AP said that Pritchard was a marquee "type" signing .
I could well be wrong though.

Like someone said earlier, Carlos has all the skills needed for stand off, but he could be well established in the centre role by next season

You'd like to think we'd be in with a shout for Marshall (if finances allow ), given the connections we have to him.

I guess there are 3 salary caps....

(1) The RFL salary cap limit (which now also has a new upper limit of 50% of "Club Relevant Income"icon_wink.gif.
(2) The clubs own salary cap, based on projected income.
(3) The clubs salary cap after invoking the £175k marquee rule.

I reckon we're close to the limit on (2), which could, of course, be the same as (1).

So we're up to the cap limit, but moving to (3) could allow for another signing.