Here's another way of reducing the cap.

Assuming Danny Houghton is a "club trained" player, and earns £110k, for sake of argument.

Pay him another £40k, he becomes a marquee player, and our cap liability is reduced by £35k (£110k-£75k).

Daft I know, and money is no object.

Edit: not quite as simple as it seems - a player needs to earn at least £170k to have a nominal cap space of £150k or £75k, so the sums are still right, but the club would need to find an extra £60k in the example above.

Explains Perason's observation that a marquee player could be divisive.

Leeds have effectively had to lose 2 £60/70k players to make room and maintain there existing cap strategy.

And the money above £150k still has to found and payed out, on top of everything else.

Who did they lose (I am not up on other teams squads)

No idea, it's only a numbers game, but Garbutt left within a week of Furner arriving as coach last November.
Not offering new contracts is the easy way out, although the NRL always seem to have surplus players available before the season starts because of cap issues.
Sinfield is saying it'll take a couple of years to get sorted, sounds like they're on borrowed time at the moment.

Two are going out on loan to Doncaster

Does anyone know why he left the Broncos?

Surplus to requirements? Homesick?

I'd heard soon after he'd gone that he'd be back.
His reason for leaving was more to do with residency than anything else.

Salary cap issues.

The haters are gonna love me for saying this but im a bit underwhelmed if im honest. He will effectively replace Mini but is he as good as Mini? - id say a long way off even if Minis career is now on the downward. Savelio is 23, he's had 4 clubs so far that none have seemed like theyve wanted to keep him, a dodgy injury record and from what i remember of him at Saints he wasnt that good anyway with rumours of him always thinking that he was better than he actually was ala Liam Watts.

We should of gone in for Joe Greenwood who went to Wigan when we had the chance - miles better player than Savelio

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Come on 'ull another win next week just to Seb off more.

The fact he has been through a number of clubs and has just come back from a serious knee injury is a slight concern, yes.
However I think that is far outweighed by the potential he has. He is only 23 so has a lot of development in him and he will likely have grown up since his Saints says. Plus Brisbane saw enough in him to sign him in the first place. Good non-fed players are hard enough to come by as it is without being picky to that degree.
As for Greenwood, perhaps we didn't have the means to sign him when he was available or mayve we did try but he preferred Wigan.