But that was when there was no salary cap surely?

Maybe it was more tax advantageous.

I'd prefer the ditching of the cap, I think it has made our stronger teams weaker but improved our lesser ones. Let clubs function like any other business; paying their employees what they believe they can afford.

Isn't that what everyone wanted? Isn't that what sets SL apart from sports such as football, the fact that the bottom placed team (Quins) can win away at the champions elect (Wigan)? The fact we have games where either team can geniunely win? ATEOTD getting rid of the cap would be benefical for our team but it wouldn't be benefical for SL or the entertainment of the sport.

If there was no cap then it would just turn into football, Clubs with money win everything...

When was the last time any of the lesser SL clubs won a trophy?

In Football Portsmouth won the F.A cup in 2009

The cap is a totally pointless if all clubs arent spending 1.6 million, right now less than half are

The point of the cap is to protect clubs from doing a Leeds United. It was also to try and equalise out the talent, therefore making games more attractive as there would be fewer walk over victories.

The principle of the cap is right and fair. That being said, its time it was upped to about £2m per year.

Hull's (successful!) business model wouldn't benefit from the abolition of the cap, IMO. Club's (and their owners eg Moran at Wire) more willing to run losses would be the big on-field beneficeries, while trying/failing to keep up would eat into Hull's modest profits.
RL isn't just another business. Firstly, people buy into it for reasons other than financial gain. And also, sports clubs [ineed[/i competition.

Would you expect Hull to spend £2m or close to it, if that was the cap?

Pompey may have won the FA Cup , but they were relegated and have massive debts.
Possibly, a salary cap would have avoided this.

and the Human league are at no1 in the charts

The cap allows a modicum of restraint set in place by the RFL. Not only is this good in terms of the game as a whole as Old Faithful IAKW alluded to but it means one club cannot dominate due to having a backer with the deepest pockets & ensures business viability rather than surviving on the never never as per most if not all professional association football teams.
This in turn protects the fans as huge increases in tickets prices & merchandise would ensure to try to battle the additional costs involved with a non cap situation.

As it happens off-shore accounts are an excellent way of avodiing taxation on ones portfolio, you just have to know how to do it properly (ask Roman Obramovich's accountants for advise specifically they are excellent )

My opinion is RL is exactly like any other business, you spend what you can afford, if you overspend you die ala Leeds Utd
what that would do is get rid of dead wood in super league etc thats for sure .
whats the point in having a salary cap and then find some clubs are only spending half of that cap !! thus producing more often than not half the performance of everyone else!!

its a business first, sport second nothing more

it simply makes the lesser clubs climb the ladder a little and stagnates the bigger clubs...
bit like saying you can earn 100k per year but you can only drive a mini!!
if your sucessful where is the incentive in the cap to become more sucesful.. just stagnating tactics , but we all have our own opinions and the cap wont change any time soon

The likes of Salford, Wakefield, Crusaders, Quins, Cas would all go bankrupt if they spent the maximum cap, right now they hover at about 1.1m and make losses each season.

Either way it didnt prevent the likes of Quins, Oldham etc going bankrupt and others (celtic crusaders, gateshead) having major finance issues.