www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=187915 Hopefully are under 21 academy lads will step up and we can spend more on big players and save money on our own products where others will have to use up cap on full squad!

www.totalrl.com/index.php?showtopic=187915 Hopefully are under 21 academy lads will step up and we can spend more on big players and save money on our own products where others will have to use up cap on full squad!

Bit of a shock, suppose we'll be a bit restricted, but from what we keep hearing there is a clearout in the not too distant future anyway. I suppose it encourages our development of the yoof. Talking of which, I would like to see young Mulally get a bench place at the start of next season on a few occasions.

Pressumably if the club had say players contract on 2+ yr deals and his lead to being close to or near the new cap the could use the dispensation clause and spend more??

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Aye, I'd like to think that is what it means, but it probably has more to do with clubs like Gateshead and Toulouse.

That's as i understand it. We signed up our key players to two year contracts in June.

IMO that shouldn't be allowed, as Halifax KNEW that this was being discussed and was likely that the cap would go down so IMO it should be classed as bad amangement to hand out new deals ahead of this!

PLayers already on 2 years beofre this season should be ok as it wasn't up for discussion! Those signed after say March / April knew what was around the corner!

So we be part time fully now and hope our academy players are decent.Think this cap for every team except widnes,leigh,halifax and barrow.Batley could win the league now.But hopefully our good youth development programme will help us more.Lets hope we get a franchise now otherwise rfl can off.

Dumb dumb dumb. If clubs cant generate enough money thats there fault but why punish Fax, Widnes and Barrow? How can teams build for SL when you have such a small wage? Why not a percentage of your income-would then give an incentive to clubs to do more to bring money in. The RFL are making a mockery of the game and slowly I am losing interest in the game as its just being run by a bunch of knobs who have no idea.

and yours barrow and widnes large wage bill has got you where

equall on points with haven whos wage will be at least a third less,

widnes are already making noises about cutting cost and barrow chairman only last week said he cant continue to pump money in with out other income streams, no doubt the fax BOD will be thinking along the same lines and this will be good news to them as they now have an excuse not to sign all the supposed best players

Surely Haven near enough at cap aswell? Basing this on fact you had a transfer emabrgo placed on you so you couldn't break it that was only lifted recently?

the embargo was due to our finance troubles meaning us near the 50% of income not the full 450k cap

Fev are nowhere near the cap.

Only in RL will the governing body drag the better teams down a level rather than trying to raise the other teams up.

Disgusting.

Listening to SOC I get the impression he is in favour of this.

I agree, we have u21's and u18's, and u16's to pay for as well as a competitive 1st team.

I heard quite a few months ago now that we had meetings with the RFL which were very positive - The major obstacle for us at that time seemed to be the playing criteria. With that box ticked, there isn't a great deal more we can do, so the drop in cap will probably be very welcome to SO'C.

As a seperate issue, apparantly the RFL were less than impressed with certain clubs who may have recenty dumped their youth structure.