Okay, i was under the impression that the cap was 400k this year and next it will be 300k unless your turnover is 1mill plus then you can spend to the full 400k


Then i read this on the Leigh board from Steven Gardside.........(steve is a member of the Gateshead board)




So it is 350k!!!!!!! not 300?

The extra 50k will get you 3 good players on part time deals at this level.

The way I understood it we could spend 40% of our income up to £300,000. As far as I know we are hoping to spend £400,000 by utilising under 21s and dual registration players which don't count on the cap. This is of course only if we can generate £1,000,000 in order to keep within the 40%. Nowhere else have i seen or heard about a £350,000 limit unless he was again refering to total expenditure including players who don't count on the cap.

Ours is much higher.

No idea where he is getting £350k from - I've not seen that figure mentioned either in the current cap rules or in the press release about next year's reduced cap.

Then again we are talking about the RFL here, so I would not be the slightest bit surprised to learn that the new rules will include an extra clause4a. Notwithstanding the above, the RFL reserves the right to make it up as we go along as per usual.'"

Thanks for that. We'll see what we can do

Regarding the salary cap. Getting Championship clubs to vote for the reduction was bound to get a positive vote. The poorer supported clubs are always going to vote 'for' as it brings the better-off clubs down to their level by decreasing their player spend. Say Widnes had a turnover of £2M, then what are they supposed to do with the hundreds of thousands they can't spend on players ??