UK RL Salary Cap : Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:32 pm
I don't like the concept of a salary cap. Think it holds back RL in the UK. Soccer doesn't have one.Now the RFL has a qualified and experienced salary cap policeman, there are a couple of alternative regimes I could live with as a move in the right direction:
1. Scrap the salary cap - but RFL to reserve the right to refuse to register a player's contract if it appears from the club's most recent accounts and most recent business plan that it cannot prudently afford the contract.
2. Keep the salary cap for clubs in the traditional heartland:
Yorkshire
Cumbria
Lancashire/Manchester/Liverpool/Cheshire
But adopt approach in 1. above for clubs outside the heartlands (and there are a lot of them even now - see draw for Kingston Press League One Cup).