Do you think this will help Salford or just make the bigger clubs more difficult to beat?

It will help us and will give the Doc a shot in the arm. (if he was getting disenchanted with life at the reds)

We are in a privileged position in the fact we can take advantage of this, Unlike yesteryear when we would be looking through the window watching the bigger boys playing with a new toy.

I would like to know just who qualifies as a marquee player ? I can't think of anybody playing in this country who would, except maybe Sam Tomkins.

The Marquee player will obviously be the player who is earning the most money at that particular club.

Thinking about it, how does the home grown work (if indeed that's still in existence?) I seem to remember if a home grown player has a certain amounts of England/GB caps then they get a certain amount of their wages off the cap. For example, Wigan could have Sam Tomkins exempt due to the home grown rule, Sean O'Loughlin would also have some kind of exemption and then on top of that they would have their marquee player.

Or am I getting this totally wrong?

Kevin Locke ?

There are exemptions like that. This is why Catalans are generally allowed to spend more than any other club, should they wish.

However, it was reported last week that the marquee player may work like this:

– If said player came through your own club’s academy setup: cap value = £0
– Otherwise: cap value = £100,000

Whether or not this was the version voted through, I don’t know.



I imagine the likes of Sutcliffe at Leeds, who may get £250k+ thrown at him from Union or down under in the next year or two. This is what made me think why Hetherington got onboard with the idea.

Yes. It's not just about bringing great players in. It is also about keeping the best players from going to the NRL or, even worse, to that other game.

It wasn't what was voted through. Club trained player still counts for 100k of SC, non club trained player will still count 175k of your SC. Also teams must pass Income/expenditure rules to even qualify to be allowed a Marquee Player.

Anyone could. You could make Ryan Bailey your marquee player and pay him £1m per season if you chose to. There are no criteria on how it's used.

On your Tomkins point, I'd have Hardaker and Ratchford at his level now.

From what I've been told at least 1 (more likely to be 2) of our current "star" players will be playing in the NRL next season. One of them he have ample back up for, the other we certainly don't!!! I'm not naming names but I think most of you will be able to work out who I'm talking about.

I heard the same rumour last week but wasn't it quashed in yesterday's MEN article?