been following super league from afar and fail to understand how warrington can be anywhere near below the salary cap? How can one club have so many top rated and high earning players in their squad, when other teams have to abide by the rules (excluding Wigan probably)
Getting on my nerves seeing the likes of
Adrian Morley
Michael Monaghan
Matt King
Brett Hodgson
Louis anderson
Lee Briers
Micky Higham
David solomona

all of whom (questionable of a coule i guess) will be earning big wages. I understand they will gain more revenue now being more successful and having bigger attendances due to new stadium, but how can it be ossible they are within the cap?

If I am mistaken, please let me know and someone try explaining to me how they can be under cap regulations.

Oh and if they are over it, they wont get punished this year, but get a poxy fine next year i guess.

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The Cap is monitored month to month, so they must be within it or they would have had sanctions taken against them already. Without knowing what those contracts you mentioned are worth it is just idle speculation on your part that they are breaching the cap which I suspect they are not.

Does make you wonder how two teams (us and them) can spend the salary cap of £1.65 m and be so different on the park, its either VERY clever accounting or VERY good negotiators.

Carvell left us for big money and i would throw Myler, Westwood, Bridge and Atkins into the list of players who would command above average SL pay.

However, it's a live cap, so - in theory - they are adhering to it.

Not saying this is the case at Wire, but if a club has a very wealthy benefactor whats to stop them making extra payments through a seperate account not linked to the club to an account in a far off land with very tight banking security.

I suspect there's a bit of a glass ceiling to be broken through with regards to players salaries and the ambitions of a club.

It's pretty well known that a lot of Leeds' players could probably earn more at other clubs but they've stayed as that's where they want to be.

Most top players will get a decent whack wherever they are so for some it probably comes down to the chances of success at a club as well as the salary. Then there'll be others, such as Daniel Holdsworth at Salford, could have gone to Huddersfield, probably Salford offered him more who are mercenary.

When we signed the likes of Galea and Newton I suspect they probably could have gone elswhere but at the time we offered more cash.

I was told that they have a 'club' credit card which shopping, bills etc get paid through, so the monies they receive via a salary is theirs to do with whatever they want

Can't be done from what I have read previously, all the clubs accounts are monitored, not just the cap and rent, cars etc are taken into account in the total. If they were being so blatant, they would get nailed.

Well they are certainly doing something underhand if thats not the case, its so obvious

Probably something like:

Mr Millioniare: 'Mr Lockyer, I would like you to sign for Hull KR'

Lockyer: 'how much you offering'

Mr M: '200k per year'

Lockyer: 'not enough'

Mr M: 'ok, I personally will pay you another 200k from my Cayman account into your wifes account in Zurich, which I will set up'

Lockyer: 'ok, where do I sign'

RFL: 'we have examined Hull KR's books and all payments to players are within the rules of the cap'

The Warrington board or the VT would be more appropriate for this, but it can stay for now as a general cap discussion thread. =#FF0000Any suggestions that Wire or any other club are not adhering to the cap are potentially libellous - and however much they spend on players, they can still afford better lawyers than us.
Whether there are 'legitimate loopholes' or they just manage the cap well, I don't know. Hudds and Wigan also have great depth. Remember we are a Willie Mason below the cap. Fox and Briscoe will be on good money, despite their form having dipped since 09. Joel Monaghan is probably playing for below his full market value also.