Salary cap breach - Rugby League
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If they broke the rules then they should be fined and docked enough points to make sure they cannot escape relegation this time. Especially if it has happened for the last 2 seasons.
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They will get fined and get a 4 to 12 point deduction, but the points deduction will come off this season and they will have escaped relegation last season by overspending and in doing so Castleford who were just behind them in the league got relegated.
Wigan also bought a player that Castleford were trying to buy. The thing is that Wigan offered him a very big payment and so he went to Wigan instead of Castleford. BTW they (RFL) have changed the rules as of next year, so that this can't happen again. |
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If i remember rightly Wigan were a good few points ahead of castleford at the end of the season and were closer to being in the playoffs than being relegated. You could argue that its the RFL's fault for allowing things like this to happen and have now finally realised this and changed the rules for next season.
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Here's the 2006 RL league table : -
St Helens 48 pts Hull FC 40 pts Leeds Rhinos 38 pts Bradford Bulls 34 pts Salford City Reds 26 pts Warrington Wolves 26 pts Harlequins RL 23 pts Wigan Warriors 22 pts Huddersfield Giants 22 pts Wakefield Trinity 20 pts Castleford Tigers 19 pts Catalans Dragons 16 pts *Exempt from relegation* *Wigan deducted two points for salary cap breach the year before* So you could say that Wigan had more points before they had the 2 points removed. |
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Is Wigan still owned by Dave Whelan, the same person who kicked up a fuss about West Ham not having points docked? ;)
Can't wait to read what his view is... ;) |
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Yup, Dave Whelan owns Wigan RLFC.
;) It's a sorry state of affairs when a team that doesn't cheat and gets relegated, loses the Sky TV money, loses most of it's players and now has smaller gates with less money because another team allegedly cheated. BTW another good read is here Quote:
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I think it's down to the degree that the cap is broken. Cas made a small error and went over the cap a little bit. Wigan went way over the cap.
:shocked: It's like one club over spent by a few quid and the other over spent by enough for the RFL to have to dock them points. :shocked: The 2006 season Castleford only had a small squad and no way did they even reach the cap, never mind go over it ! |
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Bradford, St Helens & Wigan
RFL have confirmed three clubs have cases to answer. bulls and saints are to have their hearing thursday 12th july, wigan monday 16th july. :Yikes: |
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St Helens have breached the salary cap three times they are serial offenders. Bradford were guilty of breaching the salary cap. Both these sides hammered Castleford Wakefield were guity of breaching the salary cap and not even punished. Castleford were guilty of breaching the salary cap when they gained promotion from NL1 ---- What did Whitehaven & Leigh say about that? Wigan was the only club last season to get permision off the Rugby League to make the signings it did, Why did they get approval to make Fielding a Wigan player? Answer after they had audited the books we were not in an overspend situation.All is not clear. The only certainty is that those who breach the rules should be punished and serial offenders like St Helens need to ask is their position as No1 CLUB down to their overspend. |
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Looks to me like Wigan robbed us, got found out and will face the music, but Castleford don't even get an apology.
I suppose Wigan will have to have the chance to explain their spending before action will be taken. |
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Well it seems Wigan feel they havn't done too much wrong -
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