You are ten million times more likely to be involved in a road traffic accident if you are in a car than if you are sat on your sofa at home.

That my little friends is a genuine, gold-plated factoid.

Who worked that out?

Some bloke from a University.

Wore a lab coat and had a massive research grant from the EU - the bloke, not the University. A University in a lab coat would just look stupid.

Yes, actually as far as the salary cap goes Briers has taken a pay cut. Any club with a player who has been there for more than 10 years can reduce the salary by half upto £50k.

Source RFL website

But you can only do it for one player.

Not exactly true. A club can deduct half of a players salary up to a maximum of £50k for salary cap purposes. However, that rule applies across an entire squad, not per individual.

We at Leeds have 2 players already in that position, Sinfield and JJ-B, with Senior and Diskin to follow next season. Assuming all 4 players are still here we can still only deduct £50k, and not £200k (£50k per player).

We've only got briers for another 12 months so thats fine, the following year paul wood is eligible though I doubt he is on anywhere near £100k.

It's the amount that's restricted, not the number of players. Technically if you were only paying each player £10k per annum you could use it on 10 players.

and £50k is what Sinfield will be getting paid. i've said it once and i'll say it again, jog on

as far as the salary cap goes im expecting quite a few players to be leaving wire this season for example johnson to wigan and maybe even the rumours would be correct linking you lot with westwood i wouldnt want to lose westwood but if we were to get sinfield out of it then i believe ben harrison would be a great replacement for westwood would you lot be interested in westwood ?

Whatever the ins and outs at wire sinfield won't be involved in any move away from leeds and i'm surprised it's lasted this long.
Westwood was discussed in depth on here before he signed his new deal at your place.
I personally think he works very hard but is a liabillity and given our disciplinary record the last thing we need is another penalty machine.

but what you do want is some more players who work extremely hard and wear their heart on their sleaves. if we werent to get sinfield then we would really need myler as we have no half back options anymore especially with monaghan going back to his position at hooker