Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 3:59 pm  

Not sure what to make of this right now. Super League finally appears to be levelling out in as much as the top 6 are relatively close together, and there is certainly no given matches each week now. Will this not tip the scales back in the favour of those with a shedload of money to spend?

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:02 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Worth pointing out those are the values that would count on the cap. So we couldn't get Inglis for £175k. But if we did secure him for say £1.2m per season, only £175k would appear on the cap.

I get it now then. Obviously the RFL won't alow teams to pay what they can't afford

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:13 pm  

St pete wrote:

I get it now then. Obviously the RFL won't alow teams to pay what they can't afford

There is mention of an 'income v outgoings' assessment, but vague as to what that means. Koukash is celebrating the ruling and throwing offers around as we speak, but you would expect Salford to have the least income in SL so would be hard to see how they will pass the assessment, unless they count handouts from sugar daddies as 'income'.

I don't like the rule, I think it encourages clubs to spend money they don't have in place of developing their own. I would have much preferred exemptions to be based on club developed players, so you can actually keep those you produce.

What you can see coming now is the 'I want more' approach from Marwan and Wigan. They've got their free pass to spend more, which they have craved since the new owners came in. Now take Wigan as an example, they would be daft to not use the marquee player rule on Sam. It would keep a huge chunk off the cap and allow them to spend it on other players. If they don't use it on him, they would lose £75,000 of cap room. But once the next young player is discussing terms with the NRL or Union, they will be out with the placards again demanding another marquee allowance in order to score a moral victory for RL and keep their player.

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:16 pm  

It would make sense to get jammer back

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:15 pm  

Whilst agreeing in principle with the ruling I would also have liked some of the tv money be ring fenced to ensure the return of U23 / reserve grade rugby. As I stated in the "Saints sign 2 beasts" topics Catalan should be in that structure.

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:17 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Whilst agreeing in principle with the ruling I would also have liked some of the tv money be ring fenced to ensure the return of U23 / reserve grade rugby. As I stated in the "Saints sign 2 beasts" topics Catalan should be in that structure.

Completely agree. The continued absence of an U23 competition is only harming player development.

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:18 pm  

To sign Graham we would have to buy him out of his current Canterbury contract. We would then have to stump up enough for his wages which are currently at £355k so it would require a lot of money for the club to find!

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:36 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Whilst agreeing in principle with the ruling I would also have liked some of the tv money be ring fenced to ensure the return of U23 / reserve grade rugby. As I stated in the "Saints sign 2 beasts" topics Catalan should be in that structure.

Scrapping the u23s is the biggest mistake rugby league has made in years. It's one of the first things Id bring back.

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:40 pm  

St pete wrote:

It would make sense to get jammer back

Wouldn't say no to a front 4 of Graham, Walmsley, Amor and Tasi!

Hopefully we'll see a return of u23 next year (I believe there are plans for an "optional" league) and further incentives for youth development (75k isn't alot compared to the cost of finding, training and making a "marquee")

Re: Marquee player rule - Approved : Wed Jun 03, 2015 6:43 pm  

Can,t see this ruling having a lot of impact, for me a marquee means just that and should be a creditable value of £200k and £300k respectively at least.