: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:01 pm  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

3) we should always retain some space for contingengy cover, or in case we get the opportunity to bring a "star" in. If someone like Darren Lockyer made himself available for a couple of months at the end of the year, I would expect Saints to be in the running for him - and to do that we would need some salary cap space. Likewise, if we lost Graham, Hargreaves and Fa'asavalu to long term injury now - we would need to bring in another prop from somewhere, so need some cap space for that.

You make some good points there but just to focus on this one for now, can we still do this? I thought the league had brought in some kind of ruling following the Andrew Johns/Warrington deal?

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:05 pm  

Tony Stark wrote:

You make some good points there but just to focus on this one for now, can we still do this? I thought the league had brought in some kind of ruling following the Andrew Johns/Warrington deal?

they have!! You can't do it!!

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:08 pm  

sgtwilko wrote:

they have!! You can't do it!!

Thought so

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:10 pm  

Tony Stark wrote:

You make some good points there but just to focus on this one for now, can we still do this? I thought the league had brought in some kind of ruling following the Andrew Johns/Warrington deal?

yup, the general deal is if a player comes in for a month on say £5000, his salary for cap purposes is counted as 12 x £5000 or £60,000.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:41 pm  

Worry not, Lee will be plying his trade over on yorkshire next year

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:10 pm  

BOYD2 wrote:

Worry not, Lee will be plying his trade over on yorkshire next year

That's really rather vague, I mean in a way he already does a few games a season at least.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:26 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote:

The cap saved could be used on improving contracts and/or signing a prop.

I agree with your sentiments, but Long is definitely going and he's likely to be joined by Cayless and maybe Cunningham. That's potentially 3 big earners leaving with room already available on the salary cap from this season.

Now, I've no doubt we'll renew contracts for some of the younger guys, but I still think we'll have room to bring in a good quality player whether Gilly leaves or not.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:49 pm  

Strong rumour he's HKR bound next season.

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:52 pm  

BORIS THE SPIDER wrote:

Strong rumour he's HKR bound next season.

From Hull KR...

: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:21 pm  

Well, they do have the biggest and best rumour mill in the game...