Cibaman wrote:
Wigan didnt actually breach the salary cap. They negotiated an exemption in respect of contracts signed before the salary cap was introduced. It could be argued that the RFL should not have granted the exemption but that's not the same as Wigan breaching the cap.
I think reference was actually being made to the time when we signed Stuart Fielden, which would have taken us over the cap had we not renegotiated several other contracts to allow him to fit in under the threshold. Despite that we were told we'd breached the "Spirit" of the cap, and got fined anyway. Brian Noble asked the obvious question, seeing as we were being fined anyway, could we go back and "actually break the cap now?"
The answer was no.