Rhinos Salary Cap Breach

[Jim Prendle]

1 hour ago, Denton Rovers RLFC said:

so if you rob a bank and come away with £1,000 or £10M the punishments should be different? What if you accidentally overspend by your notional £10M, another club deliberately overspends by £1000, one is intent, which in law gets you a higher punishment, the other doesn't. Death by careless driving often ends without any prison time and a small fine/small driving ban if any, a serious injury done deliberately will get you a higher punishment.

If you continue to hand out low level punishments for gaining an advantage then there is no deterrent to it, clubs will continue to lie and make statements to try cover up their wrongdoing and the clubs themselves have now set the tariff for punishments even lower. why even bother having the rules when even when clubs breach them they get a minor slap on the wrist despite the fact it may have a direct affect on results that can and often does gain them vastly more prize money and even in extreme cases avoid relegation and all the fallout from that happening. We've seen this happening in the past and even the present and yet it'll continue because the RFL have allowed the sanctions to be controlled by the clubs now, not that they were any good beforehand!

But we aren't talking about robbing banks, or killing people with motor vehicles.

We are talking about the administration of salary spending within a minority sport, and you seem to need to get a better level of perspective into your argument if you are thinking of taking it forward.

 

[TheReaper]

4 hours ago, Denton Rovers RLFC said:

if you rob a bank and come away with £1,000 or £10M the punishments should be different?

Dunno about the UK, but in Canada,  yes. Theft under $5000 and theft over $5000 are separate charges.