Big Picture Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 8 minutes ago, Tommygilf said: They are nearly twice as big, the Salary cap only applies to the first 25 players in a Super League squad, whereas in Union its 45 So even after the cut in the RU cap their players will still get about 1/3 more money on average than SL players at the few clubs which can afford to spend the full SL cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbruce Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 2 hours ago, Big Picture said: They're not twice as big; Bristol Bears' 2020-21 squad lists 42 players according to Wikipedia and SL teams often use 30 during a season so that's less than half again as many players. Even allowing for the fact that the SL cap just covers the top 25 players on a team, RU still pays a lot more than RL now, even after that 28% cut in their salary cap. In SL only the top 25 count on the cap. Unless someone in the top 25 doesn’t play enough games to count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Big Picture said: So even after the cut in the RU cap their players will still get about 1/3 more money on average than SL players at the few clubs which can afford to spend the full SL cap. Depends if you include Saracens or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Picture Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Tommygilf said: Depends if you include Saracens or not They're in the division below, does it have the same salary cap as their Premiership? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Just now, Big Picture said: They're in the division below, does it have the same salary cap as their Premiership? Its saracens, it doesn't matter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbruce Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 4 minutes ago, Big Picture said: So even after the cut in the RU cap their players will still get about 1/3 more money on average than SL players at the few clubs which can afford to spend the full SL cap. I don’t see how with dispensations the top SL clubs will be spending about £2.5m on on salaries. Add to that whatever part of the marquee signings that doesn’t count towards the cap you could easily be close to £3m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Picture Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, bobbruce said: I don’t see how with dispensations the top SL clubs will be spending about £2.5m on on salaries. Add to that whatever part of the marquee signings that doesn’t count towards the cap you could easily be close to £3m. Those will only apply to a handful of players at the few clubs which can afford to pay out that much. With half (or more) of the SL clubs spending less than the full cap the SL average will still be much lower than the RU Premiership average even with those dispensations figured in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Big Picture said: Those will only apply to a handful of players at the few clubs which can afford to pay out that much. With half (or more) of the SL clubs spending less than the full cap the SL average will still be much lower than the RU Premiership average even with those dispensations figured in. Leeds, Wire, Catalans, Wigan, Saints, Hull and Huddersfield will certainly be spending up to cap as they have marquee players. Cas won't be far off and even with the funding discrepancy I doubt Leigh will be miles away either (though on less good players given the difficulty recruiting for the championship). KR very much depends on which way the wind is blowing it would seem. Only Salford and Wakefield are openly and consistently way below cap - not half or more of the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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