Quote ="oggy123"Promotion and relegation will never happen again I don't think the rl have proved they don't like this as they can't control who goes up or comes down! As for the new system i think it is a good thing just needs tweaking! A club challenging for super league should be able too spend super league cap! It shouldn't matter too other teams wether Leigh can sustain it really! I'm all for risking it as there is plenty of reward! Id rather watch a team at the top level than a team stuck in the lower leagues playing kids'"
When you say challenging for Super League every club will claim they are. I think it could work if a club will definitely qualify for the Middle 8s, so say there's 5 games left and Leigh are 11 points clear of 5th then yes they could spend up to the cap then if they could afford it. But with people wanting the deadline brought forward for signings then I doubt that this method would work.
Another way to try and bridge the gap would to use the funding a club receives for finishing wherever they do the previous season. Say you get £1m + whatever exemptions is the basic cap. But Leigh for finishing 6th in the middle 8s get 500k, Sheffield £450k for 7th (dont know the actual figures so random figure) they can use this on top of their cap if they can afford it to be used here. Obviously this wouldn't be able to occur for all clubs though. Say for example, Halifax are skint (no idea if they are) if they get the 500k if they can't afford it to spend it on players then they don't have to. So basically it would be at the clubs discretion on what they spend the staggered amounts on. But this would obviously mean there's no level playing field in the Championship as clubs would all be spending different amounts on the cap so would be harder for London etc to finish in the middle 8 positions.
