What a joke.

Look on any financial recruitment website and you will see exactly what auditors working for the large audit firms receive. This shold be a high profile role where by the minimium criteria should be to be a qualified auditor/accountant and as a desirable have some form of legal understanding of contracts.

I would have thought circa £40k.

It shows that the RFL care little about the salary cap and investigaing it and all reality care very little if a club actually breaches it. So long as the game is seen publically to be clean then why not turn a blind eye.

I deal with this kind of situation in my professional life all the time, and I always feel the need to ask why the individual involved didn't feel the need to blow the whistle when they first became aware of the practice, rather than as they're exiting the organisation and looking for some kind of golden goodbye; or in this instance, why didn't Keef feel sufficiently outraged to expose the salary cap breaches he seems to have intimate knowledge of [ibefore[/i he'd retired and had a book to sell?

It calls into question his motivation and casts doubts on his credibility, don't you think?

I believe the fund established for this was 'Club GB'

Why would he want to upset his pay masters?

Everyone know the RFL turn a blind. I've mentioned this before but at the game I went to in Perpignan the Catalans merchandise caravan at the front of the ground was staffed by 4-5 very pretty Australian ladies. I am betting they were wives/partners of Catalans Australian players. Now they may have been on the min wage but somehow I doubt it. Wouldn't have taken Inspector Frost to see what was happening there!

Exactly. But if those wives were employed by 'Perpignan Merchandising Inc' for example, the RFL would never even look into it.

It just seems they run it on an assumption of trust and don't go any deeper than checking bank statements to payroll records.