Can someone point me to this rule that banned all other clubs except wigan from having a pro team back in the day?

Or could everyone else just not be bothered?

Oh and good luck to the doctor. Loopholes are there to be exploited. If you dont as a management team you are not doing your job im afraid.

I dont have a problem with a cap. Where i do have a problem is that the RFL have done absolutley nothing in the past decade to raise the cap in line with inflation. They also have done notjing to raise the profile of the sport either. There is an article on the wigan board by maurice and dave whelan from around 03 predicting exactly what we have now. Granted they had the wigan clubs interests at heart with their sentiments. But the sport has stood still long enough exactly because of clubs like salford. And now they have some cash they want the rules changing. Well bang your head against a brick wall for another ten years or so boys as the rfl dont even do evolution never mind revolution.

As somone above pointdd out the one area the dr can improve without the rfl being able to touch him is the off the field personell. Brian Noble was as i understand it instrumental in the current training facilities at wigan so they have a good chap there to sort that out.

I'd be happy to see a salary cap exemption for a player signed from outside SL. One per club, pay them what you like. Would see some decent NRL stars or RU players coming into the game and appease money bag owners.

Salford and the bigger clubs may have the money to spend if the cap is abolished but what about everyone else? The amount of money the smaller clubs will be able to spend on wages will be hampered by the lack of money coming into the game, meaning that eventually their best players will go elsewhere and the gap between the top clubs and smaller clubs will just get bigger.

Removing the cap shouldn't be considered until more money is pumped into the league, which isn't going to happen until the RFL get their collective fingers out and do something about it. So in other words, the cap will probably be here for good.

Although Salford claim to be able to spend the full cap, this makes 5 (perhaps 6) clubs, in a 14 club comp that are able to pay the full cap.
No one can deny that RL players earn every penny that they get and equally, nobody would begrudge them an increase but, that isn't the point is it ?

If you listen to the GMR interview , he said spend up to the salary cap , or exploit mechanisms available to him outside of that cap.

Is this putting the game into disrepute or ' telling it like it is ' ? He has asked two things , for Salford to overspend the cap temporarily &/or for the Salary cap to be raised in general .

his fellow director is Andrew Chalmers , ex Auckland Warriors and NZRL chairman, his CEO is Ed Farish , ex CFO of the NRL & Financial Director of Gold coast Titans . so I would say it's a good chance he's been given a good indication of what is actually going on.

The owner is new to the sport and has been outspoken , especially about the salary cap since pretty much day 1 .
Even as a Salford fan I don't agree with overspending the cap, it was put their for a reason . however if loopholes are being used in the present & in the past , if needs to be brought out into the open and discussed , just like the league structure is.

It sounds to me like he is being outspoken to do just that, bring the subject into discussion . before the torches & pitchforks are handed out ..