all points for this season deducted! serious S.C. breach! www.nwemail.co.uk/raiders/raider ... ath=sport/

all points for this season deducted! serious S.C. breach! www.nwemail.co.uk/raiders/raider ... ath=sport/

Should have changed the 'Raiders' part of their name to 'Worriers' & hired some expensive lawyers to find loop holes in the rules. Would have got off with it no problem.

Exactly. Same crime as Wigan committed and yet such a different punishment.

IMO Wigan's was worse. Yes they both breached the salary cap, but Wigan did it knowing full well they'd be relegated that year if not. Wait for the Cas outrage now...

at once again singling out Wigan.

Irrational irritations within the sport of RL, Enicomb and Deano G.

singling out?

hardly..... its just a case of pointing at a cheat and saying so.... everyone knows wigan's blatant disregard for the salary cap rules were dealt with VERY leniently..... this case with Barrow just proves that.

This has been obvious for years.

How could they fit Gary Broadbent, Mark Gleeson, Jamie Thackray, Jamie Rooney and Ned Catic all under the salary cap.

I see no problem with that.

And the same can be said for any of there other visits in front of the RFL this year

Barrow did it to get promoted in 2008 and then get in a posistion to apply for SL for 2012 where they were stupid is they should have stopped once won the league in 2009 and focussed on other areas of their side, yet they continued to overspend with 'brown envelopes' won nothing else, not developed as a club and after being caught are now back to square one.

They shouldn't have breached it. End of.

How do you know what happened? Is it an educated guess, a bit of poetic licence, 'we all knew what was going on,' or is it something you've just made up?
No-one apart from Des, and those at the Hearing know what happened yet. just wait until the truth comes out next week.

Nope. The first time they did it they were deducted 6 points, just like Wigan.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, how many times have Saints been done for breaching the cap?

Three.

What have they won since it became a live salary cap?

tb made an excellent post on the VT about this, and I believe he's a Cas fan. Maybe those of you frothing at the mouth should go and read it.

teesidewire, I'm so glad.

So after Wigan got the 6 point deduction for the initial salary cap breach (for using a practice which is now common place across the league), and then systematically broke the salary cap for the next 4 years?

Nah, didn't think so.

Love some of the irate posters on here, could you fill me in to what has exactly happened because no one has printed it or released it yet? Not what you THINK has happened but what has ACTUALLY happened.

"But wuz it not Wigun dat got dun for like cheating and stuff, why are they not relegated?"

Love people that don't have a frickin clue or presumptious just because they don't like said team.

Yed, that's exactly what I've put in my post. It will be very interesting to see what has happened. With Des being banned from any involvement within RL for the next eight years it may be also something more than SC problems. It's all very intriguing.