IIRC did not the RFL. offer Cunningham £100,000, or something like that to stay at Saints when he was approached to play union ?

Indeed. However I do like the payments, good that the team who developed the player get just as much.

Smailes has basically confirmed we have another £100k to spend. Thought these kind of decisions were made by the clubs?

So it isn't per player but just 1 per club? Because we have Yeaman, Briscoe and Houghton all developed and in England, and Westerman who is England.

Yeah, just £100k to each club that provides a player to the full or knights squad.

The report also says 'Made on an individual basis, the strategic dispensations will be twofold: one for developing a current ETS/England Knights player and one for the club the ETS/England Knights player currently plays for.'

So does that mean that the club the player is currently at gets 100K and the players original training club gets another 100k too or 50k each? God another unfavamable rule from the rfl.