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| Quote morleys_deckchair="morleys_deckchair"its fair play to wigan from me...no complaints whatsoever about this decision regarding the salary cap.
the timing was the issue..... im not bothered though as the wire will beat be beating them home and away AGAIN in the league next season
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The timing is EXACTLY the issue.
Saints had failed to keep Graham despite offering as much as they could afford to; maybe another £100k would have made him think twice.
Maybe he'd have gone anyway, but to introduce a cap amendment which some clubs can benefit from immediately while others have already lost the opportunity to take advantage of it is highly unfair. |
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| Quote Cragganmore Kid="Cragganmore Kid"The timing is EXACTLY the issue.
Saints had failed to keep Graham despite offering as much as they could afford to; maybe another £100k would have made him think twice.
Maybe he'd have gone anyway, but to introduce a cap amendment which some clubs can benefit from immediately while others have already lost the opportunity to take advantage of it is highly unfair.'"
exactly....its really not that hard to understand.
i bet saints would have loved this cap change rule to try and keep graham.
as good as sam tomkins is..... you could easily say that graham is a bigger loss to saints than tomkins would be to wigan.
props like graham are irreplaceable. |
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| Quote morleys_deckchair="morleys_deckchair"exactly....its really not that hard to understand.'"
Seemingly easy to ignore, though... |
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| Quote Cragganmore Kid="Cragganmore Kid"The timing is EXACTLY the issue.
Saints had failed to keep Graham despite offering as much as they could afford to; maybe another £100k would have made him think twice.
Maybe he'd have gone anyway, but to introduce a cap amendment which some clubs can benefit from immediately while others have already lost the opportunity to take advantage of it is highly unfair.'"
By that reasoning there would be no time at all which would be fair to bring in the cap amendment.
As it stands they'd done it during the off season when the cap isn't live, which makes more sense than bringing it in right in the middle of the season. Teams will still have let players go who they could have afforded, but that could happen at any point during the season. |
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| Quote Cragganmore Kid="Cragganmore Kid"The timing is EXACTLY the issue.
Saints had failed to keep Graham despite offering as much as they could afford to; maybe another £100k would have made him think twice.
Maybe he'd have gone anyway, but to introduce a cap amendment which some clubs can benefit from immediately while others have already lost the opportunity to take advantage of it is highly unfair.'"
I agree totally the timing is off.
But your acting as if Wigan haven't just lost a player to a different sport who was in the dream team last year, and who plays for England? If Wigan had done this sooner maybe they could have kept Joel as well. |
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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"
Can anyone honestly see Wigan stopping at £100k?'"
If we put all club bias to one side, with Salary Cap changes needing to be ratified by the clubs as a whole (I think), why would the rest of the league vote to allow the Wigans, Wires and Saints of the sport to spend £2m for instance when there's already a massive chasm between us and the lesser teams? |
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| Quote Cragganmore Kid="Cragganmore Kid"The timing is EXACTLY the issue.
Saints had failed to keep Graham despite offering as much as they could afford to; maybe another £100k would have made him think twice.
Maybe he'd have gone anyway, but to introduce a cap amendment which some clubs can benefit from immediately while others have already lost the opportunity to take advantage of it is highly unfair.'"
Then perhaps your chairman should have got of his arris and petitioned the RFL like Ian Lenegan had the foresight to do so.
Boo hoo hoo is all i ever hear from the likes of you |
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| Quote Saddened!="Saddened!"Seems the reasons behind their desperation to have the cap increased are becoming clear now:
Is this right? So after all the moaning about the cap and keeping hold of Sam, it turns out they needed the increase to sign an NRL centre after all and not to keep Tomkins.'"
Get a grip, he is hardly going to send us over the cap limit, and Gelling is not even an NRL player. |
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| Quote nathancroucher="nathancroucher"Get a grip, he is hardly going to send us over the cap limit, and Gelling is not even an NRL player.'"
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Quote tugglesf78="tugglesf78"Then perhaps your chairman should have got of his arris and petitioned the RFL like Ian Lenegan had the foresight to do so.
Boo hoo hoo is all i ever hear from the likes of you'"
He did.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -27677937/
Eamonn has seen the need for the the salary cap to be amended for many years, often speaking about it in the press.
www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/sport ... s_1_731140
These things take time. In fact, if it hadn't been for the groundwork done by him in making sure this issue, and potential solutions were discussed and developed over many months, it's unlikely the amendment would have been agreed in time for Wigan to keep Tomkins (until the World Cup at least). |
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Quote tugglesf78="tugglesf78"Then perhaps your chairman should have got of his arris and petitioned the RFL like Ian Lenegan had the foresight to do so.
Boo hoo hoo is all i ever hear from the likes of you'"
He did.
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/st ... -27677937/
Eamonn has seen the need for the the salary cap to be amended for many years, often speaking about it in the press.
www.sthelensreporter.co.uk/sport ... s_1_731140
These things take time. In fact, if it hadn't been for the groundwork done by him in making sure this issue, and potential solutions were discussed and developed over many months, it's unlikely the amendment would have been agreed in time for Wigan to keep Tomkins (until the World Cup at least). | |
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