What's happening at Exeter?

[WonkyWasp]

Julian Salvi leaving with immediate effect.  Two games yet to play.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

The wheels have come off the train.

Is the new cap having an effect on squad depth (pay too much for some players and lose key 2nd or 3rd choice backups)? Lee was saying something along these lines, where players (understandably) want more, or at least what players were on 3 years ago, but a team, in order to function, needs squad depth, and that means lower pay per player.

Each team will have players who are not being retained, who have no new club to go to, and as the season progresses, their motivation will potentially wane.

The coaches get the short end of that stick.

[Egret]

Interesting Rugby Pod interview with Mark Evans on salary cap, players wages etc.

https://castbox.fm/vb/489995869

[BdeB]

This is what we should see with a salary cap. A cycle of competing and then rebuilding. Exeter’s experience gives hope that the cap is working. The anomaly is Sarries who cheated the cap to break the cycle and then took advantage of covid to sign players on reduced contracts wh I have are now ending. The test of the cap will be if Sarries are subject to the cap cycle in the next few years.

[Steve from Cov]

Success is (usually) cyclical and Exeter have had their fair share of success in recent years.   

[Chunky24]

Salvi contract ending at the end of the season, possibly looking at an internal (cheaper) academy coach promotion in Haydn Thomas for a few weeks to see how he goes, also making Salvi available for other jobs.

Doesn't sound that unfamiliar a situation!

[Skippy]

To be fair to Exeter, they’ve probably had a bit less than their fair share of success. The logic here is that a good chunk of their golden era looks to have overlapped with the thoroughly undeserved successes of a financially doped-up bunch of Estate Agents from Barnet.

[Neils]

To be fair to Exeter, they’ve probably had a bit less than their fair share of success. The logic here is that a good chunk of their golden era looks to have overlapped with the thoroughly undeserved successes of a financially doped-up bunch of Estate Agents from Barnet.

+1

[wycombewasp]

+2

[mike909]

+3

I get really pee'd off with EA's supporters suggesting we should "get over it" as cheating is what gave them an edge.