Salary cap warning

[Neils]

EXCLUSIVE: Premiership rugby warned against increasing the salary cap https://mol.im/a/12089637 via https://dailym.ai/android

[Brandnewtorugby]

It sums up all that is wrong with the management structure. Vested interests, constant tinkering the rules, not enforcing the ones they have.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

With the exception of Irish, Falcons and maybe Tigers, I think it is probable that most of the others are engaging in wholesale fiddling of the cap anyway. Indeed, it is likely the PRL knows this, but is scared sh*tle55 of the consequences of officially finding out, so they are not looking at all. Nothing to see here folks, walk on by.

TBH, I have lost interest. A lot of good people who don't deserve this are going to go down with the Titanic when this whole corrupt mess gets aired in public, as it will. Rugby players retire, have too many drinks down the pub, with the wrong journo sitting nearby.

[backdoc]

The Saracens financial corruption deserves a novel by Mario Puzo on its own.

[Shugs]

Agree with lots of this. The cap is a fallacy. It?s not worth the paper it?s written on and just provides the criteria you must dodge. The whole thing has descended into a non sustainable farce. Sarries accounts show a ?5m loss from a ?20m turnover. That?s ridiculous. I think a return to amateur rugby is close in England. And yet we have to put up with the likes of the useless Lam telling us it should be upped.

[WonkyWasp]

If the RFU don't check to make certain that the rules are in place and being respected what is the use  of  having any rules/checks anyway?  And when 'certain clubs'  are investigated and found wanting in all directions why does that club get away with and have little or no punishment?   The whole thing smells  -  like rotten fish. 

[Neils]

If the RFU don't check to make certain that the rules are in place and being respected what is the use  of  having any rules/checks anyway?  And when 'certain clubs'  are investigated and found wanting in all directions why does that club get away with and have little or no punishment?   The whole thing smells  -  like rotten fish.

Rotten Fish smell way better!!



However if you try Surstr?mming you might doubt that.

[Sliminator]

Interesting insight into how NFL is run by Tim Cocker on youtube

https://youtu.be/i9D7xvpZ6oM

Particularly the "any given Sunday" principle and more centralised funding

English Rugby needs to take a mixture of lessons from NFL, French leagues and the NRL rather than trying to follow Football.

[NellyWellyWaspy]

Interesting insight into how NFL is run by Tim Cocker on youtube

https://youtu.be/i9D7xvpZ6oM

Particularly the "any given Sunday" principle and more centralised funding

English Rugby needs to take a mixture of lessons from NFL, French leagues and the NRL rather than trying to follow Football.

In the big money US 'sports', a lot of money goes entirely under the table. Uber, uber rich sugar daddy has piles of ill gotten gains in offshore bank accounts, never declared to tax authorities. New super player also sets up their own offshore account. Money is transferred from one to the other. Never seen by any tax people. Player retires, looks for ways to access said funds. Hits a barrier. If the funds are transferred onshore in anyway, questions get asked. Super yacht registered in some third world registry will do. Most end up joining investment/hedge funds. They buy up sports clubs. And so the circle is complete. Except, those clubs are too expensive to buy now, so they look abroad for cheaper clubs/sports to 'invest' in. It is just a way to spend money you don't officially have. It is how the rich and famous the world over behave. Our clubs are their playthings.

[Lwasp]

This isn't the RFU's problem to solve, it is PRL's.

The cap is a self imposed rule of the PRL, it is not a World Rugby or RFU imposed rule. The enforcement, or lack thereof, of that rule is also solely down to PRL. The Prem clubs allowed the breach of the cap to go unpunished the 1st time and set all this in motion, they tried to look like they acted tough the 2nd time but the punishment dished out was for failing to engage with the monitoring process NOT for breaching the cap.

At least rant and vent against the guilty party(ies). For once this isn't the RFU's fault.