The Sarries statement includes "The Club is pleased the Panel acknowledged it did not deliberately attempt to breach the salary cap", is this somewhere in the judgment?
I’ve been wondering the same thing. I don’t recall seeing it in the Premier Rugby Presser.
I think this really needs a bit more transparency... I’d like to see
- What were the transgressions in each of the 3 seasons mentions; The value they were over and the reasoning given by Saracens for the oversight
- What was the panels view of that reasoning and their full verdict. In particular, the context around their ‘we don’t believe it was an attempt to deliberately breach the salary cap’ comments
-35pts and a £5m fine suggests they don’t really believe it to be an accident!