Can a player earn money by being paid to wear a particular brand of boot etc.If so does it count towards the salary cap.Trying to settle an argument,thanks.

Don't know for certain but I'm confident they could and I really don't see how it could count on a teams cap.

IIRC personal sponsorship counts in some way. Didn't Scully have some issues when he used to do the Gillette commercials?

Only if the company involved has any connection with the club - that connection can be something as innocent as having an advert in the programme. If they don't it doesn't count.

That's how Bradford got done If I remember correctly.

Yes, sponsorship of our new assistant coach.

It's a pathetic rule. I was discussing it yesterday. It appears that the only way RL players can earn money is by their basic salary. Do image rights count towards the cap too?

Yep:

Image rights payments are purely a method of avoiding income tax paymets. Nothing more.

Not any more they aren't. Any club that paid players for their image rights and did so without deducting PAYE tax is facing a bill from HMRC. Hull's new owner just had to hand over £1m apparently.

It's ridiculous. So what's the point of a player trying to get a sponsorship deal, earn some extra money and in the process upping the image of the game?



As far as I know, in American leagues such as the NFL, NHL etc, a player's sponsorships are separate to their team's salary cap. ATEOTD, what a player does away from his team shouldn't have any bearing on his team's wage bill.

Exactly. In football or RU, if a company chooses to pay a player to advertise their brand it's so much easier. No wonder our game is in the dumps. The RFL really need to rethink some of their rules, and try to focus on promoting the game and the players to a wider audience. It's so easy to do, adverts are all over the place.