No returning players to the sport from RU must not have played RL for at least 5 years. If returning get 50% reductions on cap in year 1 and 25% in year 2.



The 0% and 50% allowances only apply to new players who haven't played professionally before.

Once again thanks Andy.



That is bizarre, pay someone 1.5 million and only 150k counts. Pay them 174k and it all counts. There must be a reason why they've done this but I can't think of it.

I presume it's so clubs aren't just automatically having their highest earner counted as a marquee player to free up space, regardless of whether he is the sort of high value, big name player this rule is targeted at.

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Salary cap to increase, another marquee player, plus exemptions for U21's players. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... per-league'" The U21 exemptions are a biggy for us, the way our injuries have been going! Not surprised the way they have done it, with a trivial increase to the finite cap but better exemptions to it.

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Salary cap to increase, another marquee player, plus exemptions for U21's players. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... per-league'" The U21 exemptions are a biggy for us, the way our injuries have been going! Not surprised the way they have done it, with a trivial increase to the finite cap but better exemptions to it.

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Salary cap to increase, another marquee player, plus exemptions for U21's players. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... per-league'" Excellent news! We're still a long way behind the NRL and Union but we have a fighting chance now of keeping some of our best players.

Quote Rogues Gallery="Rogues Gallery"Salary cap to increase, another marquee player, plus exemptions for U21's players. www.rugby-league.com/superleague ... per-league'" Excellent news! We're still a long way behind the NRL and Union but we have a fighting chance now of keeping some of our best players.

It will obviously benefit us more than anyone else initially but hopefully this motivates other clubs to invest more in youth development.



And yeah it's spot on how they've done it, I wouldn't have complained if we'd have just got the exemptions and the cap stayed the same.

Definitely the way to go.

Get rid

I think the second marquee player allows Wigan to have Williams for another year or two before his inevitable move to the NRL but its about time the cap was raised the living in the past was killing the game,sometimes you have to trust clubs not to go daft and live beyond their means.

I don't think it is inevitable that Williams will leave now. He can be paid what he is worth and play a key role in a team challenging for honours for the next decade.

But to compete with the NRL we'd have to double the finite cap limit; theirs is over £4 million, and Union is even more, I think £7 million. Our sport simply can't match those sorts of figures, with or without the cap. The income isn't there, and even the richest owners wouldn't pay out those sorts of wages, year after year.

We just need to change this pernicious culture that says players will only prove themselves if they 'do it in the NRL'.



Someone should advise these lads that snide comments like this mainly come from fans of clubs whose players are rarely of interest in Aus.



For a reality check, our kids need only to look at Sam T, who after a first great season Down Under, had a second season riddled with injury and subsequently is now ridiculed in certain quarters for 'not having succeeded'.



You don't have to play badly in Aus for their press to jump on you, and enough said about some of the keyboard warrior idiots over here. I reckon it can be a thankless undertaking for youngsters who, in some cases, have barely even experienced living away from home.



Staying in SL is no bad option.