www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... /9383595/- It would make things interesting if he owned a club in Australia too.

www.sportinglife.com/rugby-leagu ... /9383595/- It would make things interesting if he owned a club in Australia too.

He could get around the salary cap by getting Newcastle to pay the bulk of a players wages and Salford just a token amount.

How? as the Knights are also on a Salary Cap.

The difference is the NRL wouldn't even begin to tolerate that

If its anything like ours then he should be able to pay people who aren't playing for the club as much as they want. However I am basing this on knowledge of the SL salary cap and not NRL.

NO but can he not loan a Newcastle knights player or players to Salford with no cost on the cap

think they are much more proactive on 'creative' salary capping than they are over here

Imagine who he could drag to the knights... It's a lot more appealing than Salford. Would SL's best talent abandon our completion given the chance.

That would still count on Salfords salary cap.

I don't think so, my understanding of the rules is that whatever Newcastle paid the player would count on Salford's cap.

Salford could pay Newcastle players as much as they wanted without affecting Salford's SL cap (assuming they aren't registered to Salford in that year).
However, if Newcastle were to pay Salford's players then that would count on Salford's SL cap.
How it would affect Newcastle's NRL cap I'm not sure but I would imagine it has similar clauses to the SL one.

A5 Signing of a New Player on Loan during the Salary Cap Year
Prior RSCM approval pursuant to Clause 6 shall be required where one Club proposes to temporarily transfer the playing registration of a Player to another Club. For purposes of determining whether or not approval should be granted, the temporary transfer will be treated as a permanent transfer, ie as if the Player has departed from the first Club (see Clause A4) and signed permanently for the second Club (see Clause A3).
Comment to Clause A5: Any agreement reached between the Clubs as to who pays the Player’s salary (or any part thereof) has no relevance to the treatment of the Player in accordance with Clause A5, above.