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gerg_861 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Jun 2017 Location: Ealing Status: Offline Points: 2615 |
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35 point deduction for Salary cap fiddling. Will we be seeing another London club on here next year? At current tables we'll have four London teams next year:
Ealing, London Scottish, Richmond and Saracens
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Brizzer ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Location: Jersey Status: Offline Points: 3398 |
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Ouch! that has got to hurt.
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Cannon ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Location: 20m behind play Status: Offline Points: 1473 |
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Will they breach the Championship salary cap?!!? lol
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Rucks and mauls may bust my balls, but whips and chains excite me!!
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Cannon ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Jan 2010 Location: 20m behind play Status: Offline Points: 1473 |
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Sadly I think they'll stay up this season.
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Rucks and mauls may bust my balls, but whips and chains excite me!!
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Brizzer ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Mar 2012 Location: Jersey Status: Offline Points: 3398 |
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Could you imagine Saracens and Newcastle in the Championship next season?
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Deva Delinquent ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 24 May 2017 Location: Chester Status: Offline Points: 1892 |
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Are they going after the rest of the clubs ignoring the salary cap? Sarries are probably the biggest offenders, but surely they can't be the only ones to be sanctioned?
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Stalwart ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 22 Nov 2011 Location: Penzance Status: Offline Points: 2146 |
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Does this also mean that many of their players will have to take pay cuts?
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donnyladinsheffield ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Location: er...Sheffield? Status: Offline Points: 1144 |
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By the time they are done investigating we might find London Welsh's bonus point in 14/15 was enough to win the premiership
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He's alright and he don't care; He's got thermal underwear
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gerg_861 ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 Jun 2017 Location: Ealing Status: Offline Points: 2615 |
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I'm sure that they'll appeal, but the "extra pay" was in the form of joint investments. I don't know if they will have to divest those or what will happen. Regardless of whether or not they get relegated, at the very least they will struggle to make the Champions Cup.
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knightandday ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Doncaster Knights Joined: 21 May 2007 Location: Lincoln Status: Offline Points: 1764 |
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My betting is that the extension to the Premiership will happen at the end of this season. No relegation, Newcastle promoted. Drawbridge up.
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Winning isn't everything, it just makes the beer taste better
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Bigmal ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Location: BRISTOL Status: Offline Points: 1480 |
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Some big earners at Sarries who are also Eng squad members - what happens if they need to go to France to maintain their lifestyles? That could hurt the home nations. It raises the wider issue of the viability of rugby as a spectator sport at top club level.All the Prem teams need large squads of quality professionals. Can these squads be supported via modest ( in some cases) gate receipts, minimal tv revenue and local sponsorship? How do Sale afford to import a large squad of SA players or indeed Bristol a £1m fullback? No doubt this debate will run and run but one thing is for sure if the Prem is going to expand it will have to have a better TV deal. Finally I have no doubt that the decision will be appealed and it may well be that the "special" arrangements found to be legal.
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Old Gold ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 1211 |
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Robb ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 24 Jan 2017 Location: South East Status: Offline Points: 1533 |
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Nah, they even said that last season they'd have stayed up had the deduction been added. They'll survive as long as they keep their overpaid team together. Then they can win the Challenge Cup at a canter next season.
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OldNick ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 20 May 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3414 |
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Yes, 35 points would have still left Leicester and Newcastle below them.
I am sure that safety net didn’t come into their calculations! |
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Richard Lowther ![]() Coaching staff ![]() ![]() Moderator Joined: 19 May 2007 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 6574 |
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I'm pleased that this has finally been dealt with and punished accordingly, but alas I feel we'll see a successful appeal and business as usual...
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Camquin ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: Cambridge Status: Offline Points: 11258 |
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Or a decision to increase the size of the premiership meaning no relegation thus saving Saracens and Yorkshire
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Sweeney Delenda Est
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Fat Albert ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Status: Offline Points: 1967 |
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a Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother
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FHLH ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Cambridge Joined: 19 Apr 2009 Location: Cambridge Status: Online Points: 5331 |
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A cynic might say that the Leeds outcome has something to do with the ongoing Sarries investigation then underway.
My question is who gets the £5.4m fine? |
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"My father told me big men fall just as quick as little ones, if you put a sword through their hearts."
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Rabbie Burns ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 3333 |
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I smell ring fencing 😡
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So many Christians not enough Lions
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Count Ford ![]() World Cup Winner ![]() Joined: 20 May 2017 Location: WA4 Status: Offline Points: 412 |
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I'm sure they'll appeal, but I think they are lucky with their punishment considering its repeated breached. They could have had some of their titles wiped from the record.
Liklehood is that they will still stay up anyway |
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