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Saracens - falling foul of salary cap
By: RCG Date: November 5, 2019, 1:16 pm
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36 point deduction and £5m fine (subject to appeal) for 3
seasons of flouting wage restrictions.
Can of worms opened.
As a supporter of the only club in the Premiership who is not in
debt and has a very clean record on wages I applaud the
investigation. Points deduction and fine seem very high (and
maybe scaled back on appeal).
However consider the teams that have been affected. Had the
point deductions been applied/shared over the 3 seasons in
question then in 2 of the 3 years Saracens would not have made
the play offs.
Therefore, at least 2 sides have missed out on post season games
plus the finalists would have been different.
I feel for the players, team managers and supporters who were
not directly involved (although I cannot believe Mark McCall was
completely in the dark)
Watch this space
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Re: Saracens - falling foul of salary cap
By: Hertsref123 Date: November 5, 2019, 2:59 pm
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Gutting if your a Saracens supporter, or player, the clubs
future has now gone from looking very bright to very bleak. They
Had An academy that was doing well, a hugely successful team,
full of world class players. will those players accept a pay cut
now or will they move, I'm only a casual follower, but I'm glad
this has been found out. It'll be interesting to see how they
deal with this.
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Re: Saracens - falling foul of salary cap
By: reflector Date: November 6, 2019, 3:15 am
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Sounds somewhat draconian but it does seem to have been a pretty
flagrant and persistent breach of the rules. Let's see what the
appeal brings. Perhaps not surprisingly Exeter chiefs who were
denied top spot twice by Saracens are calling for their
relegation but I am sure they would bounce straight back anyway.
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Re: Saracens - falling foul of salary cap
By: RCG Date: November 6, 2019, 9:25 am
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Assuming the salary cap has not been "hiked" I cannot think that
Saracens have cut their playing squad back for this season. Are
they in breach again?
With contracts signed it would be hard to sack any players or
get them to take a cut at this stage.
As an Exeter fan I disagree with our Chairmans call for
automatic relegation but would like to see the playing field as
level as we thought it was
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Re: Saracens - falling foul of salary cap
By: reflector Date: November 6, 2019, 10:33 am
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[quote author=RCG link=topic=1153.msg12734#msg12734
date=1573053908]
Assuming the salary cap has not been "hiked" I cannot think that
Saracens have cut their playing squad back for this season. Are
they in breach again?
With contracts signed it would be hard to sack any players or
get them to take a cut at this stage.
As an Exeter fan I disagree with our Chairmans call for
automatic relegation but would like to see the playing field as
level as we thought it was
[/quote] Probably true about this season, I would think. I can
see where the Exeter Chairman is coming from though. There's no
point at all in having a salary cap unless all Clubs comply so
that those who don't must face the most serious of consequences,
not just to punish them but to deter any others who might think
they could get away with it.
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