Jungle drums and grapevines have both said Matty Smith plays on Sunday!!!! Came from a good sauce.







Rock 'n' Roll.

Makes me wonder if Tommy has now been ruled out for the season!

Yes. The full quote:



"Cas bosses asked several senior players to defer wages at the start of 2009."



Really? In 2006 Mo argued that players deferring wages in the NRL was standard practice and meant that in the year the wages were deferred the club didn't break the cap and it wouldn't in subsequent years as the cost would be spread out and taken in to account. The RFL said this wasn't in "the spirit if the cap" and that is why Wigan were done, not for actually breaking it.







Exactly and it was Cas who were bleating the loudest about that.







I suppose as he is cup-tied he can't complain if Tommy comes back for the final (if we get there) but what is the time scale on that? If he is fit beforehand he will need some game time so Smith will have to make way.



It also won't help with the most pressing problem - a half back for the semi-final.

Sorry, I mean they said he plays for Wigan. Hope it's gen...







Rock 'n' Roll.

Daddies or HP?

yep, at Craven Park or "Belle Vue"

The ironies in Super League know no end.



The so-called Tigers were ready to disappear up their own collective fundament when we did that in 2006.



What a bunch of phonies.

Heinz 57. That means it could be 57 to 1 it's correct!







Rock 'n' Roll.

depends whether they were over the cap before the deferred payments, think it was the fact the players agreed not to take the money and treat it as a loan to the club so it was still part of the salary cap for that year

Check out pemps sig I got told season over when he did it now this confirms it

Confirmed on Wigan Today. In some ways could be disruptive though. Half backs for Wakey likely to be Finch/Smith, Leeds semi Finch/Lockers? www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-4714039

Confirmed on Wigan Today. In some ways could be disruptive though. Half backs for Wakey likely to be Finch/Smith, Leeds semi Finch/Lockers? www.wigantoday.net/sport/wigan-w ... -1-4714039

Before some jump in feet first and do exactly the thing they accuse other team's fans of with regard to us, the Wigan and Cas deferred payments situation doesn't look the same.



We got done because what was paid and then the payments that were deferred added to more than the cap in that particular year. i.e. we signed Fielden and Dobson and the only way we could pay wages under the cap was to get some player to agree to deferred payments, completely ignoring the fact a basic accounting principle (upon which the cap is based) is that payments relate to when services were received, NOT when they were actually paid.



In the Cas situation it looks like due to financial problems they simply couldn't afford to pay some players, but contracted payments in 2009 didn't break the cap limit, even though some were paid later.