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Jukesays wrote:
I see what your saying but Without going into too much detail people are looking at this from the wrong angle.
It would make no sense to not spend Sams 75k slot - in effect it's just a figure that we wouldn't be using.
Ultimately if Farrell for example is on 200k then the first 75k of his wages would count and the rest wouldn't - The 125k remainder that he used the previous year would then be allocated somewhere else i.e. for Sams replacement Hardaker for example (And if he's on more than Farrell was the previous year we'll have less to spend than the previous year on the cap).
What happens over 75k or 150k for non trained players is irrelevant
The club will allocate the 2 "Marquee" spots to the 2 x highest paid players who can gain relief down to 75k or 150k leaving more in the "Pot" for the others.
So although no-one may have been named - they will have just chosen whoever to best fit the salary cap rules (Doesn't mean anything changes etc.).
If next year we sign a Big name who is on more money than Farrell (Lets say 260k) but because the first 150k only is exempt etc. then Farrell will stay on Marquee
With regard to the bit I underlined, like what I suggested it is only an assumption. The club haven't said someone has taken the vacated marquee spot but they have also not said that no one has taken it either. You quite logically assume that they will use it for the top earner. This could be the case but it isn't necessarily the case.
Given that we also sold Bateman and Sutton at the end of last season we probably wouldn't have needed to use the marquee slot to be able to fit Hardaker, Bullock and Sammut in. With the plan prior to the start of this season having been to just get through this stop gap season before a long term permanent coach came in, then holding back the slot for a player to be brought in in 2020 rather than letting the stop gap coach (as Lam was and perhaps still is) pick someone for it could be more plausible.
In terms of whether or not the second slot is in use this year you may be right or I may be right but both of us are making an assumption.
Statistics: Posted by wiganermike — Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:36 pm — Replies 101 — Views 9410