The Virtual Terrace • Toronto Head to Canada in Top Spot
ThePrinter wrote:
That’s because the Salary Cap has been used to drag down the best clubs to lower clubs level.
If the likes of Man City and Liverpool were only allowed to spend as much as the likes of Burnley or Brighton do you think they’d be as huge an interest in the Premiership? Look at La Liga and the gap between Barca, the Madrid teams and others? In tennis, in the women’s game for years apart from Serena who couldn’t really call who would reach the last 4 of a Grand Slam. In the men’s game it was always usually Federer, Nadal, Murray and Djokovic. The next 100m final at the Olympics will probably be much tougher to call than the last 3 but I bet it doesn’t get the same hype and eyes watching it as when everybody tuned in to see Bolt win as expected.
Don’t confused a more even playing field with being better.
We’ve spent too long holding back the bigger clubs so the smaller ones could try and play catch-up and that’s hurt our sport as your best teams/players are what drive your sport forward. Did Tiger Woods dominating golf hurt it?
Really the salary cap in SL should have hit the £3m mark by now but we’re still stuck around £2m because some clubs can’t even manage that.
I'm not using a more even field as an example of "better quality" however, it certainly makes for a better competition.
However, what I did point out is that some of the bigger clubs of the 80's / 90's, although packed with "star" players, took the game to the cliff edge and a sustainable competition beats boom and bust every time.
You and your ilk bang on about the smaller clubs "dragging the game down" and "holding it back" but, it wasn't the smaller clubs that almost killed the sport, was it ?
It was THE biggest club in England that forced Uncle Mo to broker the deal with Sky. Not from a position of strength but, in desperation, to save his beloved Wigan.
Having said that, the professional era has seen the players become faster, fitter, stronger and quickened the game up, theoretically making it more attractive to watch.
As for the cap, with the addition of the marque player, we may well be close to the £3 million that you suggest but, as you rightly point out, it's immaterial, as we only have 4 ? clubs capable of spending this amount.
It's interesting how some clubs spend their money though and the solution is to throw even more money at overrated Aussies and this will continue for the next 10/20 years as no matter how many Toronto's or New York's we throw into the pot. RL in the UK will still languish behind both the Australian game and in this country, Union.
The expansion dream is, just a dream and regardless of how many N. American sides we throw into the mix, without a substantial addition to any TV deal, which looks way, way off happening, all that their inclusion will actually do, is to stoke wage inflation and reduce the "quality" in the UK.
Statistics: Posted by wrencat1873 — Wed Apr 24, 2019 12:03 pm — Replies 25 — Views 712