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Saracens call for salary cap to be scrapped
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 699199" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Griffiths is just another self-interested club executive, like Wray and the other Muppets; nothing new to see here then. Its not about <em>"growing the game"</em> it about growing two or three clubs at the expense of the rest.</p><p></p><p>Removal of the Salary cap would lead directly to what you have in English football; three or four clubs (with most of the best players in the league) being the only teams with any realistic chance of winning it, while the rest are reduced to either competing for a spot in the Champions League or staving off relegation so they they can come back do it all over again next year. </p><p></p><p>Unrestricted salaries is the path to madness. Sportsmen are already paid far more than their real worth for playing sport. This would just exacerbate the situation but the worst thing about it is that the ordinary fan will be the ones who have to pay for this through increased ticket prices and increased television subscriptions.</p><p></p><p>ETA: Anyone who thinks that salary caps don't give an even competition needs only look at AFL (Aussie Rules). Of the eighteen clubs that comprise this competition, fourteen have competed in a Grand Final in the last 20 years and eleven of them have won it. Richmond and the Western Bulldogs are the only long standing clubs that have failed to make a final in that time, the other two are expansion clubs Gold Coast (2011) and Western Sydney (2012).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 699199, member: 20605"] Griffiths is just another self-interested club executive, like Wray and the other Muppets; nothing new to see here then. Its not about [I]"growing the game"[/I] it about growing two or three clubs at the expense of the rest. Removal of the Salary cap would lead directly to what you have in English football; three or four clubs (with most of the best players in the league) being the only teams with any realistic chance of winning it, while the rest are reduced to either competing for a spot in the Champions League or staving off relegation so they they can come back do it all over again next year. Unrestricted salaries is the path to madness. Sportsmen are already paid far more than their real worth for playing sport. This would just exacerbate the situation but the worst thing about it is that the ordinary fan will be the ones who have to pay for this through increased ticket prices and increased television subscriptions. ETA: Anyone who thinks that salary caps don't give an even competition needs only look at AFL (Aussie Rules). Of the eighteen clubs that comprise this competition, fourteen have competed in a Grand Final in the last 20 years and eleven of them have won it. Richmond and the Western Bulldogs are the only long standing clubs that have failed to make a final in that time, the other two are expansion clubs Gold Coast (2011) and Western Sydney (2012). [/QUOTE]
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