=D> ahh, the last resort argument! It had to come eventually!
As has been brought up time and time again, the breaches incurred by the Raiders in the early 1990's were not due to systematic rorting of the then cap. Due to the incentive/performance based contracts in place at the time for a number of players in our team, and due to the outstanding performance of those individuals and the team, the nominal rate of their contract increased a lot more than the club expected. The 1990 premiership side was not over the cap, yes 1991 was but no more (as a percentage) than some of the 'minor' (i.e. 400k) breaches of some clubs recently and nowhere near the systematic coverup of the bulldogs of 2002.
The reason we kept our stars when the belt was tightened was because Meninga, Daley, Stuart and co. took pay cuts in 1992 to keep the nucleus of the team together. The only name we lost was Lazzo to the broncos.
As for going back to the topic, I followed Super League because that's where the Raiders went. I also watched plenty of ARL, I mean it's all footy, best thing on the damn TV! For you to not watch it is pretty childish - everyone points the finger at superleague but arko, quayle, packer and the ARL were just as guilty as News.
And no matter what competition, it's LOVELY watching the Saints stuff up - and then reading the Leader to see how their rubbish journalists justify the losses!
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