People need to keep their hatin' and not watchin' posts to the hatin' and not watchin' threads. The theme of this thread is entirely different in nature and is a discussion that can be had in a calm and detached manner really.
The OP posits a simple premise, that it pays to cheat. The premise is sound, the facts supprt it. For just a moment ignore the club colours and logos in play and consider the issues surrounding the exposed cheating.
A team wins a couple of Premmys and is later found to have cheated the cap quite substantially. There are tut-tuts but no consequences of any substance other than financial. The titles stand. Win.
Years later another team is found out prior to season's end and is stripped of points preventing them from contesting that year. However two years later, with substantially the same squad, they go on to win the title. An argument can be mounted that they were still benefitting from putting a team on the park that had been built by the cheating. Who cares? It's in the record books. Win.
Some further years later a third team is found out after scoring a couple of titles. This time the titles are stripped and measures put in place to punish them in the then current year. However two years later they are in the running for another shot. Again they still have a core group of players (indeed some considered the best in their positions, if not the wolrd, and in some cases argued the 'best of all time') that many consider are only still playing together beacuse of the initial cheating. They are a big chance to take it out. If so, win.
Meanwhile many other clubs have been bleeding talent to the above mentioned clubs, and others, because they have either adhered to the rules, or have been financially or administratively incapable of rorting the system. They haven't had the same measure of success as a consequence. Loss.
Conclusion, if you can afford it, it pays to try and rort the cap. You may get caught and retrospectively punished. However ultimately the punishments can not, currently, punish you sufficiently enough to damage your future chances if you can manage to retain the bulk, or critical core, of the playing group built up during the cheating. The benefits will come. In other words, win.
Under this current scenario any club not trying to rort the system is denying itself a chance. Some clubs can't afford the extra expenditures required though, so they are at a disadvantage.
I wish my club was wealthy enough to engage in the ploy, or that I was in a position to help enable it.
It pays to cheat.
