What you don't seem to understand, Jason, is if you cut 12 players and free up $1mil cap space to sign Cam Smith.....you still need another $880k minimum to sign another 11 players to replace the 12 you cut.
Thanks for the basic maths lesson. Obviously you missed the section where I pointed out that not everyone we have cut WAS on a basic salary ergo your sums based on everyone we've cut being on a baseline salary package are irrelevant.
I am well aware that NRL clubs must maintain 25 players under the salary cap.
But people here are taking it for granted that we "have to be" rorting the cap because we are alleged (though of course never proven) to have done so previously.
My point is simply to show that we have available cap space to buy players because we've cut a sh*tload over the past few seasons. Yes a lot of those players will have to be depth or young up and comers on little coin, because that's what the salary cap enforces.
A few of our higher paid players have also been cut and with the salary cap increases and our lack of major signings prior to Barba over many years we clearly have a significant amount of cap space.
I think it likely that even the most rabid anti-Bronco would be willing to concede that spending $2m or $3m or whatever on someone like a Cameron Smith or a DCE would very likely attract the attention of the salary cap auditors, so I'd be astonished if our books weren't as clean as a preachers sheets right now, given the reports of the amounts of money we are allegedly willing to spend that are being thrown around.
