That was clearly bullshit designed to get concessions out of the NRL. That failed so now they're showing they have the space to make moves.
Penrith claim to be having salary cap issues (part of the whole Jennings debacle) yet they're on quite a spending spree at the moment. Whare, Manu and now Segayaro have been annouced in the last few weeks.
FMD. The Panthers wanted to create room for this year, as with the current injury crisis they are unable to call up any new players from their reserves as this would activate performance clauses in their contracts which would tip them over this years cap.
They were trying to get released players removed from this years cap (they don't count towards next years) so they could call up players.
There is a second issue that by 2014, only a few of their players will be taking up a lot of cap room, hence the trying to offload Jennings saga.
There is no issue with next years cap as the released players will not count towards that year.
As for the Cowboys, you would assume that due to the fact that they have a forward pack filled with representative players, including one of the (if not the) best props in the competition, they will have to offload players.
