This is the part I am questioning . Completely false I think..
You can think what you want. You clearly don't understand how it works.
I don't believe automatically the next two highest paid outside the 25 step up. The club can offer contracts prior to June 30 to anyone including external to the club if they have a spot in the roster free and space under the cap.
As I said, the top 25 is your top 25 highest paid players. If you've got players on 80k, and then sign someone on $100k, one of your 80k players drops to the 2nd tier, so you have to have 20k available in your cap (or whatever the remaining portion of the contract is). The remaining portion of the 80k then counts in the 2nd tier cap.
Based on your logic, we could cut someone in February, not sign his replacement until June 30, and get a salary cap advantage for over 4 months as we only have to pay 24 players compared to the 25 players everyone else is paying. It doesn't work like that. You have to have 25 players registered at all times, all of which fit the salary cap rules.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge here can help.....
But what if that person with "more knowledge" agrees with me? Are you going to once again decide you need someone with "more knowledge"?
Based on my understanding we could have potentially 2 places on the roster free still to recruit into prior to June 30 hence all the talk about trying to get Sims on board immediately.
Your understanding is wrong. Unless you can point out somewhere where the top 23 salary cap exists?
If your understanding was right, how could the Titans have signed Olive, Peats and Hurrell this year?
As you have already pointed out, minumum wage for top 25 is 80k. Players outside th 25 would be on less. So what your saying is because two players have left from the 25, two players outside the 25 get moved up into the 25 with an automatic pay increase? I don't think so.
So you think that because other players are brought in, they suddenly don't have to meet the requirements of the salary cap?
Let's say we release someone on 200k on the 1st May and another team takes up the rest of their contract. We've paid 100k (financial year is 1 Nov to 31 Oct so we've paid 6 months) already, so that stays in our cap, but now we've got 100k available to spend for remaining 6 months. At this point, someone else needs to join our top 25. We've got nobody else on 80k, so we have to bump up our next biggest contract, and we'll pay them 40k for the remainder of the year (as we are only paying them 6 months of the 80k).
If in 2 weeks time we sign a replacement, the new player is in the top 25, and the bumped up contract is back down to the 2nd tier.
