As long as you play to the rules of the competition you are playing in, yes.



Does the WCC have a salary cap?

I wasn't aiming it at Bradford specifically.



I would suspect there are a number of SL clubs much deeper in the financial mire than the Bulls are and with much lower assets they could cash in if needed.

No but the Comp they won to earn the right to compete for the WCC does and they have cheated that system thus the knock on effect of been able to compete for the WCC.

Whichever way you look at it mate they "cheated" in a comp which has a direct effect on the WCC.

In effect, yes. The Super League has a salary cap, the NRL has a salary cap. To play in the WCC you need to win your respective competition. They haven't stuck to the rules of the NRL and as such did not play to the rules to get to the WCC.



So next time we're in the WCC, we could take a pick of the best players on British soil, register them in time and play them for the WCC and you would see this as being fair?

Shame really



Fair point overall there are only a select few who could afford such a hefty fine and payback demand.

An unfair one at that. Whilst the Australian team can field a team that gets paid more than the English team the world club challenge will be as unfair as ever.



The English WCC finalist should be able to pick a few players from other super league teams to make it fair IMO.

Or we could have a double rollover the following year and call it the camelot world club challenge

Well done to the Australian governing body for having the balls to do it unlike certain other governing bodies that I wont mention.

But its not just £50k that needs to be repaid - fines and return of prize money is near enough £1m. What view do News Ltd have of this, they may decide that they want no further part and stop funding - i wouldn't want to be associated with a concern that have done what they have.

Or failing that it could have been put towards getting a decent England boss.

It would appear that we are sending an Under 20 squad to Australia to tour at the end of the season. The £50K should be used to help develop these young players for the future of our game.

Spot on, next time I think we'll have the FGB on the bench, Matt King instead of Delaney, oh who else and who says its the best on british soil? Maybe Darren Lockyer might be interested in winning the only thing that has evaded him in his great career. Going by Gilders rules we can have a fooking awesome team the next time we represent ourselves on the world stage. We could offer 2.5K per player from the 50K fund, not bad for a nights work. After all its not a super league or Nrl game so no rules on salary cap.

How many SL winner's rings or Challenge Cup winner's medals does he have?



And which Leeds players from the week before and week after are you willing to ditch?

Hear,hear! They don't mess about do they?