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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3585283, member: 9052"] Yeah that's like a pro rata approach where your salary cap is effectively reducing as the year goes on. The issue that comes with that are the grants provided by the NRL. I think last I heard the grant was $13m to cover the salary cap and then extra on top because the clubs wanted more money... but mostly it's there to ensure each club can pay the wage bill to compete in the comp. At the moment clubs are required to spend 95% of their cap by a certain point of the year, which ensures that clubs are spending the grant on what they're meant to and they can't just pocket the grant and field an absolute garbage team at 20% spend of the cap. Under a pro rata teams wont really be able to spend the 95% unless they have their top 30 sorted from day 1. If a team was well under their cap at the start of the year it would keep reducing and they wouldnt be able to catch up to it which would mean they can then pocket a fair chunk of it and get nowhere near 95% spend. My understanding of the cap as it currently stands is that they basically start with the full salary cap on Nov 1 and then it gets accumulated each month through wages... like a lump sum. A way the NRL could control it and allow pro rata to happen as well is if the NRL just paid each club's wage bill each month. That way the grant is still being used for the salary cap as intended and clubs can only access it by signing players. They could also include a pro rata beyond a certain point... like end of March or start of Origin... so from that point onwards the cap reduces, but the actual value remains the same and clubs and mercenaries arent being rewarded as much by the longer they hold off signings. [/QUOTE]

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