Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"While we might be constrained by the cap I find it hard to believe that the departures of Fielden, Peacock, Pryce, Paul, Hape and Vainikolo haven't freed up some space for some replacements of similar quality. Instead we've signed average performers who surely must be on less money.
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any money freed up by pryce and paul was used by noble to bring in his last batch of recruits, mckenna and bai spring to mind although there were a couple of others too.
Fielden was never on a massive wage which was one of reasons he left iirc, and any money freed up was used on solomona.
Vainikolo's wage was used to bring in tupou and remainder used to fund jeffries,godwin,nero,sykes,finnigan and tadulala - remember we only had hendo,harris,st hilaire and mcavoy leaving last year so 5 out including les and 7 in. cant imagine st hilaire and mcavoy were on big money whereas only one of last years signings i'd imagine was relatively cheap would be finnigan and maybe godwin.
Hape's wage hasnt been used yet and I'd expect this to be available for signings next year. Big thing this year was sorting out court case and i'd imagine hape transfer fee went towards this.