I need a little helpw this one.

Fore example, if we loan out Fielden, would all of his CAP space become available for us to spend on another player?

Would then the other club have to pay Fielden the exact same amount as we are paying him, or are his wages from the club he's loaned out to re-neg'ed between him and his new club?

If we loaned a player out to Salford and they were willing to take all of his wage on board then that would free up his entire salary. If they were only willing to pay half then we would pay the other half and only half would be freed up.

But if this player was no longer classed as a Wigan player, then surely none of his wage - even if we were paying half of it - would count on our cap?

Or is that a really stupid question?

i wish you guys would stop using "former" and "latter".
i get em mixed up and ive no idea what some of you are saying

i think its to free up space for gleeson.
i dont think we left enough room under the cap to make a major signing, so summats had to give.

on the positive side..........it doesnt matter how much we go over the cap this year, as a points deduction would mean nothing at this stage.
in fact it might generate more interest if we were on minus x points and trying to get into the plus.........like some footy teams who start off on -15.

I think they are still classed as Wigan players though. I think.

The issue I see arising is if we loan players out and then a couple of our backs are injured for 3/4 weeks, what do we do then? By calling our loan players back they'll go back on our cap.

This is the view i have. Also with the rumours that Pryce has been loaned to Leigh this gives me hope that we are looking to bring someone in.

That can't happen any more. If a signing is set to take us over the cap, the RFL will refuse to let us register the player.

There'll be no more 'one season later' points deductions.

bigger contracts for existing players?

Winning bonus being brought back in? Could well be.

do they refuse, or let the club register the player then penalise them for it?

or as they only have to do a monthly return, Wigan have until the end of April to get their cap in order before Gleeson starts to count.