Warrington currently must be well short of £1.8m!

Any sensible guesses on what it mighy be?

1.79?

Something like £1.8m - Briers' salary would be my guess. As I recall we had a 50% dispensation on that due to length of service. I suspect we have very little room.

Yes, but the dispensation can now revert to Woody or Ben Westwood. You only get that dispensation for one player.

I never realised that T'side, I would imagine Benny is getting a pay rise now.

In my guessing we would have have to give players hefty pay increases to mop up wages of Moz Carvs Briers Hodgson and theres also other out goers Coops Tyke and Solamona and the long term loners.

I dont believe for a second that Anthony England is on a premium wage.
Asotasi maybe a straight swap with Carvell.??

One, hundred, million, dollars

There are quite a few dispensations that can lift the cap up.

I always thought that anyone who had done their time at one club got dispensation, didn't realise it was only 1.

These guessing the salary cap spend type threads are about the most pointless you can get on a forum. Nobody has any kind of idea or rationale to base it on.

For years now, we have been told by fans of other clubs that we were well over the salary cap. How can a side fit the likes of King, Monaghan, Morley, Briers, Hodgson under the cap. "Warrington must be over the cap...". Same with Salford, even on this forum some of our fans have been saying how can Salford be under the cap for next year. Looking at their squad for next year its nowhere near the quality of ours so if they are over it how can we be under it?

Everyone will base these guesses on assumptions about top players being on big money and less big names being on lower salaries but when you deal with anything to do with budgets, budgets soon get swallowed up by what is available, in a lean time for player quality, some players will be on more than you think. I also would not fall for the trap of assuming that players that have come through the youth system will automatically be on lower contracts because all it takes for them is to have been out of contract once and received offers from rival clubs and their salaries will match what they could have earned elsewhere.

The other complicating factor with contracts is they can end up being back loaded to comply with salary cap in a particular year, eg if you were signing a 3 year contract and it was going to be worth £300k over the 3 years, but the club doesn't have £100k space under the cap now, you might sign for £80k this year, £100k next year and £120k in your final year.

Ouch! Rubber Duckie gets a black eye and a thick lip off Sally C.