I can't help feeling that the club has come off worse after releasing Fielden and O'Carroll (last season). Epsecially in Fielden's case as he will have been on a big contract.

The club has stood by these players, used their time and resources to support them in regaining their fitness and then released them and not gained a transfer fee into the bargain.

Seeing Fielden leave is like groundhog day with O'Carroll, on the one hand you need to say the club should honour the contract but the loss of salary cap space is frustrating.

A solution would be to de-register a player with an injury which required more than 12 months rehab or put them on a lesser contract (no sure on the legalities).

Part of me feels bitter towards Fielden for using the club and basically stealing a living for nearly two years. However he has signed a contract and needs to earn a living like everyone else.

What was the point of him playing against Saints then not in the playoffs?

I could imagine IL going mad behind closed doors with the loss in revenue!!

Thoughts?!

Both have spent more time on the treatment table than the field in the last 2 years and in fieldens case he would have been on too much to be worth offering him a contract. In O'Carroll's case as well as injuries he's not the experienced, "enforcer" prop that a lot of people think we are lacking for 2013. Correct decision to let both go.

It was absolute madness to play him against Saints.

Does that mean all of his wages counted on the salary cap this year because of that 1 appearance?

I was hoping somebody knew?

I hope not when we could have brought someone else into the club.

Don't the top 25 earner's wages count on the cap regardless of whether they play or not now? I struggle to keep up with it tbh.

The RFL probably don't even know so it's anybody's guess.

The salary cap rules are on the RFL website. They're easy enough to find, and have been posted on here many times.

Care to answer the OPs question then seeing as you have enough time to read through them all?

The answers are in that document.

Lazy sod. You've got noute better to do.

Not very useful at all is it?



Bottom line is both players have been rehabilitated at our own cost and to the benefit of the players new employers!!

Can you please explain were O Carroll would possibly fit into this team??