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Saracens face Premiership relegation if found to have breached salary cap again
The defending champions received a 35-point deduction and a £5.3m fine in November, having broken the cap for the past three seasons.
However, there is widespread belief they will once more struggle to get under the £7m limit this season.
The BBC has learned Saracens have been told to comply with the rules immediately or face relegation.
The defending champions received a 35-point deduction and a £5.3m fine in November, having broken the cap for the past three seasons.
However, there is widespread belief they will once more struggle to get under the £7m limit this season.
The BBC has learned Saracens have been told to comply with the rules immediately or face relegation.
Even if they are relegated, what use is that to a team like Munster, relying on its Academy players in the European competition. Eliminated, do not pass Go, do not collect £200. We have a 20 year old academy player at 10, because we don’t have 7 million pounds to throw to winning at all costs. Shamateurism has come full circle.
Cheating, is cheating. However you wish to dress it up.
Racing Métro 92 is an other All Star outfit. Their stadium gets to choose what images they show to the TMO. While Wayne Barnes came across as confident that Teddy Thomas was, both on side for the pass, and having not grounded on the dead ball line. It would have been nice to see the reverse angle, from the camera 5 meters from the grounding. The very fact the French TV refused categorically to show the images, lets us imagine those images showed the try was not valid. ( Otherwise they’d have been happy to show them to the TMO, right?)
Forget about Munster’s elimination, for the moment. The final will take place in France, and there people will choose to provide images to the TMO, or not. As suits them. Get away!
Their sound man gets to play loud music to drown out the Munster travelling support when he chooses. Sorry, Munster’s up the jumper rugby may not be what TV audiences want to pay for, but when the only way to way to win, is to deny possession to the opposition, then that’s where the smart money is.
Nobody is asking for preferential treatment, just a level playing field, that’s all. And Wayne Barnes rolled over far too quickly, on this thorny issue. How about “ Excuse me, if I wish to see the reverse angle, you will comply, or face a Hefty fine from EPCR.”
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