Saracens New Signings and Contract Extensions

ChequeredJersey wrote:Phil Vickery?

yappysnap wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Phil Vickery?

Nah it came as a shock but I heard he's retired

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:

yappysnap wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Phil Vickery?

Nah it came as a shock but I heard he's retired

Morgannwg wrote:Anyway sorry to be a dullard, but does the salary cap cover just the salaries of players? Or players and coaches? Does it exclude other running costs? Do Sarries get sponsorship through Vodacom still and can they use this to pay players wages?

So additional funding from an external source would likely not be counted for if and when the RFU impose the ruling for breachers of the salary cap?

beshocked wrote:Paul Doran Jones to Quins.

AlastairW wrote:

MotelMoneyMurderMadness wrote:There were some interesting suggestions on the bbc have your say page about how sarries are paying. Not going to repeat them here..

Avoid those pseudo-boards. They are the plague, full of WUM's and ignorance. Some of the comments on all there defy belief!

Hood83 wrote:

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:

BigTrevsbigmac wrote:

sirtidychris wrote:Definatley more starting competition for johnson at sarries, the only thing i can think of is obviously they have offered him more wonga and his brother obviously bigged it up, both these moves are probably down to elder brother influences !

Yes & in Billy's case his father too I guess.

Billy and Mako's dad is their agent. There are some fairly uncomplimentary comments about him on the DW forum. Needless to say Wasps fans are very disappointed, and angry, with Billy V.

Dai Young's comments...

here

I thought Young's comments were fairly restrained, and pretty decent. Sarries are going to be a helluva team next year, but I still find them impossible to love. It worries when a player of Vunipola's ability, who is being developed so well, moves at an early stage in their career, think Alex Gray languishing on the Irish bench. I hope BV finds himself back at Wasps at some point, or even better, at a resurgent Falcons!

GeordieFalcon wrote:

Hood83 wrote:

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:

BigTrevsbigmac wrote:

sirtidychris wrote:Definatley more starting competition for johnson at sarries, the only thing i can think of is obviously they have offered him more wonga and his brother obviously bigged it up, both these moves are probably down to elder brother influences !

Yes & in Billy's case his father too I guess.

Billy and Mako's dad is their agent. There are some fairly uncomplimentary comments about him on the DW forum. Needless to say Wasps fans are very disappointed, and angry, with Billy V.

Dai Young's comments...

here

I thought Young's comments were fairly restrained, and pretty decent. Sarries are going to be a helluva team next year, but I still find them impossible to love. It worries when a player of Vunipola's ability, who is being developed so well, moves at an early stage in their career, think Alex Gray languishing on the Irish bench. I hope BV finds himself back at Wasps at some point, or even better, at a resurgent Falcons!

Actually Hood i think our back row options are excellent at the moment...
Its interesting to see what Gray is going to do with himself...wonder if her regrets leaving us?

formerly known as Sam wrote:

So additional funding from an external source would likely not be counted for if and when the RFU impose the ruling for breachers of the salary cap?

Immaterial of where the funding comes from you are only allowed to spend, 4.5m plus up to 300k on a marquee signing adding another 240k for the RFU bonus scheme (if you qualify). That covers all senior players and any academy players that play 10 or more games. That should include wages, benefits in kind and I'd imagine there's a restriction on family jobs. That is how I understand it, I stand to be corrected.