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<blockquote data-quote="die_mole" data-source="post: 1102892" data-attributes="member: 73648"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://apple.news/ARP6iNQy2Q7qeqp_SB2kQFQ[/URL]</p><p>like these quotes by baxter. </p><p>[SPOILER="quotes"]</p><p>"Whatever the salary cap is, you don't have to spend it. I do get slightly annoyed by clubs that are kind of saying, [because of] the position Wasps and Worcester are in, 'it is not fair for a number of clubs to say they want the salary cap to go up'. There is absolutely nothing in any rule or regulation that says they have to spend more than they are now.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"No one ever said to Worcester you have to spend as much money on your players — you are not forced. A fair bit of their financial problems happened away from players</p><p></p><p></p><p>"If a team is happy to spend £5 million and feel it is good for their business there is nothing to stop them spending that. It is one of my big frustrations that a number of clubs will come out and say that it is a rule that if the cap goes up they have to spend to it and that will put them in financial problems. It won't.</p><p></p><p>"That would be like saying if we made the salary cap £20 million overnight then every club would go bankrupt because they would spend £20 million on players. Are we seriously going to say that? That is what some clubs are saying.</p><p></p><p>"We [Exeter] spent years not spending to the salary cap and didn't sit here as a business and fall apart not being progressive. You just have to look at things in a different way and that has to be a club-by-club decision. It doesn't mean you become an unpopular team or the rest of your finances collapse — I have gone through that with this club.</p><p></p><p>"I felt we were a pretty competitive Premiership team spending half of what other clubs were spending."</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>It will be interesting to see how Newcastle goes this year and they pretty much have taken this tactic</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="die_mole, post: 1102892, member: 73648"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://apple.news/ARP6iNQy2Q7qeqp_SB2kQFQ[/URL] like these quotes by baxter. [SPOILER="quotes"] "Whatever the salary cap is, you don't have to spend it. I do get slightly annoyed by clubs that are kind of saying, [because of] the position Wasps and Worcester are in, 'it is not fair for a number of clubs to say they want the salary cap to go up'. There is absolutely nothing in any rule or regulation that says they have to spend more than they are now. "No one ever said to Worcester you have to spend as much money on your players — you are not forced. A fair bit of their financial problems happened away from players "If a team is happy to spend £5 million and feel it is good for their business there is nothing to stop them spending that. It is one of my big frustrations that a number of clubs will come out and say that it is a rule that if the cap goes up they have to spend to it and that will put them in financial problems. It won't. "That would be like saying if we made the salary cap £20 million overnight then every club would go bankrupt because they would spend £20 million on players. Are we seriously going to say that? That is what some clubs are saying. "We [Exeter] spent years not spending to the salary cap and didn't sit here as a business and fall apart not being progressive. You just have to look at things in a different way and that has to be a club-by-club decision. It doesn't mean you become an unpopular team or the rest of your finances collapse — I have gone through that with this club. "I felt we were a pretty competitive Premiership team spending half of what other clubs were spending." [/SPOILER] It will be interesting to see how Newcastle goes this year and they pretty much have taken this tactic [/QUOTE]
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