Bid to cut National 1 salary cap hits strong opposition

By NEALE HARVEY
CONTROVERSIAL proposals by Chinnor and Old Elthamians to have the National One salary cap slashed by 40 per cent will be torpedoed after failing to gain sufficient support.
As revealed in The Rugby Paper last week, Chinnor and OEs had been leading a charge to reduce the current ‘soft’ Level 3 cap of £250,000 to a mandatory £150,000, while tabling a range of other measures that would have significantly impacted on rival clubs.
Among those proposals aimed at limiting the financial fallout from Covid-19 were ‘null and voiding’ all contracts a...

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