Marquee player: Semi Radradra of Bristol Bears

COLIN BOAG

Last week the Premiership confirmed their new salary cap regulations in a typically self-congratulatory way, with chief executive Darren Childs proclaiming that they were ‘the right set of powers, obligations and sanctions for the longterm benefit of the sport’.
I beg to differ, and would argue that the cap in its current state is damaging for the game, and needs to be further amended.
The purpose of a salary cap is to help control costs, and prevent a spiral where the clubs with the wealthiest owners simply...