Strahany
Premiership Player
Plenty of ways the cap space could be used, other than just giving it to Billings. Who are all the re-signings this year? Marshall, McKenzie, King, Sinclair, Gresham - plenty there to frontload in order to meet the 95% minimum.
If you give the money to an undeserving player, just because they’re demanding it, it not only sets a dangerous precedent, but could put players who accepted reasonable offers offside, with respect to how they treat Billings, the club, or both.
If you want to make the case to pay Billings the supposed ~$800K, then that’s fine, but you can’t say it’s for salary cap reasons, because that simply wouldn’t be the case.
If you give the money to an undeserving player, just because they’re demanding it, it not only sets a dangerous precedent, but could put players who accepted reasonable offers offside, with respect to how they treat Billings, the club, or both.
If you want to make the case to pay Billings the supposed ~$800K, then that’s fine, but you can’t say it’s for salary cap reasons, because that simply wouldn’t be the case.