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Just another question. What are people's thoughts on how the opposition clubs view the compensation payment with regard to the salary cap?
In essence werent we able to retain most of our good players by paying outside the salary cap?
Doesn't this go against the spirit of having a salary cap?
Considering what the compensation is for, I suspect most clubs would see it as punishment to the EFC rather than some kind of salary cap benefit, its not like we have gone above the salary cap to recruit these players, their actual match payments will still be within the cap, also the other clubs wouldn't have an issue with it as the compo isn't coming out of their pockets, so clubs like Port will be like, yep EFC you pay.