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Ok so theoretically if there are 20 players still contracted for next year the club could use the 5% unused to give them an extra 25k this year and take it off next years amounts - rather than significant amounts for small number of players - im sure clubs account managers would have it all sortedNo to first question.. You simply forfeit the last 5% and work on 500k less cap.
Yea to second question but within certain limits which aren't well published or known. Probably at NRL discretion.
It's what keeps bottom teams pegged to the bottom. Otherwise it would only ever be a 3 year stint for bottom placed teams to be at the bottom and they would have to make remarkable recruitment fuck-ups to not climb the ladder.
But since these rules came in, we have seen Knights, Tigers, Dogs and now Dragons occupy the bottom 4 or 5 spots for a good 5 or more years....
It's the biggest blight on the game.
Probably worse than the cap itself.