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Rugby => ComeAllWithin Board => Topic started by: SiB on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 18:56*

Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Quinky on Wednesday 03-Apr-2024, 13:31*
Enter Marsile stage right.

I'll save Arsile the time ...

We all know that Sarries are entirely innocent of any and all charges levelled against them, past, present or future. It was all just a misunderstanding.

(Please god let's hope he doesn't feel the need to add anything).
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: RodneyRegis on Wednesday 03-Apr-2024, 08:04*
Are we sure this isn't just a recalculation of what's owed? The initial 300k was for 2016 to 2020, this is also for 2020. So I think the auditors have just amended the fine?
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: poorfour on Tuesday 02-Apr-2024, 17:30*
i assume as the fine was £1 for every £1 breached, Saddies felt it much cheaper to take the fine as was and go down, than open the books to what the actual monetary amount would be, gives you some kind of insight into just how much money they were hiding.NO Euro cup comp, the fine they were given and lower attendance cost them quite a bit and still the cheaper option for them. One hell of a property portfolio.

Well quite. And I can remember sitting with a coach at the Quinssa dinner in 2012 or 2013 and being told in so many words that our Premiership triumph was a massive overperformance and that we couldn't realistically compete with Sarries because of how much they were paying their squad, through some sort of property deals. Even back then any coach who had contacts with them knew they were cheating, which raises the question of just how long it went on and how many players were involved.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: BedfordshireBoy on Tuesday 02-Apr-2024, 17:23*
By not opening their books they covered up a huge amount
Enter Marsile stage right.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Mr_B on Tuesday 02-Apr-2024, 16:43*
i assume as the fine was £1 for every £1 breached, Saddies felt it much cheaper to take the fine as was and go down, than open the books to what the actual monetary amount would be, gives you some kind of insight into just how much money they were hiding.NO Euro cup comp, the fine they were given and lower attendance cost them quite a bit and still the cheaper option for them. One hell of a property portfolio.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Mandator on Tuesday 02-Apr-2024, 15:56*
By not opening their books they covered up a huge amount
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: poorfour on Tuesday 02-Apr-2024, 07:46*
If it was “ me being sick” Saracens we would all be baying for them for to be relegated to National 2

If Saracens hadn’t happened… possibly. But Leicester’s total breach is still less than a single year of overpayment to one of the handful of Saracens players that were the basis of the case. Because they chose relegation over opening their books, we don’t know the full extent of how much they breached the cap. We don’t know how many players were actually involved or how many years it went on.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Quinspirational on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 22:54*
If it was “ me being sick” Saracens we would all be baying for them for to be relegated to National 2
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: RodneyRegis on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 22:37*
It’s a further £40k on top of the breach they’ve already been fined for in that year. There probably won’t be further sanction, but it’s compounding something that pre-Saracens would have been seen as a very bad breach.

Fair enough. Relegate 'em.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Quinspirational on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 22:26*
Just 2020 till present day to be looked into now then
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: poorfour on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 21:15*
For 40k? I hope not.

It’s a further £40k on top of the breach they’ve already been fined for in that year. There probably won’t be further sanction, but it’s compounding something that pre-Saracens would have been seen as a very bad breach.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: RodneyRegis on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 20:51*
For 40k? I hope not.
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: Quinspirational on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 20:40*
And I presume there will be a points deduction ??
Title: Re: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: RodneyRegis on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 20:03*
Another admin error then.
Title: Tigers breach salary cap again
Post by: SiB on Monday 01-Apr-2024, 18:56*
Leicester have been fined by Premiership Rugby after another past salary cap breach by the East Midlands club came to light – for a season when they had already been found guilty of an over-spend.

The Tigers released a statement confirming that they have 'accepted and paid an over-run tax' issued by PRL relating to the 2019-20 league campaign.

They have been forced to pay £47,136.91 – the amount of the additional breach – having previously been ordered to pay fines and taxes totalling almost £310,000, two years ago, for salary cap offences between 2016 and 2020.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-13260249/Leicester-Tigers-fined-Premiership-Rugby-salary-cap-breach.html