Ellis Genge started a hated debate on Saturday night as he suggested that the Premiership salary cap should be loosened.
The Bristol Bears prop tweeted: “Seeing bottom of table Southampton beating Chelsea at their place even though they’ve spent mental money shows for me sporting leagues can still have competition without a constricted spending cap for every team.”
Reacting to his tweet, one fan replied: “I think you are right to a certain extent. It depends on the spend gap between the top sides and bottom sides. Nobody has enjoyed seeing Man City win the league four times in the last five years.”
A second commented: “I agree, I think capping a teams resources to suit the rest of the league is backwards. Granted it shouldn’t be unlimited but we are going backwards losing more and more players overseas BUT at least we aren’t Wales.”
Another wrote: “Hallelujah! Name another sport that has a salary cap for one league yet expects its teams to also compete against others without one!”
Posting a very different opinion, one fan wrote: “Sorry to burst the bubble, Gengey, but when it comes to rugby union did you not notice that two Rugby Prem clubs recently crashed and burned, and the other Clubs are in various degrees of teetering on the tightrope across a financial Niagara Falls.”
Another wrote: “Disagree if you’re implying rugby should remove the cap here. Unexpected results occur far more often in football than rugby – Stevenage beat Villa in the cup this year. An equivalent result wouldn’t happen in rugby.”
Five changes that would make international rugby immediately better
We’re all slaves to the juggernaut it’s become, but there are still plenty of ways to make International rugby even better.
1. Scrap anthem singers
They’re good, fantastic in fact. However, whenever just fans and players sing an anthem on their own it feels a lot more epic. Listen to this example of Wales singing their anthem as evidence enough…