Please ask him about the contract situation.
Was The Daily Telegraph correct in March this year when it reported there will be a $4.4 million salary cap at Super Rugby level next year, which will then be cut back to $4.1 million from 2013 - and the money must be spread between 30 members of a "core playing squad" and five players on rookie contracts.
Within that question ask him if it is a minimum of 3 and a maximum or 5 as it was in the old days, or does it have to be 5? Also - what disqualifies a player from being deemed a rookie? Does any play the previous year, even for a few minutes, disqualify a player?
And what about if there are 3 prop injuries, for example, and the rookies are not developed enough to play in a game yet. If the Tahs wanted to hire a hard head from the Sydney comp be cherry picked into the team in such an emergency does this have to be counted under the cap - or does the team get dispensation?
While I'm on a roll - what about what we used to call the professional academy whose salaries used to be funded by the ARU. Are they now subject to the new academy system and subject to a draft? Or is it just the amateurs that the ARU is going to administer?
Since Link is a good bloke I'm sure he won't mind looking at the 3rd party payments mentioned in the Telegraph article and commenting if it is right:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby/australian-super-15-clubs-will-soon-enter-into-new-salary-cap-era/story-e6frey4i-1226030366024
How many question is that? Probably over the cap, I'm thinking.
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