My beef is Manly were able to assemble a very good squad while being in breach of the cap, other sides were disadvantaged as the could not fairly compete in the player market with Manly. Okay they may be compliant for 2018 and they may have their cap reduced by 400g, but the bottom line all of their quality players will be running around in 2018, plus Joel Thompson. If you want clubs to take the cap seriously you have to come down like a ton of bricks, but the NRL are so weak they do not want to upset their media partners, its not good for ratings if one team is basically out of contention from round 1 due a cap penalty.
I sent off a email to the NRL complaining about the above and got back a weak as p.ss reply. Saying how vigilant the NRL police the cap.
anyway merry xmas all and lets hope 2018 is a very good year for us long suffering WT supporters