Maybe Sneyd's contract is back loaded with an increase in 2026 when we will have a lot of cap freed up?

Chambers said we had spare money in the cap if something came up, Burgess said he was happy with the squad so must have thought he didn't need to use the money just to fill an extra space. And thankfully that's worked out really well for us, but yeah it does make sense if he'll have a wage bump next year.
I do get what you mean Deus about Leyland, but hopefully it will be a case of him learning and progressing each year until hopefully he steps up and starts along Hayes at some point. When we'll have the smallest half pairing known to man ha ha 

The challenge is for Hayes and/or Leyland to take the shirt off Sneyd. 

I'm not sure that back loaded contracts are allowed within the cap rules.  The player's cap value, whilst obviously linked to what we actually pay them, is agreed with the RFL.  It prevents practices such as paying players a lower sallary whilst 'topping up' by employing their partner to work for the club etc.


I'm wondering whether some players may need to go out on permanent loan?

Yes I can understand that paying a partner would not be on, but I cannot see why we could not have a 2 year contract with a player on, say, £80k in year 1 rising to £160k in year 2 for example. In fact I'm sure a lot of contracts have varied terms.