Wighton saga shows it's time for NRL to rethink broken salary cap

Jack Wighton. Picture by Keegan Carroll

The Canberra Times

If the NRL salary cap's working, then I'm the Canberra Raiders' next star playmaker.

Because if it is working, then how do you explain to Raiders fans how their star five-eighth Jack Wighton is even a possibility of leaving the club - not for $1 million more, but $1 million less?

While the Raiders have laid their $4.4 million, four-year offer on the NRL card table, South Sydney were reportedly offering just $3.4 million over the same period.

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