To scrap or not to scrap?

It is a question that has been asked for many years should the salary cap be scraped in the English Premiership but like every argument there are pros and cons to it.

Coaches up and down the land have been saying they need it to be scraped to compete with the French and Irish clubs in Europe and in the transfer market to try and keep top English players playing in the premiership.

With no salary cap in the French and Magners leagues it seems the French and Irish clubs are the big spenders in club rugby at the moment with a lot of players leaving British clubs to go across the channel to play there trade big stars such as Jonny Wilkinson, Gavin Henson, James Haskell and stars like James Hook, Lee Byrne and a lot of southern hemisphere players coming to France and Ireland such as Matt Giteau, Bakkies Botha and Sitiveni Sivivatu and Dan Carter reportedly offered 4m Euros to join racing metro on a three year contract after the world cup.

But then will the small clubs be able to compete with the bigger richer clubs in the league and will it help the development of the national team if floods of overseas players come in but it does also mean that clubs can keep their top English stars.

So the big wig's of the English game has to decide do they want clubs to be more completive in Europe and wedge the gap between the rich clubs and not so rich clubs wider or do they stick with the cap and keep the league completive from top to bottom but risk top players leaving for France to pursue the big pay day.

Another option they got is to scrap the salary cap but make it a rule that you must have eight players in the starting team or twelve in the match day squad to help bring the best playing in the world to the premiership but also give the young English player a fair chance too.