posted this on another topic but no one seemed to know.are teams allowed marquee signings this year?? if so do each team have to declare them so wether it be by a personal sponsor paying there wages they are outside the cap etc and are they exempt from a quota place if so is anthony tupou ours ?

Yes and they're exempt from the cap but would still count to towards the quota/non fed allowance if applicable. I'm not sure if Trinity are paying up to the cap this year so I don't think there is a need for a player to not count against it.

so for example saying in theory a sponsor comes forward and says go sign cooper cronk and im willing to pay him 3k a week would we be allowed to do that or do you have to spend up to the cap before you can make a marquee signing

If you are not spending up to the cap, why would it matter? You can pay what you like.

in theory then what your saying is you can only make a marquee signing if your going to go over the cap so thats favouring the bigger clubs

I thought you can pay them what you want but 175k of it would count on the cap?

or does each clubs cap differ say ours would be significantly lower due to income than say leeds wigan etc thus allowing us to make one , sorry its long winded just trying to understand it.

I don't understand the question. The only benefit of making a signing a marquee signing is to spend over the cap.
If 27 player's salaries come to £500,000 less than the cap you can pay the 28th guy 500,000 without making him marquee.
It's only if you want to go over that you need to invoke the marquee signing rule.

Matter of opinion really, it could be argued the player we are signing today is our marquee player, and I don't mean Tinirau Arona from Cronulla Sharks either

="desmond decker is anthony tupou ours ?'"

Who are we signing today Chissit?

I'd prefer to wait just in case it does not happen or at least not today anyway, if true you won't be disappointed, am told though we've already signed Arona but can't confirm it unfortunately.

Okay, thanks.