Salary cap rise good for game

15 September 2014Premiership Rugby chief Mark McCafferty believes a second salary cap hike in as many years will help English clubs keep pace with big-spending French and Japanese counterparts.

The Premiership clubs will vote in a £500,000 salary cap rise for next season in a board meeting on Wednesday.

The competition's board will also allow each squad to have a second marquee player for 2015/16 - to be recruited from overseas and not have played in the Premiership for at least 12 months.

Premiership clubs can already nominate one marquee player in their squad, whose wages…