Players "insulted" by
NRL salary cap offer

Players association president Simon Woolford says players feel "insulted" by the NRL's offer to lift the salary cap by just $130,000 for next season.

The Rugby League Professionals Association met with the N-R-L yesterday to begin negotiations towards a new collective bargaining agreement, but any hope of a speedy resolution appear doomed after the parties were at loggerheads over the salary cap issue.

It's understood the RLPA was shooting for a base salary cap increase from $3.36 million to almost $5 million, while the NRL was looking at a rise of just under four per cent for next year, with further annual increases of two per cent through until 2012.