By Dave Woods BBC Sport rugby league commentator

Has anyone been left satisfied with the events surrounding the alleged breach of the salary cap by the Super League Three?

Hull, Halifax and St Helens have all been docked two points.

And all three have instantly insisted on their innocence and are confident of winning an appeal.

That remains to be seen, but whatever the outcome of those appeals, will justice really have been done?

If the RFL are right, and all three did overspend in achieving what they achieved last year, does the punishment fit the crime?

Saints beat Bradford in October's Grand Final

Saints won the Super League last year - their punishment for allegedly cheating the system is to make it slightly harder to qualify in a strong position in the play-offs this year.

Frankly, they are doing a good job of that themselves without any outside influence.

Halifax avoided relegation last term - if they were helped by financial irregularities, then how harsh is this year's punishment of docking two points in what seems an already forlorn battle against the drop.

How do Bradford, Wigan, Leeds and Salford and Wakefield feel about all that?

All of those may have been at a disadvantage last year because of those alleged over-spends by the named clubs.

The salary cap system needs to be much simpler so that everyone understands it

The so far unanswered question - though this may be revealed in complicated legal and financial arguments over the next few weeks - is by how much did all three over-step the mark last year.

All of the above is assuming they are found guilty as charged.

If all three prove their innocence by citing "technicalities" in Saints case and "interpretation of rules" in Hull's case, then what is the point of the salary cap if it is so blurred round the edges that no-one is quite sure how well it can be applied and whether it's rules can be made to stick?

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I suspect we will all be bored of this story by the time it finally reaches it's definitive conclusion.

The conclusion already begging to be drawn is that the salary cap system needs to be much simpler so that everyone understands it.

And somehow it needs to be policed and prosecuted over a much shorter time scale, so that any club found guilty of misdemeanors is given instant justice to the immediate benefit of others.