A few points here, Wav. Once again, your Australian knowledge of England is a little hazy.
Wage caps have been tried several times in the football leagues; they were always, without exception, a complete disaster.
A question; what's a 'local-junior pod' (apart from a clumsy and tortuous attempt at rhyme?) Why the hyphen?
County cricket has been dying on its feet for years, but your analogy is false in any case; all counties except Yorkshire have had overseas and out of county born players since the end of the 19th century. Have you ever been to a County Championship game WAV? Ever seen a full ground?
I don't expect you as an Australian to understand an English institution like the Lancashire Leagues (or the Yorkshire equivalent for that matter), but they are contested by town and village sides, which I am sure you would approve of. Where do you think most of the retained professionals in these sides come from? Not England, WAV, not England. Ever heard of Basil D'Oliveira WAV? Played for Middleton in the 1960s. Viv Richards? Played for Rishton in the 1970s. People in Lancashire still talk fondly of Sir Learie Constantine playing for Nelson in the leagues. That was in 1928. I've asked you before; how far back does a cultural artefact have to go before it becomes part of the culture?
Once again your concepts of 'English' are shown to be utterly bogus, and based almost entirely on your mistaken ideology. Prove me wrong, WAV; do some proper research, absorb some actual learning instead of parroting your excruciating verse, and come back with a logical and thought-through argument about why we should ban players from other nations competing in sports in this country. Who knows, you might even convince me!