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[QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 3040523, member: 8315"] I like the Melbourne Storm. It's not cheating when everyone is doing it. Over the last twenty or so years has a club [I]not[/I] been fined for salary cap infringements? Cameron Smith has a point when he says things like the Storm should have their premierships reinstated and that the punishments were too harsh. Certainly their 2007 title should be given back. They overspent that year by $200,000 (which the NRL knew about) and that was slightly more than the amount the Roosters admitted to spending after winning the 2002 premiership. The Melbourne Storm admitted to overspending 1.7 million dollars over 5 years. Considering the NRL salary cap at the time was just below 4 million dollars, spread that excess amount out over those years and it's about a 10% overspend. Is it really that bad? Is it worse than the Roosters? Or the Raiders in the nineties? Or what Cronulla have allegedly done? I'd argue it's not. Yet they were stripped of 2 premierships and 3 minor premierships, fined 1.6 million dollars and played an entire season for no premiership points. That's strange, right? How on earth does that make sense? The answer is News Limited (who partly owned the game) also fully owning the Melbourne Storm. It's a huge conflict of interest. News Limited executives were pissed at being deceived by Storm officials. They either look complicit in cheating or incompetent for not knowing about it. They wanted heavy sanctions to salvage the company's reputation. They also needed a huge penalty in order to show no signs of favouritism to a club they own. So yeah. Smith and Bellamy and the Storm do have a point. [/QUOTE]
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