NRL General Discussion Thread

[Kimlo]

Hey BHQers. If you're a Telstra customer you can sign up to Kayo for $5 for the first two months. Bargain. Offer valid until 14-04 so I'll be taking advantage of that for the next 2 months.

It's in the my offers section of Telstra app. Post paid customers only.

 

[Super Freak]

Hey BHQers. If you're a Telstra customer you can sign up to Kayo for $5 for the first two months. Bargain. Offer valid until 14-04 so I'll be taking advantage of that for the next 2 months.

It's in the my offers section of Telstra app. Post paid customers only.

What's the difference between Kayo and Foxtel Play?

 

[Kimlo]

What's the difference between Kayo and Foxtel Play?

Kayo is basically the sport package of Foxtel ripped out and made into its own service. It's sports only, you can't get anything else Foxtel related. They're different companies (but not really).

For people like myself who sign up to Foxtel purely for sports and don't give a shit about anything else on Foxtel it's what I've always wanted.

 

[john1420]

Kayo is basically the sport package of Foxtel ripped out and made into its own service. It's sports only, you can't get anything else Foxtel related. They're different companies (but not really).

For people like myself who sign up to Foxtel purely for sports and don't give a shit about anything else on Foxtel it's what I've always wanted.

Agreed. I've had Foxtel for over 20 years just for sports

With the release of Kayo, I joined straight away and cancelled Foxtel

Saves me a bunch and works quite well

It's missing a search function though

 

[Huge]

Agreed. I've had Foxtel for over 20 years just for sports

With the release of Kayo, I joined straight away and cancelled Foxtel

Saves me a bunch and works quite well

It's missing a search function though

What's the cost of Kayo?

 

[Dash]

What's the cost of Kayo?

$25 a month

 

[Huge]

$25 a month

Thanks. I bargained with Foxtel and ended up with all the sports channels plus pretty much all the channels going up from there and just a couple of the lower number ones. Total was 49 a month, no movies of course. No sci fi either. Kayo sounds like a good option if you can flick it at the end of the season without penalties.

 

[Nashy]

Thanks. I bargained with Foxtel and ended up with all the sports channels plus pretty much all the channels going up from there and just a couple of the lower number ones. Total was 49 a month, no movies of course. No sci fi either. Kayo sounds like a good option if you can flick it at the end of the season without penalties.

No lock in contracts. Let us know if you need a hand to work out all the buttons if you sign up, old timer ;-)

 

[Unbreakable]

Classic

 

[Dash]

In a surprise to absolutely nobody, Fonua-Blake is set to only miss a week for his hit on Benji Marshall.

And here's the kicker- he was charged with two separate offences, and the week suspension is for both combined.

**** the NRL.

 

[Sproj]

In a surprise to absolutely nobody, Fonua-Blake is set to only miss a week for his hit on Benji Marshall.

And here's the kicker- he was charged with two separate offences, and the week suspension is for both combined.

**** the NRL.

Consistently inconsistent, new era don't you know.

 

[Kimlo]

Not really sure where this fits but this thread looks as good as any other.

I've been really enjoying Kayo. I love that I can go back and watch the Fox programs at any time I want, find the program, it's all listed by episode Netflix style, and hit play. Don't have to follow any stupid schedule. You can watch from Live, or on demand the second it starts, so if you join 10 minutes late you can just watch from the beginning and skip the ads. That's how I used to watch Foxtel but I didn't have the option of going back and watching stuff from a few days ago. Even on the live channel, you seem to always be able to go back a set amount of time.

 

[Sproj]

What is the difference in subscriptions? Since I use a VPN pretty much all the time, it is FAR cheaper for me to get it than sign up to NRL/AFL/Cycling separately while abroad.

 

[Kimlo]

How Shane Flanagan brought Sharks to its knees with cap rorts

March 23, 2019
Shane Flanagan made one fatal mistake that plunged the Cronulla Sharks into a million-dollar salary cap scandal and cost him his job.
The now deregistered coach sent a confidential spreadsheet of undisclosed player payments from his own private Bigpond account to his Sharks email address on June 3, 2017.
It was a moment of self-destruction, and the smoking gun at the centre of the NRL’s investigation.
The spreadsheet was originally in an email from another person connected to the club.

Former Sharks Coach Shane Flanagan was the man who brought the Sharks down with one single email.
It reveals hundreds of thousands of dollars of unapproved third-party agreements, including cash payments, to seven of his star players who had won the premiership the previous season.
The Sunday Telegraph has obtained the secret document that left the 2016 premiers facing a crippling salary cap crisis and $1 million in fines.
It is the first evidence that Flanagan had knowledge of the additional payments to players.
Porn shop king Con Ange was found among the data base of around 20 third party providers.

Luke Lewis was illegally paid $200,000 outside the cap. There is no suggestion any players knew or were involved in the salary cap breaches.
The Sunday Telegraph can also today reveal the names of the players affected by the scandal — Luke Lewis, James Maloney, Wade Graham, Valentine Holmes, Josh Dugan, Jack Bird and Chris Heighington. Holmes, Maloney, Bird, Lewis and Heighington have since left the club.
The Sharks committed $200,000 to Lewis between 2013 and 2016 in payments not disclosed on his playing contract. Another $80,000 went to Bird.
Some of the money was paid to their managers in cash, in amounts of up to $25,000.
There is no suggestion that any of the players or their managers were aware that the payments contravened salary cap rules.

jack Bird was illegally paid $80,000 outside the cap. There is no suggestion any players knew or were involved in the salary cap breaches.
NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg reveals in a letter to the Sharks that the hidden payments were uncovered by integrity unit investigators from the Sharks’ internet server, which contained the email Flanagan sent to himself while he was the team’s coach.
Flanagan sent himself the email 12 months before the Sharks salary cap rorts were exposed. Otherwise it may not have been detected. Other copies were kept on private email accounts.
Until then the NRL knew only of $75,000 in undisclosed payments that had been self-reported by chief executive Barry Russell.
Cronulla Sharks salaries in 2017.

Cronulla Sharks salaries in 2018.

Cronulla Sharks salaries in 2019.

Cronulla Sharks projected salaries in 2020 and 2021.
All up, the NRL investigation identified $993,000 of financial commitments by the club to the players that were not included in contracts registered with the NRL.
The spreadsheet on Flanagan’s email was compiled by a company called Connection 2 Sport.
The managing director, Luke Edmonds, started the company when he resigned from his role at the Sharks as its sponsorship manager. Edmonds has denied any wrongdoing.

The document detailing the salary cap breaches.
The NRL says Connection 2 Sport was established with the knowledge of the Sharks board and executive, yet no action has been taken against their CEO Lyall Gorman, who now works at Manly. Gorman has denied any wrong doing
“Edmonds and Connection 2 Sport were from its inception the primary drivers for the sourcing of third party agreements for the Sharks playing roster,” Greenberg writes in his letter.
“Edmonds would provide hospitality and an ‘inner sanctum’ experience for actual and potential third party agreement providers.”
Under NRL salary cap rules, it is illegal for club officials to facilitate or have any involvement in third-party deals.
The Sharks declined to comment.


Source: Daily Telegraph

 

[Sproj]

That is a lot of rorting! How can they leave them with the 16 premiership?

And players and managers receive payments in cash but no suggestion if cap rorting knowledge? Come on.

If the NRL were professionally run, they would actually make the consequences of this actually have some meaning.

 

[broncos4life]

How dumb is Shane Flanagan lol.

 

[Morkel]

How dumb is Shane Flanagan lol.

I’ll just email myself. No one will ever know. It’s the perfect crime!

 

[john1420]

Not really sure where this fits but this thread looks as good as any other.

I've been really enjoying Kayo. I love that I can go back and watch the Fox programs at any time I want, find the program, it's all listed by episode Netflix style, and hit play. Don't have to follow any stupid schedule. You can watch from Live, or on demand the second it starts, so if you join 10 minutes late you can just watch from the beginning and skip the ads. That's how I used to watch Foxtel but I didn't have the option of going back and watching stuff from a few days ago. Even on the live channel, you seem to always be able to go back a set amount of time.

Loving Kayo, best thing ever as I can finally ditch Foxtel

Now I subscribe to Kayo for all my sport, Netflix and Stan for me regular content and I'm paying less for all 3 than I did for Foxtel :)

Only thing missing from Kayo is a search function, as if I want to watch the Back Page, you have to go trawling for it

Other shows like NRL360 are a bit easier to find as they fit into the NRL category, but as Back Page is a generic show it's a bit harder