Storm for Wooden Spoon - Betting Suspended

[Dexter]

Yeah, I feel sorry for the bloke too. He must be pulling his hair out, he must love the job or something.

 

[Huge]

John Quayle.....I'm truly stunned. Run the game and has a club playing in that same game..real fair bloke he was....not. Like midnight oil said...short memory

 

[Meat77]

I'm not saying John Quayle was the ants pants of administrators but for all his faults he did bring the game forward a long way in his time.

Similarly David Gallop hasn't been perfect (but really how could anyone be in that position) but I feel he deserves more bouquets than brickbats overall.

 

[Kaz]

Quayle was anti anything that wasn't from NSW.

 

[OXY-351]

[quote="Bucking Beads":6pjca1jw]I do believe the Players should be getting 50k at least per origin game!!

+1. It would def relieve some of the cap pressure temas feel when they have a whole plethora of stars in the game.

Then you'd have clubs who have no origin players, and their players are often overlooked for selection, complaining that they're disadvantaged.[/quote:6pjca1jw]

So don't be so shit

 

[Coxy]

I agree, but unfortunately the NRL likes to act like a communist state...everyone must be equal.

 

[OXY-351]

I agree, but unfortunately the NRL likes to act like a communist state...everyone must be equal.

You could also argue that a club that provides no players to rep football is actually at an advantage. Obviously not a monetary advantage, but from a team's perspective it would certainly be less disruptive to have your full team available each week.

 

[OXY-351]

Not only that, but surely all players at the club benefit by having so many high profile players in the ranks. I mean imagine the tips and advice Smith, Slater, Inglis, Cronk etc have given to the younger guys in the club

 

[Nashy]

So when do these losers have to drop players? They're still cheating right?

 

[Anonymous person]

well id say they dont have to drop players til before next season. theyre not getting any points this year regardless of if they drop people or not, so why bother?

 

[Meat77]

You would think though if one of the players went to the club and asked for a release so they could play for a contender the Storm would almost have to honour their wish.

 

[Professor47]

Draft - not the way to go for RL and certainly not right now... we've got a million things to do before the draft system IMO

Gallop - cops an unfair bashing that is true but isn't it about time for some fresh blood? IMO I just think its time for RL to move on... go back to its roots... I'm no Tommy-like dinosaur but I just think there are plenty of fans we can win back and reach out to...
TALK to your mates... everyone has the same-ish thoughts and feelings about RL over the past 5 years or so now..even the thoughts of most of us in this forum... the game is TURNING the fans away... I don't understand personally --> As someone said on this forum I feel under Gallop's regime it's more
"We can't do this" rather than "What CAN we do?"

 

[Kimlo]

THE NRL has been rocked by stunning revelations that disgraced premiers Melbourne Storm had broken the salary cap by 20 per cent more than officials originally confessed to. 850k over now might me higher.
courier mail website.

 

[Nashy]

As above.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 5860807548

THE NRL has been rocked by stunning revelations that disgraced premiers Melbourne Storm had broken the salary cap by 20 per cent more than officials originally confessed to.

NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert and a team of forensic accountants have uncovered more evidence of rorting and fraud which lifts this year's player salaries to $4.95 million.

There are now genuine fears the payments for 2010 will burst over the $5 million mark by the time investigations are completed.

Original estimates, which came from the confessions of sacked CEO Matt Hansen last Thursday week, indicated the club was $700,000 over the cap this year, having spent $4.8 million.

"Yes, I can confirm it's now up to $850,000 for this year alone," said NRL boss David Gallop when confronted yesterday.

"More information has come to light over the past seven days and the investigation has another couple of weeks to run. It's going to take some time to finalise the figures."



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Gallop says the fact that the amount of the rorting continues to rise justifies the NRL's heavy punishment in not allowing the Storm to compete for premiership points this season.

"This highlights the flaws in what some people were suggesting that the club simply shed a few players, goes back to zero, and starts again," Gallop said.

"At first it was $700,000 worth of players, now it's $850,000. The figures are still a couple of weeks off being finalised. We can't put a figure on what it's going to finish up as.

"At this stage we don't know what they've got to do to get back under the cap. That's why I stand by our original decision."

To counter Gallop's argument, fans from other clubs will be even angrier knowing their teams are spending only $4.1 million but could miss out on a finals berth by losing to Storm who have spent $850,000 more on the player roster.

Schubert has yet to reveal how he uncovered the extra $150,000 of illegal payments during the week.

Stand-in chief executive Frank Stanton worked alongside Schubert and the accountants, checking all the books and computer records at Storm headquarters.

Still, the players remain hopeful the team will stick together as they prepare for Saturday night's game against the Cowboys in Townsville.

"I think it's going to take a little bit more than this to ruin what the Melbourne Storm have done down there over 12 years," champion fullback Billy Slater said.

"We've just got to stick together, there's not much else for us to do other than play football at this moment."

 

[Bucking Beads]

Cheats, I think we all knew it!

 

[Anonymous person]

this basically means theyre going to have to offload 3 of their 'big 4'.

if we release Sims, Setu, Michaels, Wallace, and then factor in Lockyer leaving after next year (although hopefully sooner), and add in the huge sums of money we didnt spend this year in our salary cap, we can EASILY nab 2 of them, and boy oh boy do we need to.

 

[Bucking Beads]

The Storm surely won't lose 2 of them!! I could hardly see Cronk leaving either he and Bellamy have a thing together.

 

[Anonymous person]

theyre going to have to though.

they NEED to register 25 players, each on a minimum of something like $60k iirc. so say Inglis is on 500k, they drop him but they need to replace him with someone on $60k minimum. so while theyre dropping 500k from their cap, theyre then adding at least $60k back on. half of their team cant be on more than $150k each anyway, since half of them are no-names, so losing them means theyre not going to save much money. theyd have to basically drop every one of the other 21 players and hire new rookies to get under the cap while keeping their main 4, and that wont happen.