Either make em legal and let em play or fuck em off!
Here here to that one brother!!!
The team opposing the Storm only get the two points if they win (it's not win or lose). The whole thing is pointless (pun intended) until they pull the Storm into line with the cap.
There's a mighty NRL shitstorm going to hit when Waldron spills his guts.
I'm betting there's many a paper shredder in action today, and in more than one state
Yer well they still cant keep a GREAT team down , they came out and kicked kiwi arse . Go STORM
SUCH IS LIFE
Maybe..... but take out $700,000 worth of players and see how they go!!
"Interestingly, all the players you mention above played for the Norths Devils in the QLD Cup before signing with the Storm!"
Not that interesting I spose, Norths Devils is Storms feeder club!..........just woke up to that!!
What happened to only useing loco reps in the teams?
now they come from any country or area.
i think Australia was better in some ways when i was a kid ( not just cause i was young eather LOL ). things were primitive compared to today, but there was no bull shit, no one gave a bugger about what you were doing. cops could not book you unless they could stop you, or even catch you, they had to follow you for one Mile ( not a kilometer) doing the same speed as you to confirm you were speeding then try to catch you and stop you. most cars only did about 60 miles per hour in them days the old bikes might have done about 80mph but there were some went about 100miles per hour. fuel was that cheap they did not even post the price out the front. no airbags in cars, no airconditioning, most cars were black, it was just as hot then too. you used your hand to signal no blinkers , no one finger in them days, two finger salute, we talked like aussies not yanks. everyone had a gun in the back of the ute and a dog that could bark bite and fight and it was normally not tied up so no one fucked with your things , you left the keys in the car so they did not get lost. only pain in the butt was we had pounds shillings and pence.
cheers
ps this was in Sydney not the bush, that was even wilder
www.perthnow.com.au/business/news/storms-salary-breaches-could-be-higher/story-e6frg2qu-1225892101398
THE depth of Melbourne Storm's salary cap rorts over the past four years is far greater than first envisaged, News Ltd chairman John Hartigan said today.
reIt has been confirmed that the breach between 2006-10 is $3.17 million.
Thirteen players from the club including six currently still with the club, had received payments above what they were entitled to under NRL rules, Mr Hartigan said today.
Mr Hartigan gave details of the media company's forensic audit of Storm following the NRL announcement on April 22 there had been a long-standing and systematic abuse of the League's $4.1 million salary cap.
The players named are: Will Chambers, Michael Crocker, Cooper Cronk, Matt Geyer, Ryan Hoffman, Greg Inlgis, Dallas Johnson, Antonio Kaufusi, Anthony Quinn, Billy Slater, Cam Smith, Steve Turner and Brett White.
From those, Cronk, Hoffman, Inglis, Slater, Smith and White are still playing with Storm although Hoffman and White are leaving at the end of the season.
“But there is no evidence in any form that the players or their managers knew the extra payments contributed to a breach of the salary cap,” Mr Hartigan said.
Mr Hartigan said Storm's head coach Craig Bellamy was interviewed and had been cleared of any wrongdoing or knowledge of the breaches.
The investigation found the depth of the deception by a handful of Storm officials - not players - was $3.17 million from 2006-2010.
The breach alone for 2011 is $1.3 million.
Mr Hartigan said the investigation had identified five managers “who were directly involved in transactions that resulted in the breaches”.
They are: Brian Waldron, Matt Hanson, Paul Gregory, Peter O'Sullivan and Cameron Vale.
Mr Walrdon and Mr Hanson - both former CEOs - and O'Sullivan, a former football manager who now works at the Sydney Roosters, have left the club.
Mr Hartigan also announced the four independent directors on the Melbourne board - Dr Rob Moodie, Petra Fawcett, Peter Maher and Gerry Ryan - had been sacked today.
Stephen Rue, News Ltd's chief financial officer, has been appointed to the Storm board.
The changes were made by Valimanda Pty Ltd, a News Ltd subsidiary which is the financial backer of Melbourne Storm.
The newly constituted board now comprises Rue, Craig Watt and Frank Stanton, who is currently acting CEO of Storm.
Mr Hartigan emphasised the elaborate and orchestrated lengths went by “a few” inside the Storm - owned by News Ltd, publisher of The Australian and PerthNow- and that the financial audit had “probably not uncovered” the true nature of deception.
“Is it fraud? That's something for the poluice to invesitage and we're referring the findings to them.
“The penalties handed down earlier this year are in my opinion warranted.”
Storm's salary cap rorts were first exposed on April 22 when NRL chief executive David Gallop announced the unprecedented penalties of stripping the club of its 2007 and 2009 premierships.
The three minor premierships (2006-08) were also taken away from Melbourne along with all competition points for 2010.
That meant regardless of Storm's wins this season, the club would get the NRL's wooden spoon.
Storm was also fined $1.6 million dollars, which was to be distributed between the remaining 15 clubs.
No one in Melbourne gives a shit
