NRL thread

[Carvels Ring]

plus the premierships! 

[one-eyed]

David Gallop's press conference:

* Storm were $1.7m over the cap over the past 5 years including $700k in 2010. Systematic methods used to hide breaches. NRL auditor found a secret file in a separate room at the Storm's admin HQ which exposed the Storm's salary cap avoidance.

* Penalty is the stripping of 2 major premierships and 3 minor premierships, a $500k fine, and all points stripped for the whole of 2010.

* No premierships will be awarded in 2007 and 2009. So Manly and Parramatta don't gain them.

 

[the_boy_jake]

Cheats. Ballsy of the NRL with the Rebels coming in and a second soccer team too.

Those premierships should definitely be awarded to the best non-cheating team.

[cub]

And they have to give back the prize money.

Man I knew they hated us, but fair dinkum  

No way all the clubs would be above board.

Should get these auditors onto Carlton and Judds case.

Premerships still exist for all us supporters - NRL not doing emselves any favours with the Rebels coming in next year.

[RollsRoyce]

I'm with you CUB. I sure wish Dimwittyou and little Ando had the BALLS to strip Carltank of a couple of their ill-gotten Premierships.

[Carvels Ring]

Nah, it's fair what has happened.  There will be cops involved as well.  you cant do what they have done.

it's a stuffing tragedy

[FNM]

My ex-boss is a director of the club 

A tragedy for the supporters and the innocent parties

[mightytiges]

Fair enough to be punished for cheating but sheesh are the NRL committing suicide expansion wise with such a hefty penalty. This could kill off the Storm and result in the NRL going back to just a two state competition. Aren't the NRL trying to negotiate a new TV rights deal?


A shame Carlton weren't stripped of their last two flags when they were caught cheating  .

[Carvels Ring]

Gee theres gonna be some heads banged together over this.  imagine how the players feel?  

[FNM]

I'm with you CUB. I sure wish Dimwittyou and little Ando had the BALLS to strip Carltank of a couple of their ill-gotten Premierships.

Will put our game to shame they didn't do this and the NFL did against a side they desperately want to succeed

[tiger101]

NRL had to do it. if they went soft they would get killed in the media of letting cheater win in afl area.

[Carvels Ring]

They had two sets of books.  heads are gonna roll.

[WilliamPowell]

NRL had to do it. if they went soft they would get killed in the media of letting cheater win in afl area.

Totally agree

The NRL set the precedent in 2004 (?) with Canterbury and they have remained tough on what is cheating

It certainly will hurt NRL in Victoria

It will interesting to see what some of these palyers do now, the ones with the outside deals because you would assume somehow those agreements cann no longer be honoured

[mightytiges]

Gee theres gonna be some heads banged together over this.  imagine how the players feel?  

Devastating for players who are innocent. Some of the higher profile players will move onto other clubs for the Storm to get back under the cap by next year. Seeing Slater, Inglis and co. running around up north for other clubs will be hard to take for supporters.

It's hard to see the Club surviving. Their history has effectively been erased and the brand is now heavily tarnished. The team will inevitably fall down the ladder through loss of its star players and financially the club will take a massive hit in one of the most competitive sporting markets in the world with 4 football codes - the NRL being a minor code down here and two new clubs in other codes starting up. We saw what happened to Carlton financially in a pro-AFL town. They needed $1m from the AFL plus Pratt's $$$ to get back on their feet. The Storm don't have that support.

This affects the Rebels as well given who they poached from the Storm to run the new rugby union club.

[WilliamPowell]

Devastating for players who are innocent. Some of the higher profile players will move onto other clubs for the Storm to get back under the cap by next year. Seeing Slater, Inglis and co. running around up north for other clubs will be hard to take for supporters.

Actually it will be interestng to see what these high profile players do to be honest

Great test of character for them. DO they stay or do they go? They should stay as they helped create this mess.

What is really sad is the NRL in Victoria has always wanted to be front page news and the lead story on the 6.00pm news and tonight they will be for all the wrong reason