www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html? Melbourne Storm have been stripped of two NRL premierships and fined a total of $1.6 million after being found guilty of long-term salary cap breaches.

www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html? Melbourne Storm have been stripped of two NRL premierships and fined a total of $1.6 million after being found guilty of long-term salary cap breaches.

That's huge news, unbelievable.

Incredible! Is this how some teams operate over here???

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Cheating barstewards!!!!

Good on the NRL, as usual, they are tough as hell. I love the fact that they have come down hard on them, regardless of the fact that the storm are the only franchise in AFL land. If this were to happen in this country and the quins, dragons or crusaders get found guilty of a similar breach, I'm sure the RFL would could down on them equally as hard



I particularly like the fact that the storm cannot accumulate any points this season.

Just wondering at what point do the players become responsible for their actions in situations like this?

The club have been hit hard and will have to pay the fine as well as paying back prize money. The cheating scum that run the club are obviously people we do not need running clubs in our game, either over here or in Oz. But surely at some point individual players should be identified and charged with breaching the slary cap themselves and forced to pay back any additional monies they have made.

Am I alone in thinking that the players are equally responsible for letting down the fans of the game?

Blooming heck!

Why should the players pay back the money. There not in charge of getting the team to stay under Salary cap are they?

If players knew they were getting payments outside the cap, then fair enough. But they don't know what all their team-mates are getting so, that isn't necessarily the case. Though the 'secret letters' sounds dodgy - surely a disgruntled player was bound to blow the lid eventually. Doubt they'd recover cash - but Slater, Inglis, our own Clint Newton are no longer NRL champions.

Hmmmmmmmm

Just before the new Melbourne s14 side start their recruitment, very bad news.