Is this man real.?

global headlines.?

it didnt even make the news here im afraid and thats in uk... i doubt very much it made any other countries news in europe, Amercia including USA, SOuth and canada, also i doubt it made it in heavy populated areeas such as africa, india and china.

Get out of your goldfish bowl, ur worse than the yanks there is a more to Earth than just OZ..!!

Does anyone think that a $500,000 fine which will be end up being paid by a News Ltd company to another News Ltd company is a proper punishment? Or a returning of winnings paid out by News and being returned to News is right? The premierships are superficial. So is the points deduction the only really bad punishment?

Players agents should get a slap over this. But there would have been a lot of people who would have known and will get away with it.

As for world news, Reuters have the story so it IS mentioned in the New York Times. But can't find it at the moment in RL playing country France's main paper, Le Figaro.


It'll blow over. This is Australia, sport will win in the end.

yeah good point there RB.

everybodies saying where will teh storm get the money from to pay the fines and the rest.

$1.6 million is lunch money for news ltd

and they are paying from one of their entities to another

on a side note, as a st george fan im happy as!

saints / manly grand final

or at least it will be all sydney with souths, or the tigers getting there

Well it made it to Wales even if via a gimp.

How many union advocates spent their waking hours scanning overseas papers last night?

Funny stuff.

Good to see Waldron sent down the local milkbar for a new job.

AFL has their biggest club game of the normal season this weekend and its been swamped by talk of RL

the nrl has just blow every other sport off the planet here, even our closest rival in AFL is irrelevant now

the first 10 minutes of Foxsports news was all RL.


this just shows the publicity RL can generate and how interested people are in the sport.

online poll, a massive 13,000 people voted

75% of fans support the nrls punishment of the storm

This tends to confirm that the penalties are the right ones.

Extremely harsh but the situation was untenable.

The game will be stronger for it.

sponsors are pulling out of the storm

gallop hopefull nrl doesnt lose star players to rival codes

it appears unlikely players or the storms coaches didnt know what was going on

coaches are heavily involved in recruitment of players

ends all discussion that gallop is a news ltd/sl man.

storm are news ltd baby and hes just kicked their buts

after the dogs copped their penalty gallop had no choice but go harsh on them

dogs have recovered from this, so will the storm with news ltd backing

news ltd will just have to stay in for longer in their ownership of the storm

It is interesting to see so many of the old Sydney Melbourne haters coming out of the woodwork.

The NRL must be careful they don't allow this evil sentiment to tarnish the process.

yeah hadley last night was an idiot

gus is clearly a fan of theirs now.

theyll survive, this will all blow over in 2 weeks

lets just have fun with it now

it sure has upset fans from rival sports, jealous of our publicity

All we need now is a quote from Fitzy saying "I told you so..." to complete the clean sweep...

central coast say they are ready to step in if the storm fold

rl ; 30 minutes, afl 10 minutes.

they went to the union guy and still talked league!