people who know nothing about RL are talking about this

heck my girl cousin who doesnt follow league is laughing at this

the amount of publicity well get over coming weeks will be staggering

they shouldnt even bother playing club games for 2 weeks, nobodies going to be talking about it

When the salary cap first came about I was against it, I have since changed my mind. I think we need to have a re-think on some points with it, but in general it has been ok for the game, internally. The only un-level playing field it has created is between RL and RU, which is why we might need to look at something like central contracts to the top British players, but allocate them to clubs so that no one club has too many. I believe this happened in speedway some years ago, with some success.

A certain Mr Slater has laid 1 months salary......win win situation. As he likes to WIN....maybe Quins could give hima tax haven to spend his ill earned cash

I really feel for the Melbourne fans.

How can they possibly drum up enthusiasm for the rest of the year on ZILCH points?

Their crowds will be dire surely for the remainder of 2010.

Can they not keep any they win from now to the end of the season



If so, will they bother to play 100% and give an unfair advantage to teams they have not yet played.

nah.

they cant get any more points all season

why should they?

they are $700,000 over the salary cap this season. thats like slater plus a good forward.

sucked in.

i think we should take a leaf out of the NRL book on how to treat cheats........ Relegate wigan for 1

Too late, they've been 'punished', but something similar would have been justified. I don't hold out much hope of anything as draconian (although justified) being dished out over here (depending on the club that is

)

Cas, Wakey, Salford....anything to save quins

some people feel sorry for them because they are an expansion team, but cheating is cheating

the interesting thing is in AFL where they allow their expansion teams to spend 1 million over their salary cap, or have in the past

This could be the end of the NATIONAL RL.

A very sad day for RL in Australia.

If Storm go under the code will be seen a a joke as it recedes back to the East coast only.

Relegate Wigan, for what exactly?

I think he means for the fiddling that you did a few years back, too late now, but should have happened back then. Any serious breaches by clubs in the future should have similar consequences to Storm.

because it's a small town in leigh and they are top of the league perhaps

According to you there was no national rugby league...

Keep hoping.

Maybe the Weagles will get a new member or two.

exactly.

its an nrl when it suits him.

and the idiot should know theres an nrl team in new zealand

f**k hes thick

It'll be interesting to see if the Melbourne public turn against the storm, if they do it's the end of RL there. I can't see them recovering for a long time, if at all - no sponsor will want to touch them for a start.

Nearly all clubs must cheat the system, the NRL know the system needed changing since guys like Gasnier left but couldn't address it in time because of the joint NRL/News Ltd ownership. 2011-2013 is too late to increase the salary cap (and teams), damage has already been done. The sooner they get one person controlling the game the better.

Defering payments, that's all - we were done through 'breaking the spirit of the cap' not actually breaking the salary cap. We wern't actually over the cap, unlike Saints for instance.

what has 26 legs and cant climb a ladder?

Cruel DM.

On the matty johns show now, brian mcfadden as a guest WTF? Apparntley he's a storm fan

Bellamy gone within the week!

I'm sure the shrimp eaters will appeal ala Wigan and get punishments halved.

melbourne coach craig bellamy is rumoured to be facing the sack

brian waldron to be looked at for signing allegedly false stat. decs

Waldron faces jail!