No I dont know him he left a comment on one of the Sky Sports site, just wondered which SL team he was refering to

Seeing as its a live cap and monitored by the RFL on a month by month basis its pretty much impossible to breach it undetected..... even for Wigan !

As for the RFL having the guts to punish Wigan for their cheating, you have to look at their options. Firstly they could have relegated them. But with the franchise system they would have gone straight back up the next season anyway so their wouldn't have been any point. Their other option of doing what the Aussies have done to Melbourne and stripping them of silverware... well they haven't won anything since the early 90's so thats a none starter as well.

The NRL operates a live cap.....

No it wouldn't. Melbourne would never have broken the live cap had their fraud not been discovered. It's easy to get round the cap auditors, very easy. Most SL chairmen will have directorships in major companies, with endless subsidiaries that simply won't be investigated by the cap auditors.

It would incredibly easy for a player to be paid an additional £100,000 a year if required and it's very hard to uncover it. You just have to hope that they won't do it for fear of the player or someone else ratting them out.

So does Super League doesnt it ?

I feel for Melbourne

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I wonder how this will afect Bellamy's standing in the game?

Can't see it TBH. As long as he doesn't crouch and has good posture e'll be fine.

Problem with what happened when Wigan got found out to be cheating was that the remainder of the Super League clubs didn't hold firm against them. For example St Helens even supported them in their case against the RFL.

A proper punishment, much deserved, I just wished it happened a few years before as the RFL might have routinely followed the NRL and done the same to Wigan, unlikely, though.

Matt King on GMR last night...

"We don't know what other players earn".

So how do posters on RLFans know?

Slight difference in the outcome & scale of Storm's misdemeanours as compared to Wigan's. NRL have historically been harsher on transgressions in the cap, probably due to the size of the sport over there & the fact that it is bigger than the clubs they are punishing. Like it or not had Wigan been deducted enough points to see them relegated the other year it would have been a massive own goal by SL/RFL to demote the biggest club in the country - would be akin to the Premiership demoting Manchester Utd for owing a few quid...