I did say in my post above that is not worth Madge looking at.

I don't think IL should be looking at it as this is Madge's area of control and it would also lead to a lot of issues like you mentioned above. I wouldn’t want anyone to go over Maguire’s head on this.

Now if Madge wanted to go for it i can't see a problem in it.

Nothing ventured nothing gained i guess is the way i'm looking at this.

Absolutely disgraceful, im just glad they got the punishment they deserved, and im glad that they cant gain any more points this year and will finish bottom. Feel sorry for the Melbourne fans though, but the club only has themsleves to blame.

Romours are though, that there may be a few other teams who have been doing the same.

How have they managed to get away with it on FOUR occasions?

Shocking. You'd be devastated as a fan (and player if you were unaware I guess)

One fan has dumped all his Melbourne gear outside the stadium.

Not what the game worldwide, or a key NRL franchise (with a new stadium on the way) needed.

Just been discussed on talksport after the sports news. RL emerged with great credit for the other clubs accepting it with dignity and the NRL for dishing out a proper punishment.

Suppose it was only a matter of time. The RFL auditors must surely know be swarming over Wire’s accounts like pigeons on a chip.

Talksport mentioned rugby league?
You listen to Talksport?

Thats what everyone would love to know. I understand they have been running sperate accounts so as to hide them, but how could that go unnoticed for so long???

Well done to the NRL for giving them the punishment the deserve but what we really need to know is how they could get away with it for so long.

What fans are going to go and watch them this year knowing that they cant actually get any points and none of the games mean anything???

Why?

Surely they'd focus on a club who have already been caught doing exactly what Melbourne were doing by having two different contracts for players. One declared to the Salary Cap Audit and a different real one. It becomes unfortunate when a careless agent faxes the wrong one to the RFL though.

At least Melbourne have been punished in a manner that befits cheats.

But Melbourne had no previous history IIRC, so had the Aussie salary cap "police" focussed on previous "law breakers" then maybe Melbourne may have got away with it for a while longer.

Has it been disclosed yet how they were "found out"?

Madge grassed on them so we can buy Inglis, Smith, Slater, Blair and Cronk.

True, I think H&J have both been to the CC final, Adrian Durham lived in Hull for a while and follows the game, Ronnie Irani always sticks up for RL when Alan Brazil 'waffles' on about union, but in general the sport gets little decent coverage.

or you could have a system were-by if you spend on your stadium to impove it you could be rewarded by having your SC increased so you could keep/attract the best players

Cant remember why they were being investigated or whether it was just a rountine check but this is the quote that explains how they got caught out....

NRL chief executive David Gallop