Salary Cap Sanctions Guessing Game

[Capital_Shark]

We've been closing the door and getting relocated for as long as I can remember. I don't buy into that sensationalism clickbait bull**** anymore.

 

[Gards]

the clickbait articles doesn't mean it won't happen. the comp won't remain in it's current state and format forever. NRL stadium policy is just the start of the big squeeze

we can't wait until the tap on the shoulder to tidy up our room and evolve

 

[Capital_Shark]

the clickbait articles doesn't mean it won't happen. the comp won't remain in it's current state and format forever. NRL stadium policy is just the start of the big squeeze

we can't wait until the tap on the shoulder to tidy up our room and evolve

The NRL has no current expansion plans and their stadium stuff is going to ****. Jumping at shadows.

 

[Thresher]

Beattie and Greenberg have both being saying, over the last few years, that Sydney has too many teams. Also for this reason, they would not save any Sydney teams from going under financially.
Also when we missed out on having a womens team in the new comp, Greenberg said that if the NRL could go back in time there'd be some clubs that they wouldn't have allowed to enter the comp and that this was the consideration in not giving us a spot.

Those 2 don't particularly want us around long term and they're the 2 most powerful administrators in the game.

Our job as a club has to be to make it impossible to be kicked out or relocated. We have to get our financials sorted and stop doing dodgy ****.

 

[Capital_Shark]

Beattie and Greenberg have both being saying, over the last few years, that Sydney has too many teams. Also for this reason, they would not save any Sydney teams from going under financially.
Also when we missed out on having a womens team in the new comp, Greenberg said that if the NRL could go back in time there'd be some clubs that they wouldn't have allowed to enter the comp and that this was the consideration in not giving us a spot.

Those 2 don't particularly want us around long term and they're the 2 most powerful administrators in the game.

Our job as a club has to be to make it impossible to be kicked out or relocated. We have to get our financials sorted and stop doing dodgy ****.

TV deal locked in with 16 team comp till 2022. I'll wager we last longer than Greenberg and Beattie.

Anyway, one of my things was "don't go broke". I also don't think it was specified that Sydney teams won't get propped up, at the time they'd just got Newcastle and Gold Coast off their tit. Tough talk and no action is the MO of this admin and they'd have no choice but to go back on that and save a club rather than **** their TV billions.

 

[Addy]

Greenberg and beatties days are numbered, but it's likely whoever takes their place will hold a similar view

 

[Thresher]

TV deal locked in with 16 team comp till 2022. I'll wager we last longer than Greenberg and Beattie.

Anyway, one of my things was "don't go broke". I also don't think it was specified that Sydney teams won't get propped up, at the time they'd just got Newcastle and Gold Coast off their tit. Tough talk and no action is the MO of this admin and they'd have no choice but to go back on that and save a club rather than **** their TV billions.

The Sydney team thing was specified. Never underestimate on old politician for working out methods to get their way. They're snaky ****ers. I don't trust them.

 

[Capital_Shark]

The Sydney team thing was specified. Never underestimate on old politician for working out methods to get their way. They're snaky ****ers. I don't trust them.

Well that was a silly specification as no Sydney clubs had required them taking over for a long time. That probably furthers your point that it's only Sydney clubs, and I'm sure only certain Sydney clubs.

You don't need to convince me they can't be trusted though, mate. Beattie is a ****ing moron, they way he's run his trap at every opportunity on JDB alone shows this, for a lawyer he should know much better.

 

[kotwben]

Move Dragons to Wollongong and Tigers to Campbelltown full time. There you go, two less Sydney teams. Where's my million dollar salary?

 

[CrazyMatt]

Move Dragons to Wollongong and Tigers to Campbelltown full time. There you go, two less Sydney teams. Where's my million dollar salary?

Umm dude. Campbelltown is in Sydney......

 

[HaroldBishop]

No chance in the world there are the same number of Sydney teams in 20-30 years.

 

[Mr Ryan]

A large part of Paul Kent's article from the tele today.

The **** doesn't look like he plans on moving on anytime some.

The NRL revealed last week Cronulla cheated the salary cap with secret third party payments from 2013-18.

Yet instead of having their title stripped the message went out the Sharks did not cheat that much, so a fine and future sanctions would suffice.

How would it look of the game’s biggest Cinderella story, the Sharks finally winning a premiership* after 50 seasons, Harold Holt finally turning the porch light off, was stripped amid a salary cap cheating scandal?

Would the NRL, based on evidence, been capable of such a brave call?

Hmm.

Regardless, the code did a bad job of selling its decision. For reasons nobody can explain, even though rugby league is a publicly owned sport, head office acts like KGB headquarters.

Information is presented on a need to know basis and it seems the League believes fans need to know very little.

It makes you wonder whether so many lies have already been told they fear coming clean in case the whole house of cards comes crashing down.

NRL Integrity unit boss Nick Weeks was careful and deliberate when discussing Cronulla’s premiership* season.

Several times, almost word perfect each time, he said the Sharks were “cap compliant on the day they won the premiership*”.

It is true, if not exactly right.

The way it worked was simple.

Cronulla was legally spending below the salary cap in 2016. At the same time, illegal third party payments were being made and not disclosed.

The Sharks were “cap compliant” because the secret amounts being paid to the players did not take them over the salary cap limit.

But they still cheated.

And the knock-on benefit for the Sharks seems not to have been considered inside KGB headquarters.

Premierships are not won in single seasons. They are won by strong rosters assembled over several years. So based on the NRL’s limited release of information Cronulla was four years into their cheating when they won their title*.

The third parties were illegally obtained and gave Cronulla an unfair advantage in the years that followed - “The club embarked on a program that begun in earnest in 2017 to set up a structure to procure third-party agreements to players,” Weeks said - because the premiership they illegally won brought in more sponsors so they could legally afford to spend nearer to the cap limit, while also secretly benefiting from their cheating program.

And yet the NRL feels justified to let the Sharks retain their premiership*, which is forever tainted.

Cronulla was treated differently to Melbourne because the Storm was well over the cap on its grand final days in 2007 and 2009.

“The most we were over in one season was $500,000,” Smith said, without even a blush.

Smith used a solid logic based on the information known.

But that is the problem. It is only ever partial information.

Smith has no idea how much Cronulla cheated the cap to win their premiership.

Nobody does, and so nobody wins.

*Cheated the salary cap

 

[egg]

A large part of Paul Kent's article from the tele today.

The **** doesn't look like he plans on moving on anytime some.

The only thing GOOD I can take from Kent's Articles is that he himself is PISSED OFF ,
I take great pleasure in that fact .
Suck sheeeet Kent

 

[Addy]

I reckon a sharks player must have porked his wife for him to carry such a large grudge

 

[HaroldBishop]

I don't care what he writes, he's irrelevant.

 

[Western Sharkie]

I think it's actually very childish to have an Astrix at the bottom like that.
"But mummy, they cheated........"

It's just "White noise" from a hack of a jurno!

 

[Thresher]

And this is the way Murdoch's crew reward us for joining the Super League. Back-knifing bunch of ********s.

 

[Capital_Shark]

A large part of Paul Kent's article from the tele today.

The **** doesn't look like he plans on moving on anytime some.

Boohoo. **** you.

I hope it eats away at the **** so much that he does something real stupid that winds him up job-sharing with Massoud. The irony of going from journalistic scoops to ice cream scoops makes me believe the universe has a sense of humour.

 

[Gards]

Were is all the outrage calls to strip Parra of their wooden spoon
#4EVRT8NTED

 

[egg]

Storm reply to Gal

SOURCE FOX

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/fd7ad0dd5a5adf358893a8be682743ad