The National Rugby League has today outlined Salary Cap breaches against the Wests Tigers, the Gold Coast Titans, the St George Illawarra Dragons, the Parramatta Eels and the Canberra Raiders following the completion of all audits into the 2010 season.
The largest breach notice is in relation to the Wests Tigers, who claimed a ‘long serving player allowance’ contrary to advice from the Salary Cap audit team.
The remaining breaches across four clubs concern the use of second tier players and the categorisation of education grants, accommodation and termination payments.
“The compliance across the vast majority of clubs has been encouraging but the penalties are a reminder that the Salary Cap will be enforced,” NRL Chief Executive, Mr David Gallop, said today.
“Six clubs were breached last year, most notably the Storm. It is pleasing to see the number down this year but the warning bells for anyone looking to break the rules could not be any louder.
“For the most part we are seeing a genuine wish to comply with the rules from the clubs but this remains an area in which we are always conducting thorough investigations.
“The Salary Cap audit team works incredibly hard to monitor the clubs and deserves considerable recognition for the role it plays in making the Telstra Premiership the closest and most exciting competition in Australian sport.”
The 2010 Salary Cap Breach notices are as follows:
Club Fine
Wests Tigers $187,140
Gold Coast Titans $76,380
Parramatta Eels $44,988
Canberra Raiders $31,657
St George Illawarra Dragons $15,694
The Titans have also been breached a further $2,500 for failing to properly register a Toyota Cup player.
All clubs will have until Friday, May 20, to make submissions to the NRL Chief Executive in relation to the breaches before any penalties are imposed.
http://nrl.com/five-clubs-breach-salary-cap-in-2010/tabid/10874/newsid/62722/default.aspx
Replies
What a joke the NRL are,Make a big deal about clubs who have sightly gone over budget yet the real cheats go untouched.
It's not exactly a huge amount, and clubs are fined amounts like ours every year.
This is just legal disputes over what constitutes player payments, happens every year, we were involved in a big fight last year too over the inclusion of Mateo's injury concession. Under the rule's if a player missed 13 games or more due to injury you can have 50% of his value added to next years cap. However Mateo missed 13 rounds 12 games because of a bye week.
Stupid stuff for players outside of our top 25 who live in the apartment block next to the leagues club, which is owned by the club. This happens every year, slow news day
You know why Parra went over???
"The remaining breaches across four clubs concern the use of second tier players and the categorisation of education grants, accommodation and termination payments"
This wasn't to pay out Tahu's contract which he signed about 3 days before he asked for the summer off work??? Gawd I hope not.
this happens every year to about 6 or 7 clubs in fact the Storm were done for technical breach's (which is what this is) 6 or 7 years in a row including the years they knowingly broke the rules.
absolutely nothing in it.
ok so its simple, like dogs and storm , if you breach in any way possible you cannot win the comp .
If we make a rule that serious ,no club will risk cheating .
Rules are rules . The fines should be massive for any breach .
$250,000 1st offense and minor breach up to 100,000
$500,000 2nd offense and mid range breaches 100,000 to 500,000
$10,000,000 3rd breach or removal of club from competition
Any breach also means you are stripped of any titles your club wins that season
-
1
-
2
of 2 Next