Explosive courtroom documents obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that the Melbourne Storm asked the NRL to "apply the blow torch" to Parramatta to release Zac Lomax.
A slew of documents released in the Supreme Court revealed that during a phone call between Storm chair Matt Tripp and Eels supremo Matthew Beach on January 13, that the Eels again rejected a $200,000 release fee.
“During the telephone call, Mr Tripp referred to the possibility of punitive steps being taken by the NRL against Parramatta Eels in relation to its salary cap if Parramatta Eels did not agree to the proposal being put forward by the Melbourne Storm,” according to a document the Eels tendered to the court.
“This assertion by the Melbourne Storm was intended or had the tendency to exert pressure on the Parramatta Eels in circumstances where the NRL had never communicated such a stance to the Parramatta Eels.”
It was further revealed that an alleged text from Storm CEO Justin Rodski to NRL CEO Andrew Abdo on January 21 was used to try and have the NRL pressure the Eels into a release.
“Hi Andrew, not getting anywhere at this point, can you apply the blow torch on parramatta [sic] to get this done.
Rodski added: “Lomax staying in the NRL is obviously a win for the game.”
It's what we always suspected. The Storm trying to bully their way into a deal that would favour them. They should be expelled from the competition.
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Course it does Prof Abdo reaffirming judt this week in media attempting to help to make storms case too. ie for good of game shit!
honestly I believe it shows nrl bowing to storms pressure instead of what is clearly right and what nrl fans want to see happen in all this. Nrl have acted piss weak that's all there is too it.
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to me this shows and warrants a step down from Vlandys!!
Thank God we are taking this all the way with our great Barrister on board! Go Arty!!
He won't step down but at this rate he will be pushed
Hehe cute!
tbh Tripp is severely embarrassing the storm over all this too! From his pezet salary cap claims Ryles poaching etc but this holy feck this one takes the cake. Im kinda shocked these blokes all keep the hundreds of Ks jobs at all
Punitive steps to our salary cap 😡😡😡😡
they ought to be extremely embarrassed by these revelations😡😡😡
absolutely fuming
So I assume the filthy storm are now involved in the case!?!?
shame on the NRL for siding with these absolute grubs 😡😡😡
tbh Im not sure based on the nrl agreeing and reaffirming to side with these dirty pool players that there shouldn't be a case of someone stepping down from nrl!!
Tripp, Abdo & Ugly Pete has gots to go.
For once I can honestly say that Im glad we play by the book and don't have hundreds of K's in TPAs extending our cap! Storm poking the bear big time in comparison to our legit spend!
Really hoping some journo has enough integrity to ask the Storm just what kind of "punitive salary cap" measures they were proposing or alluding to?
But the optics of this are shocking. Eels lose a rep player which the Storm say if you don't hand him over to us for not much we're going to ask the NRL to punish you even more.
Kudos to our club leaders in fighting the good fight. Storm resorting to blackmail and bullying to get their own way. It is all coming out now. If the NRL is a genuine impartial organisation and if the Storm are found complicit in this process, they should come down heavily on the Storm. Point deduction or fine. If the NRL fail to do this, 1EE members need to start a fan led petition across all fans to remove Vlandys
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