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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Tripp has to go for gimping Abdo too
This could have all been avoided if Storm wasn't greedy lol. Howarth and 400k fee. Just pay that up and do a fair deal lol. Now it's time to take them to the cleaners
Whilst it is great the eels are exposing both the storm and the NRL i can't help but feel we are going to be the loser out of this.
If this isn't exposed to the level it should be and gets swept under the carpet with Abdo and V'landys both remaining in their current roles they will come after us hard.
Don't expect any favourable draws, fair decisions at the judiciary, refereeing decisions and you could probably throw in some random salary cap breaches on our part.
But here is the thing HKF, as I mentioned before, the fans will leave the game. Majority of fans are backing us and can tell if we will be dudded. Now this can happen as we know now of corruption but fans will work out what's going on if we get bad calls. They will be watching us closer and for once supporting us.
The fans won't walk away and the nrl know it.
3 of those 4 things have been happening to us for quite a while already, so we really can't be much worse off...
The gents leading the charge at Parra nowadays are very astute businessmen, given the position we have taken they are not about to let up for a player swap.. they fully intend to expose all for what they are. The powerbrokers are changing and the sleeping giant of the NRL is now fully awake.
I have a hunch that you are bang on the money archie
I agree HKF. We need to stay at this or they will make us pay.
All Gas No Brakes
The Fox's have been running the Henhouse. ..but we now have 3 Marremma Gaurdians in Beach, Sarantinos and Moses sc...and they don't tolerate foxes, regardless of whether they run the place or not.
If we come out firing on the field, the solidarity this creates will be given credit for part of it.
I think this feeling is Parra Pride. We are the good guys here
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