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Whoa! Roy Masters is delusional. There is no way the scope of the Melbourne Storm cap rorting and the Eels Cap allegations are in the same ball park.
Did he take his dementia tablets this week??
TBH, I think Roy has a point :-(
The key difference in all of this is that the Storm were deliberately and meticulously deceitful. We appear to have just been mismanaged.
Both the Storm and Parramatta committed breaches over a period of years of similar amounts; both clubs had been warned, although the Storm was not offered multiple opportunities to confess. In fact, after being presented with charges and given five days to respond, chairman Rob Moodie flew to Sydney and voluntarily met with Gallop. - Roy Masters
That paragraph is what I am struggling with. Talk about drawing a long bow! Melbourne were over the cap $957,000 in 2008, $1.021 million in 2009 and $1.04 million in 2010. That's $3 Million over the last three years they were breaching with their second set of books.
Well, the Storm were said to be over $1m in breach. As were the Dogs.
Admittedly, those breaches were to assemble a premiership winning first grade roster whereas ours have been silly little amounts, often under the second tier cap, over a number of years and were not designed to build a premiership roster, rather, in paying overs to keep certain players who were fielding big offers from serial offenders like the Roosters at the time!
But, in terms of quantum, I suspect they are in parity.
Shame is, there will be some numbskulls in NRL land that will believe his crap that deliberate, systemic rorting and breaches due to serious injuries etc as one and the same.
Good point FH. That's what I meant when I mentioned second tier breaches.
Roy touched on it but didn't really explain it. A lot of those second tier breaches were due to serious injury tolls. Clubs can get dispensation for it - and I believe we have received dispensation in the past so we didn't get fined - but it is still marked down as a breach.
BTW, Penrith have had second tier breaches due to injury for the last three years yet nobody has said boo about that! These breaches occur every year to a number of clubs and you never hear it get reported because it's not news!
Right now, Parramatta are news so if there's a fart in the women's toilet it will be smelt in James Hooper's 'mailbox'!