Questions have been raised over a lucrative 3rd party deal between Brisbane Bronco's captain Corey Parker and television broadcaster Fox Sports. Parker a weekly regular on Fox Sport's Sterlo on the couch who recently signed with player manager Isaac Moses has been setting up for life after football.
The problem is, NRL third party agreements have to be at arms reach from the contracting club and in this case it is simply not.
Fox Sports Australia Pty Limited (formerly Premier Media Group Pty Limited) is a subsidiary of News Corp Australia that owns sports-related television networks and digital properties. It owns Australian subscription TV channels Fox Sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Broncos#Corporate
The parent company of the Brisbane Broncos is Nationwide News Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Limited, which as of 30 June 2007, owns 68.87% of Broncos shares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Broncos#Corporate
The situation at the Broncos has a striking resemblance to the situation at the Parramatta Eels with retiring forward Anthony Watmough. The NRL penalised Parramatta 12 competition points largely due to TPA'S they deemed not in compliance with the rules.
"TPAs are exempt from the cap under certain conditions. The main condition is that the company is not an associated entity. We have two TPAs registered for Anthony Watmough being ScoreCube $75,000 and PJ Promotions $50,000. ScoreCube is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Black Citrus who are a supplier of PNRL. Stephen Moss is the only director and the ScoreCube website is heavily branded Black Citrus.
As you have read, there is no difference in the TPA's between Anthony Watmough and Scorecube and Corey Parker with Foxsports.
The NRL are expected to fully investigate the Brisbane Broncos and get to the bottom of what seems to a dodgy TPA epidemic in the League. It is quite possible that a loss competition points be handed out to the league leaders.
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Is this for real?
Amazing what a little research can uncover, the links are real.
competitions loss to the Broncos HAHAHAHA don't be so dumb that's like saying we let go of peats to sign JT
yeah i know, what was that childhood story again? the boy who called wolf?
it will never happen the Bronco and Cowboys and the Bulldogs tell and show the NRL that they are way over the cap and the NRL will look the other way
Unfortunately this will be swept under the rug or explained by Greenburg, nothing will be done, the broncs are a completely protected species as the NRL relies on them for the entire QLD audience, theres no way they will act on the broncs unless there is so much evidence thats thrown into their face they are forced to.
We can only hope that this sets the scene for more Bronco rorts to come to light.
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