how are the melbourne storm poised to keep representative prop Brett White will survive along with the top 4 of Inglis, Cronk, Slater and Smith.
l feel melbourne hasnt really been penalised swiftly enough... they are gonna come out the other end of the farce just as strong which is going to feel like they havent been punished for making our great game a farce.........
for goodness sake they are all still wearing there rings and still have the trophy.... the players havent lost nothing except there roster for next yr.........
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Bugger me the Storm were 3.2 million over the cap......
Looks like Cronk is an Eel next year.......I don't care how much they want to stay together
One of them will have to go and if Inglis wants to stay put, I'd say Cronk will be either an Eel or a Sea Eagle.
i really hope parra get a crack at cronk...... and does any1 have the latest on the barrett rumours??
You can't field 20 players on 2 million.......let it go guys.....
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 9:40 AM
Source: BigPond Sport
The Melbourne Storm will reportedly offload 10 players and will pay the bulk of the squad's salary to four players in a bid to keep their biggest stars.
Storm officials are desperate to keep Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Greg Inglis and Cooper Cronk at the club, despite currently being far in excess of the NRL's salary cap in recent seasons.
An audit into the club has found it will need to shed $1.3 million in player payments next season.
According to news reports, the Storm will release 10 players next season, with Brett Finch, Jeff Lima and Ryan Hoffman all bound for England, Ryan Tandy and Aidan Tolman going to Canterbury and Anthony Quinn, Luke MacDougall, Todd Lowrie, Ryan Hinchcliffe and one of Sika Manu or Adam Blair also to be released.
Under the Storm's plans, $2.2 million of the increased $4.3 million salary cap next season will go to the club's "big four", with just $2.1 million to be spread amongst the other 21 players in a largely inexperienced squad.
When we were forced to offload Kevin Kingston, the players at the time (bar one) offered to take a pay cut, the NRL stepped in an claimed it wasnt feasible. The current crisis at the storm should warrant similar guide lines being taken by the NRL, it is simply not feasible for a team to have 4 superstars and 21 players fresh out of high school, all it does is show what everyone has suspected for a long time - The NRL is showing favouritism to the Storm, bending and making up new rules as it goes along all to ensure that the Storm stays afloat as a franchise in a town that doesnt even want it there!
The current system in place looks like a Giant cockup of massive proportions, with the big 4 and the Melbourne Storm looking guiltier every day. The question is what will be the outcome? Hopefully for the sake of this great game , the Nrl wont make a mockery of this and bring the game into disrepute, more than it already has!
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