EELS ON SLIPPERY SLOPE TO SALARY-CAP DESPAIRThe season is barely a month old, but Parramatta is already facing headaches with its second-tier salary cap.After a spate of early season injuries, the Eels are flirting with the lousy $440,000 limit that the NRL allows for reinforcements from outside the top 25. Danny Wicks, John Folau and Buretta Faraimo are all relatively well-paid ring-ins, whose inclusions have created a potential problem. Once the second-tier cap is breached, teams require special permission from the NRL to introduce new players.Parramatta has been particularly active in their recruitment and there’s more movement to come from beneath. We’ve heard back-up half Luke Kelly could be on his way to England, with Hull FC football manager Motu Tony currently in Sydney to cast his eye over potential recruits.

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  • NOOOOOOOOO not Kelly we are F##K now

  • Is kelly on a top 25 contract or wenty?

    • Nah, the bottom 25 unlimited crap, errr cap. I wonder if there is a Hillsong at Hull, maybe they could also take Crappy Joe off our hands.

  • Introduce him to Seff

  • If we lose Kelly and Sef we're fekked in 2016.
  • Wait, aren't Bureta and Wicks in our Top 25? Maybe even Folau this year too?

  • Hopefully they take crappy Joe and Morgan and Burtea with him.

  • Good news for both parties. I'm sure Kelly will carve up in ESL.
  • We are screwed now.

  • lets hope so, he has not lived up to people who think he had class.. let me say this in my view most of the holden cup and wenty team may follow him out of the eels, they all had there chances,blame them selfs.

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