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  Snakey - Sack Dylan Brown March 23, 2016 at 10:52pm

  Welcome to the site Joe, its a murky world mate, who knows what sponsor the roosters got those cards off.

  No doubt everybody is rorting it, have you noticed how quiet all the other clubs have been on this, nobody is laying the boot in because they are afraid a story might be just round the corner from them.
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  Mo March 23, 2016 at 11:26pm

  I wonder how many of Nick Politis's cars are being loaned out to players while not being declared or being severely undervalued.
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  gary christie March 23, 2016 at 11:49pm

  I agree, TPA'S should be scrapped once and for all. give every club a 10 million dollar salary cap and they can decide how much of that is spent on so called marquee players. that would get rid of the unknown and the skulduggery that goes on at all clubs. Lets face it, every club does it.
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  Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 March 24, 2016 at 6:08am

  Agreed, While one city clubs like Brisbane have unlimited tpa's, vs 7/8 Sydney clubs vying for each other's sponcers, it's no wonder some have tried to find loopholes to keep up with the jonses.
  
  And the NRL are vying for an even competition - BS.
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  Kurupt March 24, 2016 at 6:48am

  Joe C = Josie
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  Eelbealright March 24, 2016 at 6:56am

  Scrapping TPA wont stop clubs from giving players benefits outside the cap. You'd be naive to think it will. Players have been getting additional benefits of cars, accomodation, free holidays other gifts for years and years. An old timer I know who played back in the 60's said St Geroge were masters at it and that's how they managed to keep their team together and win 11 premierships in a row.
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    Joseph > Eelbealright March 24, 2016 at 5:54pm

    Hi Joe, I was involved with a dealership many years ago. This dealership would loan a luxury car to a high profile player and exchange the car every 3 months.
    This dealership was affiliated with another club, in return another dealership affiliated with his club would loan a car to a high profile player affiliated with this dealership.
    This still goes on, clubs help each other to Rort TPA rules.
    What Snake posted is true, the silence from other clubs is deafening.
    Welcome to the site!
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  Slippery Steve March 24, 2016 at 8:44am

  Welcome Joe. Firstly this example is not a TPA it is definitely part of the cap. Did the Roosters declare it? Probably not. Similar to us getting pinged for flights for Fui's family years back. The other tough one is how can they scrap TPAs given many are legitimate? Why should a player who gets sponsored by a company completely unrelated to these murky club based TPAs have that taken away? Players should have a right to earn money through their image like in every other sport. The hard part is enforcing these "club based" TPAs especially with the haves and have nots in club land.
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  RIDER March 24, 2016 at 8:56am

  I dont know if they need to be scrapped by the rules regarding them need to be more Black & White.

  Then again consistency in the judiciary has been needed for a long time and nothing seems to have change there.

  The NRL just make decisions based on how they feel on any given day.
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  FME March 24, 2016 at 8:59am

  Is your avatar Joe Kenda the Homicide Hunter?