Parramatta Eels had undisclosed payment register which outlined money paid outside of salary cap

an hour agoby JAMES HOOPERSource: FOX SPORTSTHE file was simply called the Undisclosed Payment Register.On it was a list of 25 current and former Parramatta Eels players who were slated to receive a secret payment outside of the NRL’s salary cap.Obtained off the Parramatta Eels computer system when the NRL forensically examined the Eels football club offices, it also lists a host of businesses and individuals who were directly paying NRL players.REVEALED: THE SECRET BOARDROOM TAPES THAT SHOCKED THE NRLIt is the smoking gun that led to the NRL hitting the Eels with the hard line punishment of being docked 12 competition points and fined $1 million.For the legion of Parramatta Eels fans calling for answers as to why their club has been punished by the NRL, the Undisclosed Payment Register is what’s landed the club in so much hot water.Like when the Melbourne Storm were caught cheating the salary cap in 2010, it is essentially a second set of books the Eels were running.No one outside of the club’s powerbrokers was supposed to know of its existence.Fox Sports has opted to redact the list of names which appears on the Undisclosed Payment Register.For the five members of the Eels football executive staff attempting to cry foul about “due process” in the Supreme Court case, its emergence is damning.Along with the secret tapes from the board room meetings, it will place increasing pressure on the five to accept their NRL sanctions.The secret payment lists from 2014 and 2015.http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/parramatta-eels-had-undisclosed-payment-register-which-outlined-money-paid-outside-of-salary-cap/news-story/ce43577fdcc264c6b4695d4bb1548590

"I am not too disheartened by that. If we got him then great but he is 29, having a few injuries and though a really good Winger he is an average Centre. I would rather Murray Taulagi."

"I'm more interested in who the Eels are going to sign to replace Lomax instead of worrying about the players that don't want to be at Parra. When are we going to hear some good positive signing news or it that it"

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Dave May 16, 2016 at 6:54pm

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/72d9143071700ace91e681880b200d0d...

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/72d9143071700ace91e681880b200d0d?width=700
Collaroy Eel May 16, 2016 at 7:03pm

How did the NRL get a copy of that???and more importantly how does the media get a copy of this????????? Will the NRL or police get involved into how something no doubt confidential and that should not be made public as its in the courts get into the hands of fox sports
- Dave > Collaroy Eel May 16, 2016 at 7:08pm
  
  The nrl got it off the computers they forensically examined so them getting it is a non issue as it was patt of their investigation into the club
  
  How the media got it is another matter
Yobz May 16, 2016 at 7:04pm

And it comes out on the day that Hayne says he is leaving NFL...
Yobz May 16, 2016 at 7:08pm

Dave - Based on that picture it wouldn't be too hard to figure out some of the names given their contract lengths.
- Dave > Yobz May 16, 2016 at 7:16pm
  
  Yep
  
  The biggest thing to me is that it shows the payments are still ongoing which destroys the "it was only stuff in the past" agrument
Patsy Stone May 16, 2016 at 7:22pm

Well that'll do me!
- Dave > Patsy Stone May 16, 2016 at 7:26pm
  
  It what way?
Electric Eel May 16, 2016 at 7:27pm

If this stuff is all true, we deserve what we get and the board needs to go! That however does not negate the NRL's blind eye attitude to other Clubs!
- Dave > Electric Eel May 16, 2016 at 7:34pm
  
  In 2002 when the Dogs were caught other teams were cheating but not investigated
  
  Whentje Warriors were caught in 2006 other teams were cheating but not investigated
  
  When the Storm were caught in 2010 other teams were cheating but not investigated
  
  In at least some of those years Parra were oneof the clubs with dodgy deals.
  
  This year is no different to any other case of a club being caught cheating the cap.