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STORM SHOULD CUT 700,000 WORTH OF PLAYERS NOW !!!!!!

Posted by MAXFORCE ELECTRIFYING EELS 2010 on April 23, 2010 at 7:56pm

STORM will play this week against warriors , problem is they are still over the cap all year ,

No side should play against them until the cap is met , it doesnt matter that storm cant get points , all teams fielded should meet the cap or 2 points goes to oposition without playing a minute . NRL must tell them to drop or stand down players to be fair to other sides .

eg EELS play storm in june , storm fields the side that breaks the cap , my feeling is we should get the points and rest our honest side .

Please comment on this ......

Oh and no player should play rep honors if they knew about the payments , no origin ,no country or international honors .

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Jarrod April 23, 2010 at 8:16pm

Mmm I do agree in a way... I would feel cheated again if you lose to the storm this year.

I think they should have given all teams who lost to the storm this year two points, and every team to play them get two points win or lose
Eeldarado April 23, 2010 at 8:17pm

No the easiest way of getting around this BS joke of a competion is to kick them out for the year why should teams play them risk injury for what??

THis is BS!!
- paul taylor > Eeldarado April 23, 2010 at 10:37pm
  
  Picture this - Jeff LIMA lines up takes out say HAYNE - gets 8 weeks and HAYNE is out of the game for 12 weeks. The game means nothing to MELB now but we lose everything. I am worried about playing melb as I think that it going tn difficult playing them knowing that it basically means nothing to them.
  
  Who knows what mental state they are in the players and what they will do to the rest of the comp as a result. Should have been suspended from teh competition for 1 year and probation period of 2 yaers after that.
YDIDISAYIDO April 23, 2010 at 11:33pm

It's a completely stuffed up situation. Each team is going to be handicapped before they play the Storm because they can fit an extra 700K worth of talent on the field.

If we played every team twice it wouldn't matter as every team has the same disadvantage.... but not all teams play each other twice.

They should be forced to sit ut 700 k worth of talent.
slip April 24, 2010 at 9:11am

Can't believe Phil Gould's logic on this topic, he seems to think that Melbourne should be allowed to earn competition points after reducing their playing roster by 700K. They even cheated in 2010 and I believe they are lucky to have not been expelled from this season. What precedent is he trying to set, when cheating if you get caught than just scale down your team and the rest of the season is fine. Get him off the footy show and Sunday Roast.
- Clintoris > slip April 24, 2010 at 12:16pm
  
  Sorry ( & this is hard for me to say) but I agree with SOME of what he said. I think they should keep playing...but strip them of all competition points until they get rid of enough players to be under the cap. Any players that are found to be guilty of the illegal payments should be the first to go, because I don't think that the innocent players should have to suffer. As for the club, as others have said, they will suffer with fines,sackings & probably jail sentences.
- Clint > slip April 24, 2010 at 1:19pm
  
  I agree, I am a bit of a fan of Gus but I think his stance on this whole matter is pretty weak, and is starting to piss me off. It seems like all he wants to do is push his own agenda's like his ideas on the salary cap. He needs to give it a rest and concentrate on footy tactics on Sunday.
Skipper April 24, 2010 at 12:53pm

The point of the salary cap breach is that they have been able to assemble a playing roster by paying "overs" in relation to the cap. If they are allowed to compete for points for the rest of the year by taking pay cuts - then they still have the same roster that was assembled illegally. If they were to win the comp again this year I am sure there would be even more outrage and dissatisfaction with the league for not doing enough to punish the Storm.

If they were to keep the current payments, but be forced to cut players until their cap was met, then there would be a number of players out of a job - as well as a club with less than their 25 member squad.

Each scenario is unworkable. Their is no solution that is not going to seem too harsh to one party or another. I think the current action is the only one that could be taken.