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Well the storm are set to take the wooden spoon for 2010.

Stripped of all points so far and not to be allocated anymore for this season for salary cap breaches.

Also stripped of two premierships and three minor premiorships plus $1/2m fine and hand back $1.1m prize money and further investigations re Fraud.
 
Best I have a beer when I get home to celebrate the Eels winning the 2009 Premiership then :)
 
And I thought they were just a team of good players. :banghead: I think S. Prince has/had a cloud over him about pulling in a bit on the side. Any on that Whiskers?
 
Wysiwyg said:
And I thought they were just a team of good players. :banghead:
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Yep, me too. I'm a fan of Slater a local Qld boy and Bellamy as a coach. Suggestions Bellamy is also one implicated in the fraud. :eek:

I think S. Prince has/had a cloud over him about pulling in a bit on the side. Any on that Whiskers?
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Last I heard NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert investigated the claims, and found there was no evidence Prince expected a $400,000 house to be built for him by Simpson (builder).
 
damm, wish I got on Storm for wooden spoon at 200/1 earlier this week.

There will be criminal charges, due to fraud.

Will smash the Storm for several years.

Their Captain will also be well and truely in the sights of the administrators, I cannot see how he could not have been knowingly involved, and in that instance, could not be absolved of wrongdoing
 
Stripped of points and premierships ??

Clearly the on-field activities are the sideshow.

If what they did is that bad, close down the club and dismember it.
 
Does this mean the 2007 MANLY WARRINGAH SEAEAGLES and the 2009 PARRAMATTA EELS will get the silverware?

Once again it proves my point of never backing anything with the word STORM in it's logo. Storm Financial, Melbourne Storm .. anyone see a pattern?
 
Whiskers said:
Yep, me too. I'm a fan of Slater a local Qld boy and Bellamy as a coach. Suggestions Bellamy is also one implicated in the fraud. :eek:
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Yep some of the best of Queensland in the team. Maybe they can play for N.Q. Cowboys the rest of the season. :p:

Okay with the Prince story. :)
 
trainspotter said:
Does this mean the 2007 MANLY WARRINGAH SEAEAGLES and the 2009 PARRAMATTA EELS will get the silverware?
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Apparently not, if I heard correctly from the press conference.

The Storm will be stripped and the title left vacant for those years.
 
prawn_86 said:
What a shambles Rugby League is
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Remember Carlton's salary cap breaches prawn. That was a shambles too.
Maybe the Storm could have taken a more subtle approach like the Ribot/Porky Morgan option and just let a few players been seen drinking/marketing the right beer in the right places.

Although, I don't think it is right that you generalize about the entire NRL. Note that a club like South Sydney has ditched pokies from it's Social Club and has returned from the dead after News & PBL were determined to wipe them out. I bet Ol Rupe isn't happy at all. :D
 
Whiskers said:
Apparently not, if I heard correctly from the press conference.

The Storm will be stripped and the title left vacant for those years.
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In the games (Olympic and Commonwealth) if someone is caught cheating then the medal goes to the 'next in line'. I would have thought it would be the same, but I guess Manly and the SE can argue that.
 
In the games (Olympic and Commonwealth) if someone is caught cheating then the medal goes to the 'next in line'. I would have though it would be the same?
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It can't really work like that because the teams that Melbourne knocked out in the finals series may have been better then the runners up.
 
newbie trader said:
In the games (Olympic and Commonwealth) if someone is caught cheating then the medal goes to the 'next in line'. I would have thought it would be the same, but I guess Manly and the SE can argue that.
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But how do you determine next in line, when all season the games have been against an unfair opponent etc etc
 
prawn_86 said:
But how do you determine next in line, when all season the games have been against an unfair opponent etc etc
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In olympic game types, running for instance, dont they have heats --> QF --> SF ---> medal races. They dont rerun all these races ? Maybe my line of thinking is off on this one.
 
newbie trader said:
In olympic game types, running for instance, dont they have heats --> QF --> SF ---> medal races. They dont rerun all these races ? Maybe my line of thinking is off on this one.
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Non team sports you are just essentially perfoming at your peak. Team sports such as rugby across a season mental aspects and injuries come into it.

If one team hadnt lost to the Storm in one year, that may have affected their attitude and helped them perform better etc. Also injurties, if a major injury occured against the team in question then what would have happened if they only had the 'proper' players they could afford...
 
prawn_86 said:
Non team sports you are just essentially perfoming at your peak. Team sports such as rugby across a season mental aspects and injuries come into it.

If one team hadnt lost to the Storm in one year, that may have affected their attitude and helped them perform better etc. Also injurties, if a major injury occured against the team in question then what would have happened if they only had the 'proper' players they could afford...
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Do you think that the other teams in the competition would mind if the SE and Manly were given the premiership for the respective years?
 
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