The news from the NRL today was extremely surprising to most rugby league fans and sports reporters. The Melbourne team, the Melbourne Storm, have rorted the system for at least 5 years and paid their players amounts above the salary cap. It is no wonder that they were able to keep the majority of their team together and even attract new players. What they did was cheat.
The NRL have stripped the club of three minor premierships, two premierships and all the points gained this year as well as not being allow to accrue any points for the rest of 2010. They were also fined a large sum of money and told to return the prize money gained from the two premierships they were stripped of.
This might kill the team in Melbourne especially with a new rugby union team starting there soon.
I totally agree with this blog about the Melbourne Storm cheating the NRL system to contain their star players. However in saying that i believe if the Melbourne storm can show that they are below the salary cap they should be able to accrue points for the remainder of the season. As they will be not breaking any rules, thus should be considered as a fair and competing team.
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