www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sp ... architects? Jail terms may await Storm scam's architects Melbourne Storm's two most senior executives could face up to five years in jail and fines of A$200,000 under companies law if, after investigation, they are charged and convicted over their actions in the club's multimillion-dollar cheating scandal.

www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sp ... architects? Jail terms may await Storm scam's architects Melbourne Storm's two most senior executives could face up to five years in jail and fines of A$200,000 under companies law if, after investigation, they are charged and convicted over their actions in the club's multimillion-dollar cheating scandal.

all the players should be banned from the NRL and sent on loan to HullFC as 'community service' its the only fair way of resolving this issue

Because, of course, all players have an intimate knowledge of their club's finances!

And Craig Bellamy and Stephen Kearney,should be sent to teach Agar
how to coach a team.

Its against human rights to impose a sentence that includes the players being injured for the majority of the next 2 years ..

Are you really that naive?

I understand where you are coming from, but the more I read about this the harder I find it to believe that not 1 single player who has received additional payments over the past 5 years was not aware of what was happening. Admittedly, not every player that was involved may have realised, but I believe others will have.

Also, players talk. I am sure that having gauged roughly how much team mates where earning, some alarm bells will have been ringing for some players and it would have been blatantly obvious what was happening.

I’m not saying every player that has played for the storm over the last 5 years should be charged, but surely it is not unreasonable to expect any player who knowingly accepted additional payments should have to take responsibility for their part in this fiasco. In my opinion they are just as guilty as the storms big wigs in this underhand and blatant example of cheating and should be punished accordingly.

Exactly. Newspaper headline that "Player X signs for storm in $600,000 deal" when the player knows he's earning $1m.

How much knowledge of a club's finances do you think the average player has? I'd guess that it's roughly no knowledge at all.

Good. Hope the rest of the sport is investigated and dealt the same both in the UK and NRL.

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It's definitely possible that 1 or 2 of the highest earners suspected, that's much more likely than the 2 payslips for all theory IMO. I still personally feel that it's a possibility rather than a probability though.

With regard to players talking, that only strengthens the likelihood of them not knowing. It wouldn't have taken 5 years and a tip-off for it to come otherwise, the press would have had a sniff of it a long time before now. I think that by and large, most players probably don't know what each other earn though.

I totally agree that if it does come out that players knew about this they should be dealt with every bit as harshly as the club. I'm just struggling to see reasons why they would, and can't understand the certainty with which some seem to believe they did (not actually you, this bit).

He knows how much he's earning, what is published he's earning and how he's being paid it. He will also know how much some of his colleagues are being paid, what comparable players are being paid elsewhere, roughly what the going rate is for someone in his position with his level of experience, what he was offered elsewhere and where, roughly, in the club's wage structure he will be.

Now you may get some really dumb players who can't piece all of that together but I'm guessing most of them would

Yep.



How often is what a player's earning published? Accurately?



Yep.



Probably.



Completely irrelevant and inconsistent.



What?! Seriously?



Assuming he's been offered other contracts, this is entirely dependent on so many other factors as to be useless information.



Possibly, but knowing your place in the structure doesn't mean you have any idea what the other players are earning.



You're guessing most players would be able to piece together how much they are earning, how it is being paid, roughly what some team-mates might be getting and a rough guess of their place in the wage structure and deduce from that that the club is definitely deliberately and consistently cheating the salary cap? Time to set up the rugby league detective agency I think; Holmes, Marple, et al. will be out of jobs in no time.

You really are naiave aren't you.

I'm less naive than you are wrong.

the end game is that this seriously damages the entire game of RL and again makes it a laughing stock !!!
the term cheats does not ring loudly enough in my book for Melbourne!!
with that in mind i being to your attention the Warrington squad !!!