Melbourne cheats

[Johnny Tobin]

****!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chook Norris]

one man, BRIAN WALDRON

.. and he left the Storm in tatters before the ship sunk

[Guest]

This is a wind up I cannot see how they can wstrip them of there 2009 premiership win and have no premiers let alone strp them of the 2007 premiership

No wind up. They cheated.

[Andrew Walker]

So this is official ?

[Guest]

I bet Eels will be making it like they were premiers now... I could see the signs at their next game 'Eels Premiers 2009'




Gotta feel sorry for the players busting their gut each week and for Melbourne fans though

Last year's grand final was the 4th vs 5th playoff against Manly.

[Guest]

So this is official ?

Have a look at the NRL site.

[Guest]

This punishment would make the Roosters the team of the decade :-)

[novice chook]

How is stripping them of the 2 premierships work - do they demand the premiership rings etc back off the players, delete their name from the record books etc?

Interesting days indeed.


NC

[Guest]

As much as i hate this, how will this effect the game in Victoria. Sad day for the NRL indeed.

[redwhiteandbluester]

Parra and Manly will not be awarded the Premierships; they will be awarded to no-one.

They have to return $1.1 million prize money which will be distributed to the other 15 clubs.

They will end 2010 on 0 competition points - they have been docked all their points so far, and cannot gain any more points.

This is an unbelievable story, more sinister than the Canterbury situation. The fraud has been passed on to Police.

[supermario]

Does anyone else remember how the year ended when there was a major salary cap breach??????

Wishful thinking i know, but hey why not dream !

[redwhiteandbluester]

Time for finger pointing:

Brian Waldron is the obvious one, an absolute scab of a human being. AFL person who obviously cooked the books, and jumped ship - very embarrassing for Melbourne Rebels S15 franchise.

News boss John Hartigan blames Waldron and called him the 'architect' of the whole thing, what a slime bag.

Typical News Ltd scumbags, the lot of them. An absolute disgrace to the code; an evil company controlling a club that was, evidently, run by a group of classless individuals with no regard for this brilliant sport.

F*ck you Melbourne, F*ck you News Ltd.

[Rooster_6]

Sad day for the NRL...

Sounds like Gallop had known about this for a while...

[supermario]

From Gallop

Gallop added the Storm need to quickly find a way to rectify the situation to have any chance of regaining their status in the competition.

"Certainly by the 2011 season they need to be operating within the salary cap and how they do that I'm not sure at this stage,'' he said.

So which players do we pick up from the carcass that is The Storm????

[Guest]

Time for finger pointing:

Brian Waldron is the obvious one, an absolute scab of a human being. AFL person who obviously cooked the books, and jumped ship - very embarrassing for Melbourne Rebels S15 franchise.

News boss John Hartigan blames Waldron and called him the 'architect' of the whole thing, what a slime bag.

Typical News Ltd scumbags, the lot of them. An absolute disgrace to the code; an evil company controlling a club that was, evidently, run by a group of classless individuals with no regard for this brilliant sport.

F*ck you Melbourne, F*ck you News Ltd.

You can't blame News, They were in the dark as much as we were.