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Underachievers?

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I think best way to gauge how successful a team has been as look at the last 16 years, as that should if balanced every team have 1 title each, currently it is, as only 14 titles handed due to Melbourne cheating cap

Manly 2
Sydney Roosters 2
Newcastle 1
Penrith 1
Canterbury 1
Wests Tigers 1
Brisbane 1
Illawarra Stgeorge 1
Melbourne 1
Souths 1
North Queensland 1
Cronulla 1

After tommorrow Newcastle drop from the list, so basically there has been no stand out team in last 16 years
 

Weaponhead

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Massive underachievers and merkins of the highest order.

They have been propped up with a blank cheque to spend on their football department. The News Corp ownership was an abomination. The fact the punishment for cheating conveniently missed the coach was a farce. How the biggest control freak in the game could have had no knowledge of the systematic rorting defies belief. Flanno got 12 months whilst denying knowledge when he was accountable. The other bloke got nothing. f**k them.
 

Generalzod

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Massive underachievers and merkins of the highest order.

They have been propped up with a blank cheque to spend on their football department. The News Corp ownership was an abomination. The fact the punishment for cheating conveniently missed the coach was a farce. How the biggest control freak in the game could have had no knowledge of the systematic rorting defies belief. Flanno got 12 months whilst denying knowledge when he was accountable. The other bloke got nothing. f**k them.
Weaponhead I read somewhere that even when the news limited group sold the Storm, in the contracts the news limited group still had to prop them up only for acouple of years.
 

Weaponhead

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For us to be so petty over the team we beat in the Grand Final to win our first premiership, you f**kers are acting like we lost to the hartleys again.
Relax. We f**king WON.
Completely different issues.

They are a stain on the game.
Cap rorts, grapple tackles, chicken wings, wrestling coaches, cannonball tackles, kicking at players scoring tries.

Our club got messed up with Dank and did some shit through stupidity or desperation. Storm had the talent to achieve exactly what they have by playing the game how it was meant to be played but they chose to go a different path and have been substantially responsible for stuffing the game.
 

snout

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Massive underachievers and merkins of the highest order.

They have been propped up with a blank cheque to spend on their football department. The News Corp ownership was an abomination. The fact the punishment for cheating conveniently missed the coach was a farce. How the biggest control freak in the game could have had no knowledge of the systematic rorting defies belief. Flanno got 12 months whilst denying knowledge when he was accountable. The other bloke got nothing. f**k them.
No player is signed, resigned, or cut at any club without the head coach making, or being up to his eyeballs, in the decision.

How much more so with a guy like bellamy.

He knew who was coming in for those seasons and what dollars it took to get them...so hes constantly doing the maths to see who he can fit under the cap.

We are supposed to believe that AFTER all those discussions took place, backroom staffers at the Storm ran around behind bellamys back and offered said players extra money under the table??

Or...whilst in the process of negotiating with bellamy these same staffers were dealing with said players behind bellamys back telling them if they signed theyd get extra??

Yeah - that would a happened.
 

Frenzy.

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I think best way to gauge how successful a team has been as look at the last 16 years, as that should if balanced every team have 1 title each, currently it is, as only 14 titles handed due to Melbourne cheating cap

Manly 2
Sydney Roosters 2
Newcastle 1
Penrith 1
Canterbury 1
Wests Tigers 1
Brisbane 1
Illawarra Stgeorge 1
Melbourne 1
Souths 1
North Queensland 1
Cronulla 1

After tommorrow Newcastle drop from the list, so basically there has been no stand out team in last 16 years

Now do how many GFs played.
 

Frenzy.

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FMD this ranks with the dumbest threads of all time.

Someone throw the toys back in the cot FFS
 

roboshark

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I think best way to gauge how successful a team has been as look at the last 16 years, as that should if balanced every team have 1 title each, currently it is, as only 14 titles handed due to Melbourne cheating cap

Manly 2
Sydney Roosters 2
Newcastle 1
Penrith 1
Canterbury 1
Wests Tigers 1
Brisbane 1
Illawarra Stgeorge 1
Melbourne 1
Souths 1
North Queensland 1
Cronulla 1

After tommorrow Newcastle drop from the list, so basically there has been no stand out team in last 16 years
And for that parasite Rhyno

Parramatta. ..NIL
 

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We need something like www.capfriendly.com which tell us what the players are on for each year of contract, a guy started a site years back capgeek for NHL he later died but was even used by the clubs, i know this wouldnt fix the TPP payments, but if figures were available you could tell when a club is basically over and then pressure would be put on NRL.

Because the Storm team, i cant see how they were under the cap again this year
 

txta2

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funny how post match Bellamy believes 2007 was the.best team he coached. Probably because they were over the cap Craig
 

shadowboxer

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funny how post match Bellamy believes 2007 was the.best team he coached. Probably because they were over the cap Craig
But they are all under the blanket hiding from the fact it got taken away from them...still got the tat to prove that it is still a premiership
 

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