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  1. m0nty

    If the Swans and GWS were rorting the AFL cap to the extent of the Storm..

    The AFL has given their expansion clubs allowances totalling about double what the Storm's rorts did. The Storm went over the cap by $1.7M over five years, at a rate of $340k a year. During Brisbane’s three-peat of premierships, they had an extra salary cap of $780k per year. Something...
  2. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    Question: if a player or players from the Storm were found out to have been paid above the cap out of the second set of books, shouldn't they be barred from all rep footy for at least this year, if not future years?
  3. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    Waldron should have read the papers, doesn't he know what they do to crims in Barwon Jail?
  4. m0nty

    Waldron an AFL/Union plant?

    Ribot should be mentioned in this conversation too. Not that he was a plant, which is obviously ridiculous, but that he was only in it for himself and couldn't give a tinker's about the fabric of the sport. Ribot should be sacked and barred from any RL position in future.
  5. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    Of course the AFL has had rorting as well. AFL-blessed rorting, in the case of the Lions and Swans, and darker stuff like Carlton. Questions are being asked now about Frank Costa and Geelong along the same lines. The timing was not a decision the NRL could make, I agree that they had to bust...
  6. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    The timing of this is extraordinary. Just days before the Storm debut at Swan St. Could hardly be worse. Also timed spectacularly poorly for the next TV rights deal. All you merkins from north of the Murray who are celebrating this should know that it will likely impact your club's bottom line...
  7. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    This is an awful day for sport in Australia. Nothing good will come out of this, only pain. Surely the new Storm CEO, who was COO during the cheat years, has to be implicated as well. CEOs of both the Rebel and the Storm sacked on the same day you'd reckon. How did they think they would get...
  8. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    Hey sharko, you still haven't answered a very important question raised in that City v Country thread:
  9. m0nty

    The man who holds the key to TV sport

    Also, ANZ Stadium pushing for a Kangaroos vs Wallabies match is a joke. Imagine the potential for injury. Blokes would be under instruction by officials to go for the knees of the opposition, to destroy the other code's stars. Tell Mike Fitzpatrick he's dreamin'.
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    • Post #12
    • Forum: NRL
  10. m0nty

    The man who holds the key to TV sport

    Several bits stood out to me, primarily this one: That sentence sounds to me like it has several rather shaky clauses. Is Masters saying Nine would really abandon an AFL bid altogether and allow Seven/Ten to get a lower price for AFL due to lack of competition? Is Nine so cash-strapped that...
    • m0nty
    • Post #11
    • Forum: NRL
  11. m0nty

    Storm salary cap scandal thread

    That was a good point about the new stadium by HayneTrain. The NRL may go soft on the Storm for a number of reasons, but primary among them would be that they don't want to white-ant the team just as they move into Swan St. Waldron should be part of this story too, he was in charge when it...
  12. m0nty

    Code's so-called leaders found wanting as woes mount

    I wonder if his next article will draw an analogy of how union ran down its grassroots since the glory days of the early 90s and concentrated too much on the elite players, which is a crucial part of why it is crap these days, and how the NRL may be slowly rolling down that same path. NSW Cup =...
    • m0nty
    • Post #27
    • Forum: NRL
  13. m0nty

    RL independence day arrives - NRL Independent Commission announced for November 1

    Seems a reasonable statement. Oxygen and daylight would be good for this process.
    • m0nty
    • Post #949
    • Forum: NRL
  14. m0nty

    Anzac TV war between codes

    You've got to start somewhere, taxidriver. The AFL have been showing the Swans in Sydney for 20+ years as a loss leader. The NRL are decades behind in their similar incursions into Melbourne as far as TV coverage goes. The recent failures of basketball, union and soccer show that FTA coverage is...
    • m0nty
    • Post #123
    • Forum: NRL
  15. m0nty

    Channel Nine needs to shape up

    Wouldn't the Daily Telegraph be a much easier read with no ads. Lighter, too. They can pay Andrew Webster in beer nuts. The NRL has been getting screwed both ways with Nine controlling scheduling but not also paying top dollar for the privilege. You can't expect to have both evils taken away at...
  16. m0nty

    Best rugby video on the internet

    Surely this will be the ad the next NRL season.
  17. m0nty

    CEO Of Sports Lunch Today

    O'Neill had a good line halfway through where he said the chance of a gold medal in rugby sevens might be a lure for the likes of Thurstons or Inglis... but then the moderator got him back later on by asking him what he thought of Lote Tuqiri's return to rugby league, which had him sputtering...
  18. m0nty

    CEO Of Sports Lunch Today

    Gallop claiming that the last rights contract was a "great deal". Still looking for more in the next one, of course.
  19. m0nty

    CEO Of Sports Lunch Today

    Some bloke called Matthews from the AFL, never heard of him. Looks like a minor marketing flunky. Doesn't stop the host brown nosing him though.
  20. m0nty

    CEO Of Sports Lunch Today

    Watching it now. Still no Demetriou.

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