Like when the Melbourne Storm were caught cheating the salary cap in 2010, it is essentially a second set of books the Eels were running.
No one outside of the club’s powerbrokers was supposed to know of its existence
This tells me all I need to know.
Parramatta and their fans cry foul at losing to a team way over the cap (which is fair enough) and then they go and do the exact same thing.
f**k Parramatta. Zero sympathy from me. Not that they were going to get it from me anyway!
Greenberg should go one step further and bar them from competing for points at all in step with what happened at Storm. The 12 points was the preliminary penalty, right? Does that mean the punishment has the potential to be harsher as well as potential to be softer?
You can talk to me until you are blue in the face about Melbourne being X amount over a $Y cap and Parra being a certain amount over the revised cap (because it went up over time by the NRL)... cheating is still cheating. The Parra Five went out of their way to lie, hide and outright deceive the NRL then had the f**king audacity to cry foul when they got hit with a punishment that was pretty limp dicked to begin with.
Surley this is cause to make the penalty more severe. Boutros, Anderson, Seward (who was apparently seen as successor to Mark Evans at Melbourne! Looks like we dodged a bullet there!) Et all should be added to the list with Brian Waldron and Matt Hanson and never be allowed within a stray pube of the game of rugby league ever again!