Eels Salary Cap MK II

[Johnny88]

A couple years ago there was a Fox sports promo with all the NRL staff. Kent had one line in this where he speaks to Ikin on the video phone and it was something like "or Ben sucking up to the players! " Ben replied Sucking up? " Anyway he sounded so smug and arrogant in that promo actually he sounds like this every time he speaks. On 360 this week he quietly said " Yeah Parra played well on weekend uh yeah anyway.. He cant even compliment us without sooking.

 

[hindy111]

If we have been investigated then so should every other club.

Otherwise it is a bit of a joke really.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

If we have been investigated then so should every other club.

Otherwise it is a bit of a joke really.

Well, if other clubs have an insider or former insider who decides to report various issues to the NRL, then you'd expect the same treatment.

What do you want the NRL to do, in the absence of a specific complaint (beyond what they already do with all clubs)?

 

[Kornstar]

Well, if other clubs have an insider or former insider who decides to report various issues to the NRL, then you'd expect the same treatment.

What do you want the NRL to do, in the absence of a specific complaint (beyond what they already do with all clubs)?

There should be professional audits regularly of every club. What they do is not good enough for a business that turns over as much as the NRL does.

NRL commissioned audits that is.

 

[Noise]

There should be professional audits regularly of every club. What they do is not good enough for a business that turns over as much as the NRL does.

NRL commissioned audits that is.

I'm pretty sure they already do biannual audits

 

[Kornstar]

I'm pretty sure they already do biannual audits

Not from real auditors though, just the nuffies that they employ.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

There should be professional audits regularly of every club. What they do is not good enough for a business that turns over as much as the NRL does.

NRL commissioned audits that is.

There are!

 

[El Diablo]

Well, if other clubs have an insider or former insider who decides to report various issues to the NRL, then you'd expect the same treatment.

What do you want the NRL to do, in the absence of a specific complaint (beyond what they already do with all clubs)?

no, they should do it regardless

if it takes a forensic audit to catch clubs then that's what they should do

they can't just do it to one club if their normal audit came back showing everything was OK when it really wasn't

 

[hineyrulz]

Do those auditors also work in the bunker????

 

[El Diablo]

they were taught by Moffo and his auditing for dummies course

 

[Gronk]

Massive double standards.

 

[Kornstar]

There are!

By who?

 

[hybrideel]

So Bourbon pretty much accused the Emporer, Roy and Sharpy of systematically cheating the cap given that it has apparently been happening for over a decade. I won't be suprised if she is sued, sleeps with the fishes or has backed up toilets for life now

 

[eloquentEEL]

Surely the club can sue based on that article

Forget the club. She's implied EVERY individual in Eels administration over 10 years. I wonder if she can even spell "class action".

 

[eloquentEEL]

Actually, scrap that. She hasn't implied. She's stated it explicitly.

 

[hindy111]

I wonder if someone gets knocked off thru all of this

 

[hindy111]

So Barry what your saying is TPA's should not be looked at unless someone rats them out?

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Forget the club. She's implied EVERY individual in Eels administration over 10 years. I wonder if she can even spell "class action".

Have you ever heard of a class action for defamation? It doesn't happen. And corporations cannot sue for defamation any more in NSW (with some minor exception).

There's very little chance of any successful action against her on the basis of that repugnant article. If she starts saying 'This bloke did X' then the chances rise.

 

[El Diablo]

so what makes you think she can accuse every board member and CEO over the last 10 years of cheating the cap?

especially if they haven't been doing so

seems a clear cut case of defamation

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

so what makes you think she can accuse every board member and CEO over the last 10 years of cheating the cap?

especially if they haven't been doing so

seems a clear cut case of defamation

This is the most contentious sentence in the article.

"If a board member (fill in any name you like here) has been anywhere within a bull?s roar of that Eels boardroom, he is likely to have been party to deals that were not just rife but minuted because they were so, well, normal."

There is no way you could win a defamation case on that.

And as I said above, a corporation can't sue for defamation in NSW. And the allegations are not sufficiently specific regarding identity of those accused. She also protects herself by using 'likely'. Finally, there is a demonstrable truth behind part of the suggestions (i.e. we have been nailed for cap breaches over many years).

Not a snowflakes chance in hell of successfully suing on the basis of that article.

There is an other action called 'injurious falsehood' (I think that exists in NSW), but I don't think that would work here either.