Parra vs Storm - June 4

[Gronk]

Welcome to Sydney, enjoy your spray: Melbourne should expect barrage

BRAD WALTER

May 17, 2010
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PARRAMATTA officials are unconcerned about potential crowd trouble when the beaten 2009 grand finalists become the first Sydney team to host Melbourne since the salary cap scandal that has engulfed the club.
Melbourne players were subjected to chants of ''cheats, cheats, cheats'' during Saturday night's defeat of the Raiders at Canberra Stadium and the hostility is expected to worsen when they visit Parramatta Stadium on June 4, with many Eels fans believing their club was robbed of last year's premiership by a team deliberately operating above the NRL's $4.1 million salary cap.
By then the Storm could be playing for competition points if the four independent directors of the club taking legal action over the decision to strip Melbourne of the 2007 and 2009 premierships succeed in gaining an injunction against all penalties imposed by the NRL until the court case is completed.
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If all the competition points from games won this season were restored, Melbourne would currently be in second place ahead of Gold Coast on for-and-against.
The Storm have a bye next weekend and then host Canterbury at AAMI Park before travelling to Sydney for the first time since the $1.85 million in rorts were exposed to play the Eels.
Despite stripping the titles won by the Storm since 2006, the NRL has not awarded them to Parramatta and 2007 grand finalists Manly. But Eels and Sea Eagles fans believe their teams were wrongly denied premierships by Melbourne and are expected to vent their fury when the Storm play at Parramatta and Brookvale Oval, in round 22.
Whereas Canberra supporters taunted Storm players by waving $20 and $50 notes at them, Eels fans threw coins in the direction of the Manly bench and booed loudly every time Jamie Lyon touched the ball when the Test centre returned to Parramatta Stadium in 2007 for the first time since quitting the club three years earlier.
However, Parramatta chief executive Paul Osborne said he wasn't anticipating a repeat of those scenes when the Eels host Melbourne and the club has no plans to step up security at this stage. ''I think the Melbourne players are probably going to have get used to copping a bit from the fans of other teams for the rest of the season but I'd like to think our supporters are a bit more subdued than the Raiders fans. I don't think we've got any worries,'' he said.
With South Sydney and the Bulldogs transferring their home games against Melbourne interstate, the only other times the Storm will play in Sydney this season be against Manly and Wests Tigers in round 25.
Storm stars Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Greg Inglis and Cooper Cronk are likely to play for Queensland at ANZ Stadium in Origin I on May 26. ''Origin is Origin,'' NSWRL boss Geoff Carr said. ''If you play in Sydney and you are wearing a Queensland jersey the fans are probably going to give you a hard time anyway.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...urne-should-expect-barrage-20100516-v6gq.html

 

[newmanj]

I think Paul Osbourne is underestimating the reception likely to be given to the Storm. If the points are restored to the storm prior to that date, i think the reception will be even worse.

I also believe that the worse the reception is for the Storm, the better they will play. They have really thrived during the last month, and have a real siege mentally at the moment. Will be an extremely difficult game for us to win.

 

[Parra Guru]

:lol: blind Freddy could have written this one!

Whereas Canberra supporters taunted Storm players by waving $20 and $50 notes at them, Eels fans threw coins in the direction of the Manly bench and booed loudly every time Jamie Lyon touched the ball when the Test centre returned to Parramatta Stadium in 2007 for the first time since quitting the club three years earlier.

OMG what a bunch of ferals :lol:

 

[dazeely]

f**k I hate Manly.

 

[EelsFan05]

The Judas return will be worse for me then the scum coming to Parramatta Stadium in June.

 

[Parra Guru]

I love Canberra fans though, they always do their best to represent everyone's feelings!!

 

[dazeely]

I hear you eelsfan.

The storm players are the innocEnt ones caught in the middle of this huge mess. We should feel for them rather than curse. Poor f**king cheating scum sucking sh*tbags.

 

[Kornstar]

Why shouldn't fans be upset towards the Storm?

They are still cheating and while they are cheating they are smacking your team and smiling and laughing about it, celebrating like they have just won the GF........it is quite sickening to tell you the truth!

I can't say i won't be calling out cheat towards them when they are like 40-0 up and still celebrating after every try like they are winning a close game or something!

 

[parra-matters]

scum of the highest order.
I still believe some of the players knew where thier payments were coming from.

 

[SDM]

scum of the highest order.
I still believe some of the players knew where thier payments were coming from.

The denials of the big 4 are insulting to fans intelligence.

 

[Nikki]

I love Canberra fans though, they always do their best to represent everyone's feelings!!

Thats coz they have time to sit around thinking up witty slogans.. Not like they have anything else to do in Canberra :lol:

 

[Parra Guru]

I still think it's cool :lol:

 

[ianlovesparra]

Come on guys, we heard it from Billy Slater and Cameron Smith...the players knew nothing :sarcasm:

 

[Swiftstylez]

Got my tickets to the grand final replay a few weeks ago and they aren't the best seats in the world. Got my tickets to the Knights game and they are amazing. This game is going to be packed out.

:lol:
OMG what a bunch of ferals :lol:

lol I know right, f**king disgusting.

 

[TheParraboy]

Come on guys, we heard it from Billy Slater and Cameron Smith...the players knew nothing :sarcasm:

and as Billy mentioned it still doesnt hide the fact that they worked real hard to be a great side

:BDH:

 

[Nikki]

I still think it's cool :lol:

Oh yeah for sure. Love Canberra fans' work..

"Oh Can-ber-ra
Is won-der-ful
Oh Canberra is wonderful..
We have a lake
And the Raiders
Oh Canberra is wonderful!"

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[The EELiminator]

and as Billy mentioned it still doesnt hide the fact that they worked real hard to be a great side

:BDH:

pfft we worked hard too busted our arses to make the grand final last year then had to lose gulavou kingston and lowrie now we are losing inu and mateo
i hope they are plundered so hard by all the other teams it takes them 5 years to put another decent side together

 

[bartman]

I think Paul Osbourne is underestimating the reception likely to be given to the Storm.

Agree.

If the points are restored to the storm prior to that date, i think the reception will be even worse.

Agree. If by some slim and unfair chance any points are restored, we should riot!

I also believe that the worse the reception is for the Storm, the better they will play.

Agree, but Brisbane managed to shut them down quite easily in this past month.... I think we need to make it too hard for them to bother wanting to play, both on field with the intensity of our players in the first half, and off field with the crowd reaction.

We should get a coordinated waving of cash (bright $20 bills) going in the stands, and people near the fence should bring lots of wooden spoons to rattle against the hoardings. I'd happily chant "cheats" at the Storm for the whole 80 minutes!

 

[natheel]

lol can't wait for this game it'll be absolutly crazy and hopefully mebourne try to give it to us coz im sure we will be ready!

 

[Freak2]

I'll be dissappointed if the Parra faithful did not absoultey give it to them. In 2 weeks. I sure as hell I will be!!

As well put previously they are still cheating. They are over the cap. Even if (of course they knew) the players did not know they were getting paid over and above the cap. THEY KNOW NOW!! How many have asked for an immediate release????