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Poupou Escobar

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8yrs ago I said they where building a powerhouse and was laughed at.
@TheRam do you remember?
This would've been shortly after they announced they had spent $22M on their new academy:


Meanwhile we are still training out of demountables ffs
 

Poupou Escobar

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How can you say with certainty that they aren’t cheating the cap? Every team could be cheating and we’d never know unless there was a whistleblower. Maloney admitted in an interview a few years back that he was waiting for the club to sort out a sponsorship which I believe would’ve been cheating, have they stopped this practice?
They paid a huge salary to their star player’s dad when they were trying to re-sign him.
 

Poupou Escobar

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They keep shedding key players. Api, Kikau, Crichton and now Luai being the big ones.
Maybe they weren’t key players? They still had five merkins picked in Origin this year, and that’s with Cleary unavailable. Losing players from an overpowered team doesn’t mean you’re not cheating the cap. Last time any team was even close to being this dominant they were found to be cheating.
 

Gronk

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FFS 3 pages of why didn’t we sign Alamoti. For all you f**kwits know, he had an offer from Penrith, Roosters and told us to get f**ked from day one.

122 days to go.
 

hineyrulz

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FFS 3 pages of why didn’t we sign Alamoti. For all you f**kwits know, he had an offer from Penrith, Roosters and told us to get f**ked from day one.

122 days to go.
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory Tantrum GIF
 

King-Gutho94

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FFS 3 pages of why didn’t we sign Alamoti. For all you f**kwits know, he had an offer from Penrith, Roosters and told us to get f**ked from day one.

122 days to go.
Calling all the posters F.wits

Thats a new low even for you Gronk.

What part of Alamonti discussion really annoyed you so much.
 

Zoso

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Of course I can’t say with certainty. But come on.

What is wrong with me being complimentary?

I’m not on my own. Most club fans I think would say the same thing. “Good on you, geez I hope my club can replicate just a small bit.”

Honestly though, I think there is little to zero chance of them doing the wrong thing.
It’s not so much a matter of cheating but having access the third party deals. But hey, if they have that access those, they are following the rules. If that’s a problem it’s a problem with the rules (seperate discussion).
But interestingly there’s a bit of a difference between the Panthers and the Roosters/Storm…the Panthers have lost plenty of quality in their run they would have liked to keep.
How often do the Roosters or Storm lose players, at or near their peak, to other clubs they would have otherwise liked to keep.
You could say the Panthers have the depth to bring in the newbies cheaper but they still lose them…
Edit: but well played Stevie, there’s no denying they are greats, and they deserve credit.
 

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