Salary Cap

[El Diablo]

Sorry but I cant access the article because of Rupert's paywall.

Anyway Rothfield says that we're sweet now with the -4 points thing.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...h/news-story/2f05925a5a25871e2fef3d0beade6452

SHOOSH I

We?re hearing the NRL and Parramatta are close to resolving their salary cap disputes and the Eels will definitely NOT be docked four competition points.

 

[El Diablo]

once again Grant leaks to the media but refuses to tell the players until the 29th

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...h/news-story/ab2a841cdf554c76d66791aadf36f490

Eels to avoid starting season 2016 on minus four points for salary cap breach
39 minutes ago
Paul CrawleyThe Daily Telegraph

CROSS your fingers and toes Parramatta fans, but it looks like peace is finally coming to your club — at long last.

The Eels are poised to avoid starting the season on minus four competition points as they finally escape the potentially season-defining penalty due to last season’s salary cap breach.

Sources close to the NRL on Wednesday night confirmed an agreement was “very close” to being finalised over compliance change at the club.

It means, with just a week until the Eels host premiership favourites Brisbane in an opening-match blockbuster next Thursday night, long-suffering blue-and-gold fans can finally get excited about their season.

After nine months of painstaking negotiations with the NRL that at one point appeared headed to the Supreme Court, The Daily Telegraph can reveal the club and the NRL are now working through some of the fine details — and a timetable for when all the recommendations need to be implemented ahead of next Monday’s deadline.

There is now every chance this could all be settled before the weekend, that would allow coach Brad Arthur to finally concentrate on getting his new-look team focused without the threat of having the season destroyed before it even starts.

The other big winners in this will be Parramatta’s legion of fans, who have seen their club go on an impressive 2016 signing spree, netting the likes of NSW Origin stars Michael Jennings and Beau Scott and New Zealand international Kieran Foran.

But they’ve also had to endure years of internal backstabbing — with key constitutional change to the makeup of the board and future elections perhaps the most positive outcome of all.

The idea is to reduce the instability that has plagued the club in recent years.

Before anything is signed off on though, the Eels still need to meet the NRL over a range of issues that relate to the 119 recommended changes to the club’s governance put forward by the review carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

After already being slapped with a $460,000 fine last year for previous salary cap breaches, it is understood at this point Parramatta have agreed to the majority of changes.

But the key ones still to be finalised relate to the club’s constitution.

They include three points:

* A commitment to change their constitution to allow directors to be appointed to the Football Club from outside the Leagues Club membership. Those from outside the Leagues Club would be selected by the Parramatta Board (the NRL would have no input);

* The recommendations include a requirement to have a majority of independent directors who have no business or commercial interests with the Leagues Club or Football Club; and

* There would also be a commitment to introduce a staggered election cycle — rather than have the entire Board elected at the same time (every two years).

This final point is significant.

It would require a vote of Leagues Club members but over time the NRL expect the Club will introduce a system that will require a third of Leagues Club directors to stand for election each year, rather than the full board standing every second year.

A source close to Parramatta said on Wednesday: “Based on our close working relationship with the NRL throughout this process we are confident of a positive resolution prior to round one.”

 

[Basil Brush]

So all the talk is we will avoid the -4point penalty.

Good way to start the season.

Now bring on the Bronco's

 

[not graham olling]

So all the talk is we will avoid the -4point penalty.

Good way to start the season.

Now bring on the Bronco's

Let hope that is the case. Starting on same points as everyone else is good.

And those directors who opposed the changes let it be known that your cards are marked. Those of us who are members and know people at the club know what needs to be done at the next election with those directors. They are self centred And I'm not sure if they are really blue and gold people.... Pollies who are blow-ins makes me ask what are their real motivations

 

[Stagger eel]

Let hope that is the case. Starting on same points as everyone else is good.

And those directors who opposed the changes let it be known that your cards are marked. Those of us who are members and know people at the club know what needs to be done at the next election with those directors. They are self centred And I'm not sure if they are really blue and gold people.... Pollies who are blow-ins makes me ask what are their real motivations

this is why I hate tickets...

dont forget about his mates that were currently there who backed them to begin with..

 

[Gronk]

Grant is happy to tell the media what he'll do but the f**kwit won't tell Parra shit until the 29th

get rid of this clown who couldn't run a brothel

Josh Massoud ‏@josh_massoud 1m1 minute ago
BREAKING: Great news for @TheParraEels. ARLC chairman John Grant has confirmed the club will NOT be deducted four points for cap breaches.

 

[Basil Brush]

Josh Massoud ‏@josh_massoud 1m1 minute ago
BREAKING: Great news for @TheParraEels. ARLC chairman John Grant has confirmed the club will NOT be deducted four points for cap breaches.

That is very good news.

Not often we have been able to say this in the RECENT past, but well done to the club (I assume the board) for working through this and getting the desired result.

 

[El Diablo]

Jake will be pissed we're not getting docked 4 points

 

[IFR33K]

Great news for the club. Great to see sharp not just roll over and be royally screwed by the NRL.

 

[Basil Brush]

I read some opposition fans today saying this sets a bad precedent i.e. they are saying clubs can now cheat the salary cap and get away with it.

Ah, we got a massive fine and had to put in a number of governance procedures. Not sure how that is getting away with things.

 

[Jake the snake]

Jake will be pissed we're not getting docked 4 points

:lol: exactly the opposite!! Well done to all the supporters and the nrl who called out our chairman on one of many errors that he's made. I'm actually very happy that the club is moving forward in the right direction and that the current chairman was found out to be trying to protect his job by resisting much needed constitutional change that he originally promised but failed to deliver. It was Only when he had a gun pointed to his head did he cowardly make the right move, he saw that the writing was on the wall and supporters would have lynched him if he lost us the 4 points. Hopefully the most important thing is that these changes will get us professional operators on the board and not backyard plumbers as we have now.

It's actually people like you that defended the current board and the so called embarrassing "legal action" ploy who should hang their heads in shame.

Hopefully professional change is on its way

I'm ready for the footy now El Dicko, are you??

 

[Jake the snake]

Great news for the club. Great to see sharp not just roll over and be royally screwed by the NRL.

No No he didn't roll over the nrl just got their way on all of their points :lol::lol:

 

[Twizzle]

Maybe good governance has started.

 

[Gronk]

:lol: exactly the opposite!! Well done to all the supporters and the nrl who called out our chairman on one of many errors that he's made. I'm actually very happy that the club is moving forward in the right direction and that the current chairman was found out to be trying to protect his job by resisting much needed constitutional change that he originally promised but failed to deliver. It was Only when he had a gun pointed to his head did he cowardly make the right move, he saw that the writing was on the wall and supporters would have lynched him if he lost us the 4 points. Hopefully the most important thing is that these changes will get us professional operators on the board and not backyard plumbers as we have now.

It's actually people like you that defended the current board and the so called embarrassing "legal action" ploy who should hang their heads in shame.

Hopefully professional change is on its way

I'm ready for the footy now El Dicko, are you??

How do you know that it wasn't the NRL that "rolled over" ?

I don't care either way (constitutional change or not), but it seems to me that you're making assumptions as to what actually happened. Maybe there was a compromise ?

 

[hineyrulz]

Maybe good governance has started.

And Stuff

Massive relief for all concerned especially the players and coaching staff. Roll on next Thursday night!!

 

[hineyrulz]

How do you know that it wasn't the NRL that "rolled over" ?

I don't care either way (constitutional change or not), but it seems to me that you're making assumptions as to what actually happened. Maybe there was a compromise ?

lol

 

[El Diablo]

:lol: exactly the opposite!! Well done to all the supporters and the nrl who called out our chairman on one of many errors that he's made. I'm actually very happy that the club is moving forward in the right direction and that the current chairman was found out to be trying to protect his job by resisting much needed constitutional change that he originally promised but failed to deliver. It was Only when he had a gun pointed to his head did he cowardly make the right move, he saw that the writing was on the wall and supporters would have lynched him if he lost us the 4 points. Hopefully the most important thing is that these changes will get us professional operators on the board and not backyard plumbers as we have now.

It's actually people like you that defended the current board and the so called embarrassing "legal action" ploy who should hang their heads in shame.

Hopefully professional change is on its way

I'm ready for the footy now El Dicko, are you??

lol

you are fuming

 

[Jake the snake]

lol

you are fuming

Typical response el Dicko, you've got nothing :lol:

 

[Poupou Escobar]

It's pretty obvious you were hoping for the drama of starting on -4.

 

[El Diablo]

Typical response el Dicko, you've got nothing :lol: