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Just on 9 News with Neil Breen:
Breen: John, in 2014 was the Parramatta hierarchy guaranteeing 3rd party payments to players?
Boulos: No certainly not, and you see the full minutes from 2014, we sent the full minutes when we were notified of the story, to the NRL, and we'll continue to work with them on that, certainly the extracts that appear don't create the intent of the discussion, the intent of the discussion was to do things by the books, and as a club we need to continue doing things by the books.
Breen: Why were those players (former players like Hayne) paid once their careers had ended at Parra?
Boulos: We're investigating that atm, those payments were unknown to us.
* on subject of corporate hospitality tickets*
Boulos: we reserved corporate hospitality tickets for our commercial partners and anyone we were trying to fo business with.
Breen: Did that include 3rd Party providers?
Boulos: Yeah, no, its not uncommon to that we look to try and work with all prospective partners, we have many partners that request additional tickets. Now for Round 1, and throughout the year we sell out hospitality a lot, if we don't keep an allocation there to induce new business, we're certainly not working in the best interests of growing our business.
Breen: Will Parramatta lose points?
Boulos: I can't committ, we are working with the NRL, that's all I can advise. We know there are issues to do with governance over many years, and thats caused through instability, we understand that's been an issue for many years at the Parramatta Eels. What we've comitted to is reform.
Breen: Does Steve Sharp need to resign?
Boulos: Steve Sharp & the board are leading this change, and therefore should have the responsibility to see this out and we're confident that we can (Breen interrupts)
Breen: It shouldn't be that hard though should it? Keep under the cap, put a team on the field, and provide home fans with some hope.
Boulos: *laughs* absolutely, it shouldn't be that hard, but unfortunately we are weighted down by some issues of the past and we need to get through them and when we get through them, I'm very confident that as a club what we've got in place will come out of the other side very positively.
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