Storm salary cap scandal thread

[KeepingTheFaith]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/3611092/Betting-suspended-as-Storm-backed-for-wooden-spoon

A leading bookmaker has suspended betting on the NRL wooden spoon after fielding several bets for premiers Melbourne to finish last.

Title favourites Melbourne are currently fourth on the NRL ladder after four wins and two losses and have been the subject of a salary cap investigation.

"We took three bets to win $10,000 and another to win $8000 for the Storm to win the wooden spoon all within 10 minutes of each other this morning," said Sportingbet Australia spokesman Bill Richmond.

"You don’t take a series of bets like that unless someone knows something and we have suspended betting on the wooden spoon as a result.

"Melbourne is now our worst result for the wooden spoon despite the fact they are premiership favourites."

In 2002, the Bulldogs were deducted 37 competition points and fined $500,000 after being found guilty of salary cap breaches totalling more than $1 million in two seasons.

It took the Bulldogs from the top of the table to eventual wooden spooners.

 

[aids]

this sort of thing seems to happen every year, brisbane, roosters and i think the 2nd time for the storm in the past.
nothing usually happens, and someone is out of pocket for some serious coin.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Yeah didn't think much of it. Sounds like foolish betting hoping to get lucky.

 

[Tipster]

Some punter must be bored

 

[taxidriver]

also reported in the smh now

 

[RufusRex]

even if the storm were stripped of 34 points the sharks would still get the spoon.

 

[Noa]

Meh, if theyre gonna do it hurry up and do it so we can win 15 or 16 on the trot to still make the finals.

 

[Red Bear]

Bets to win 10 000? They wouldnt actually be particularly big bets would they, because I'd imagine Melbourne were at massive odds to win the spoon in the first place.

Wouldnt even be someone plunging, just some throwing a lazy hundred or so on a result.

 

[Cayless Hindmarsh]

According to the TAB's wooden spoon odds:


6101 Brisbane 6.50 $
6102 Bulldogs 41.00 $
6103 Canberra 11.00 $
6104 Manly 101.00 $
6105 Melbourne 21.00 $
6106 Newcastle 11.00 $
6107 NZ Warriors 17.00 $
6108 North Queensland 8.00 $
6109 Parramatta 51.00 $
6110 Penrith 101.00 $
6111 St George Illawarra 201.00 $
6112 Cronulla 1.70 $
6113 South Sydney 41.00 $
6114 Sydney Roosters 41.00 $
6115 Wests Tigers 101.00 $
6116 Gold Coast 67.0 $

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

im unloading on the sharks at 1.70
thats a f**king good interest rate.

 

[slammingsam]

Apparently they could lose all there points and be fined a 6 figure sum.

 

[Parra]

Bets to win 10 000? They wouldnt actually be particularly big bets would they, because I'd imagine Melbourne were at massive odds to win the spoon in the first place.

Wouldnt even be someone plunging, just some throwing a lazy hundred or so on a result.

Is it only one bookie?

There is no hundred that is that lazy.

If it's more than one bookie then suspending the betting like this is a bad thing. Smacks of insider knowledge & therefore some level of corruption

 

[aids]

hogwash

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

According to the TAB's wooden spoon odds:


6101 Brisbane 6.50 $
6102 Bulldogs 41.00 $
6103 Canberra 11.00 $
6104 Manly 101.00 $
6105 Melbourne 21.00 $
6106 Newcastle 11.00 $
6107 NZ Warriors 17.00 $
6108 North Queensland 8.00 $
6109 Parramatta 51.00 $
6110 Penrith 101.00 $
6111 St George Illawarra 201.00 $
6112 Cronulla 1.70 $
6113 South Sydney 41.00 $
6114 Sydney Roosters 41.00 $
6115 Wests Tigers 101.00 $
6116 Gold Coast 67.0 $

So someone has had a go at them on the TAB as well. You would expect that they should be a similar price to Manly and Wests at the very least but most likely a similar price to the Dragons considering the start to the year and the fact that they are reigning premiers.

When punters start throwing reasonable money at odds like that, you know there is something fishy going on.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

All this gambling talk in rugby league is going to come back and bite the the NRL in the ass one day,someone will get done for match fixing one day or something else dodgy.


Centrebet sponsoring the footy show,constant live odds updates during games etc etc


RIP NRL

 

[parra-matters]

some of the refereeing would make you think matches are fixed.

 

[Fui!!!]

this sort of thing seems to happen every year, brisbane, roosters and i think the 2nd time for the storm in the past.
nothing usually happens, and someone is out of pocket for some serious coin.

If they are paying $100 to get the spoon, the bet would only have been $100.

 

[Cayless Hindmarsh]

If they are paying $100 to get the spoon, the bet would only have been $100.

They would have been at least $201 like the Dragons so it would have only been a $50 bet.

But I am sure I heard Hadley while I was in the car say that there was a $10000 bet on the Storm to get the wooden spoon. A bet that size, not to win $10000.

 

[UnderDawgg]

Just to clarify, the odds for the three bets placed were 10,000 8000 and 8000. Which means that the actual bets placed would have been no more than $110. Still, for three different people to place such strange bets on Melbourne for the spoon something must be going on. Either that or 3 mates spent a little to long at the pub last night

 

[jc155776]

They were $251

So about a $40 bet.

Big deal. We all know the Storm cheat, but they will never be caught.