Posts Tagged "Melbourne Storm Salary cap"

Let’s imagine for a moment that an alien from a distant galaxy managed to land on earth, somewhere, possibly, just beyond the Blue Mountains, sometime earlier this year.

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NRL CEO David Gallop launched an attack on Melbourne Storm supporters that no person in such a position should ever have muttered.

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Melbourne skipper Cameron Smith says the club’s surge to the NRL minor premiership explodes the myth that Craig Bellamy wasn’t the architect of their past success.

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Craig Bellamy could be forgiven a rueful shake of the head at the news that Rupert Murdoch had decided on the nuclear option of closing the News of the World in order to take the sting out of the phone hacking scandal.

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David Riolo, one of the four NRL player agents whose careers are on the line, says he wasn’t even interviewed as part of the investigations into the Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal.

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The Melbourne Storm’s reputation as the greatest NRL outfit over the past decade suffered a massive blow last season when it was revealed the club had been rorting the salary cap for the past four years.

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The body which governs NRL player agents will seek legal advice over what it labelled “serious allegations” surrounding the activities of mangers involved in the Melbourne Storm salary cap breach.

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2010 has been a year of many surprises in sport. Some were good, but most were bad – and some were just very bad. Here is the list of biggest shocks in 2010:

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“And so this is Christmas. And what have we done? Another year over,” sang John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their famous song. As the year draws to a close, what has the Australian sporting scene done in 2010?

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2010 has been highlighted by some fantastic sporting moments. Let’s have a look at the ten biggest moments from the year.

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Melbourne Storm boss Ron Gauci says the NRL club is emerging from the salary cap debacle in better shape than he expected. Doomsayers predicted the demise of the Storm after it was revealed in April the club had been systematically rorting the salary cap between 2006 and 2010 to the tune of more than $3 [...]

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Cheats. Drugs. Sex. Betrayal. Excess overtook excellence in Australia’s sporting year. Thinking rugby league? Think Melbourne Storm. And a man and a dog. AFL? A drug addict. A favourite son disowned.

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Greg Inglis is doing himself no favours. He is either naïve and stupid, incredibly greedy and ill advised, or both. History will not be kind to him.

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Approximately one year ago, I wrote my debut article for The Roar, discussing the potential effects the Melbourne Rebels Super rugby team would have on the Melbourne Storm. If a week is a long time in football, a year is an eternity.

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Something is very wrong with our major rugby league code in this country. Not only has it just endured the worst conspiracy in Australia’s sporting history and has lost two of the sport’s best players, it is now burning possible future bridges.

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As the on-field action starts to fade into memory for 2010, I’ve been thinking about what 2011 will bring. As the mind runs through various scenarios, you start to factor in different things: injuries, origin, salary cap pressures and wonder where teams will end up at this time next year.

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Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy insists it’s business as usual as the Storm prepare for their final match of the NRL season against Newcastle on Sunday.

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The signing of Greg Inglis could prove to be one of the most important in the history of the Brisbane Broncos. In one (albeit very expensive) foul swoop the Broncos have potentially found the piece of the puzzle which will return the club to their halcyon days of the early 90s when they were the [...]

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The long-running Greg Inglis saga is over with the superstar rugby league Test centre heading to Brisbane next season.

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The recent press conference held by News Limited was an enthralling 45 minutes. News Chairman, John Hartigan, revealed the Storm were almost 80 per cent over what was initially predicted by the NRL audit.

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