Bruno Cullen: NRL super sleuth

Actually, Nissan said in evidence ( in a case that had nothing to do with the Broncos or the NRL ) that he believed that Ken Talbot gave money to some Broncos players when they attended functions at premises which he owned, or had an interest in..... You posted the same information yourself....... Nissan did not give any actual evidence that anyone cheated the salary cap, because he was not asked that question, and more importantly he did not offer any evidence to support his comments. For his own reasons , he decided not to assist the NRL inquiry, and that was his right. You cannot draw any inference from anything he said or did, because it was never tested in Court.

Gutsy move calling Bruno a cheat..... Might be best to check your facts. I have known him since his days in Mt Isa and have never heard a bad word said about him.

When you read the newspaper articles regarding this claim, it states that Nissan refused to back up his claims , and Talbot is now deceased, so not sure how they proceeded with an investigation. And Shag on a rock , Cullen was the CEO when the claims were made, however he was not in charge when the payments were allegedly made. Bruno reported the claims to Schubert at the NRL salary cap section. If you really want to chase up old stories, try and find out why no-one was charged over the bets made on Melbourne getting the spoon, when only people at the NRL and the Storm would have been aware of the fact that the points were about to be stripped .

You've nailed it, George. Spot on.

Sleemo, stop wasting yur breath, your common sense means nothing to oikee. i feel he should give his resume to the NRL and take over the jobs of greenberg, smith and grant

Can you name any? Broncos usually develop their own talent. Falou on his way to AFL comes to mind in recent times.

I think it was pretty poor by Bruno Cullen .the nrl paid him to do a job .to then go and air all Cronulla s dirty laundry was pretty low act.

In actual fact the Gallen monies were within the totality of the salary cap 3rd party limits,and not in excess thereof.The reason they were fined ,it was not reported to the NRL as to the list of 3rd party payments.Just plain amateurish. The ABC did not clarify that point,but made it out to be underhanded stealthy whatever.They have done a similar thing with the Flanagan gym account.When the integrity Unit does their checking and finds nothing amiss with that,you belive the ABC will retract.Not on your nelly. The ABC at times needs to make sure they get they facts right, and not do the usual print media stuff of making their own interpretations. The bulk of their news story was not news,but a rehash and stories that have been out in the public arena since July.And we as taxpayers fund these gimps. We know the Corporate govenance was lacking and have known for months,ABC has a scoop (hic).

I think the important thing is that the player agents were saying it and it has been proved with Gallen and the Storm and gasnier..

The rise and rise of the Brisbane Broncos must be upon us, you can hear the squeals coming from all the wannabees (other codes) and even our own are ready to eat us. They can hand out millions, hundreds of millions for other codes, but if the Broncos are giving any love by players, superstars or pollies, all hell breaks loose. Fear, maybe it is fear holding this code back. Well be afraid, be very afraid, cause the Broncos are coming, commin to get ya. haha The Titanic 2 will be built, Jeff the dinosaur will be loved, by somebody, somewhere. hehe

CC I didn't say I believed Waldron, I just thought it was interesting.

Life's been good since Red Sonja got shafted, only got Crumb to go now. Someone needs to stop the payment of the other white elephant for Brizvegas. The paddle pop boys are in distress and going under as well. Hate to be doing the books this year.

was he talking about Sandow?

So you believe the word of a guy(whose integrity s in shambles) who makes a generalisation,which many do when caught ,such as ET (in his extra curricular activities),as being holy writ. And President Assad states all the opposition are terrorists.Yep he would say that. That is not to say ,the odd rort never happens . Again show us that "NO"" salary cap investigations ,have been made since the major blow up. I believe Waldron as much as I believe Red Sonja " there will be no carbon tax whilst I am PM".

Funny the Storm were punished but kennedy's book proves with emails that the big 4 were getting side payments and they knew all about it and didn't have any punishment. I wonder how the players getting the minimum wage felt...BTW Bellamy claimed he knew nothing yet he didn't wonder how he had 9 internationals plus 2 SOO on his books in cold climate city away from the RL action.. On page 145 of the book Sullivan (Storm recruitment manager in 2007) in an email says "Craig is on my back every day about income and keeping players" - it is fanciful to think that the coach was unaware about planning to keep players - name me a club where a coach isn't in discussions about which player has to go and how useful they are and what $$ should be spent on them...

Sleemo I believe you have just hurt someone's feelings , be very careful you might find yourself barred, there are different rules for you me everyone else , rules that don't apply to the deluded one , further more its pointless tryn to educate someone when both the public and private education system failed , so my friend don't waste your time you could put out the rubbish and have accomplished more ,,,

What do you mean robbing juniors? Look at Manly's top 25 and they would have about as many local juniors as any other club. Watmough and King come to mind. Add in all the players who were brought in to Manly through their U20 or reserve grade teams and it would be about the same as any other club. Funny, people wrote Manly off as being too old, too slow, past it back in 2011 and what happened? We won the comp. People wrote Manly off after the Des Hasler debacle at the end of 2011 and what happened? We made the prelims. It's not a free ride for f#$ks sake. It's professional sport. How many of Chelsea's players are local juniors? Barcelona's, North Qld Cowboys', the Roar, the Storm. You seem to keep pushing the notion that the NRL and the salary cap are to blame...well if you get a free market there will only be room for 17 Broncos players to take the field each Friday night. Those juniors who don't make it there because they're told they're not good enough (eg DCE, Ballin) will leave and play elsewhere. How do you not understand this? Funny how people also said after SBW left the game back in 2008, yep five years ago, that the game was going downhill and the only way to survive would be to cut Sydney clubs because the game can't grow in Sydney. Five years on and the game's surviving. Some Sydney clubs may end up relocating but there are bigger issues in the game than the number of Sydney clubs. Manly are a more established club than Brisbane, we've been around for 40 more years, you can't just say they should be tossed because there are other clubs nearby. Tradition and respect obviously mean nothing to you. Finally, if you're so smart and "the messenger" as you claim to be, why are you not working for the NRL? Why are you not a consultant or adviser? If you were good enough or you actually made sense maybe you would be. hehe. hehe hehe hehe. hehe.

Yes, every junior that the Broncos spend one cent on will be signed up to the Broncos, and if other clubs want them, they will have to pay a transfer fee or be on loan to that club for a year. This is the way it works overseas, so in the real world, this is the way it should work here. Tell me, why should the Broncos watch juniors go through our system only to come back and watch them beating us in another team, while our club struggles year after year. Only a fool would put up with that sort of treatment. Well the Broncos are obviously sick of being treated like fools by backward Sydney clubs that cant even keep their heads above water. The more money they throw at them, the more they beg. This is no way to run a professional comp, or do you think it is. ?? Not one Sydney club makes profits, and Manly never have and they have been at the top of the comp for 10 years. We cant keep propping Manly up, as we can all see, the code is going backwards, every paper, even the CEO has admitted this, and after a billion dollar deal. We wont get any more money if we are not showing progress. Good things happen to clubs who want to grow and provide world-class progress, the Broncos are doing this, leading by example, clubs that cant keep up should become feeder clubs.

Waldron's a rat, but he said repeatedly that virtually every other club was doing it. Yet nothing came of it. You don't have to find that interesting, but I do.

Oikee are you saying that every junior in the greater Brisbane/Gold Coast area will be signed up to the Broncos? If not then how is building an elite training centre going to stop rival clubs, eg Manly, from tempting players to sign with their club? The reality is that there are only a certain number of spots on each club's list, when that number has been met then they cannot sign anymore players, particularly with the salary cap in place. What this means is that the Broncos will need to become better at identifying the right talent, rather than let it walk out to other Clubs.