Bulldogs in hot water following $100k salary cap breach

I have better things to do than troll whatever the hell that is.

I am positive you are trolling. Write an article about how the salary cap has no effect on the eveness of the NRL and see how you go. It is pretty simple really, Melbourne had and have a solid core of good players and a great coach and coaching staff and Craig Bellamy is able to extract high performance from them, hence his teams are stronger. Look at how many players have left the Storm over the years, a lot wouldnt have left if salary cap pressures didnt force them out. Similiar to the Cowboys, they had a lot of decent players playing for relative unders, Coote, Granville and Paul Green extracted the mostt our of them. Now after a few successful seasons they couldnt retain Tamou and they couldnt retain a potential superstar in Ponga due to salary cap pressures and I would be surprised to see the Cowboys win a premiership in the next 3 years aside from some shrewd recruiting over tge next year causing a stunning 2018 comeback.

prove to me that the salary cap even things out, there is no evidence of that, Storm had to take a pay cut after 2010 and still won in 2012. Cap has nothing to do with it Cowboys did not bring in a big money player in 2015. he was already there

BJ - I'd love to respond but I have no idea what point you're trying to make. If you're seriously trying to suggest that the salary cap doesn't even up the competition and prevent a couple of teams from dominating then you're an even bigger ar$e clown than I had given you credit for.

I wonder if this could be sorted by moving that part timer along.

So BJ, you are of the firm beleif a salary cap has no effect on how a team will perform?

Barry how can you say that the salary cap is the reasons why no one has gone back to back since 93 so in 02,03,04, the roosters won one only due to salary cap, 06,07,08,09 storm only won two salry cap and they brached it so there goes that thoery, the storm cheated and still only won two. stop leading with your chin barry.

Thanks The Barry. Saved me some time explaining it. DCE's salary has no impact on the club's finances On a side note I reckon the Raiders would be the real winners if the salary cap was removed.

Thankfully payments to ex coaches haven't been included in the cap...

No. DCE has nothing to do with why Manly are broke. DCE's payments whether he's on two bob or two million are covered by the grant from the NRL. That's the whole point of everything that has been going on with John Grant and the clubs over the past fortnight.

Don't lead with your chin all the time BJ. The salary cap is a big reason why we haven't had repeat premiers since the Broncos and why we've had 12 different premiers out of the last 14 and why all but two teams have competed in grand finals in that time. How well Melbourne played in one game is completely irrelevant.

Manly rich? not for about 20 years. Melbourne are hardly a money spinner either

Yep, Broncos usually run a profit. Souths did a couple of years ago, but broke even last year. Roosters seem to always have a bit of cash to spend as do Melbourne - these would be the clubs we'd see constantly at the top. Maybe Bulldogs as well. The idea that Manly are one of the big 4 is absurd.

I think the Tigers were over the cap because they were paying blokes to play for other clubs! A winning strategy if ever I've seen one...

No they are still limited by the salary cap. TPA give them an advantage but they are still limited. For Example. A lot of Manlys salary cap is used on DCE, so they have to fill the rest of their squad with Bargin buys an hopefully get some on unders. And I am not sure what Melbourne and Brisbane prove at all, they were constrained by this thing called a salary cap.

what a waste of money

Vince, they have been doing that for years, why do you think they won all those titles in the 90's??? I dont think that even if Brisbane had the ability to buy whomever they want that it would lead to premierships as they proved in 2015 and Melbourne prove this year. They still have to be unble to play footy, teams have blown thier lives savings on players and its has backfired big time. Manly for example

Parramatta gave them pointers. Also Tigers were fined every season from 2006-2009 and yet didn't make the finals once.....

BigJ, you do understand that if there were no Salary Cap a team like the Broncos would be able to buy all the players they wanted to? But because of the Salary Cap they are limited to buying players that fit under the cap. It is nothing to do with how well they have been playing.

But then for relativeness sake, an up and coming gets drafted to the Melbourne storm. He dont like and takes up his offer from the QLD reds for similiar dough plays there for a couple of years and comes back to his preferred club with a massive multimillion dollar deal waiting for him.