Quite a history of salary cap breaches

[dr nick]

The storm have by far and away the worst history with regards salary cap breaches.

2000: Melbourne fined $24,500 for salary cap breaches
2001: Melbourne fined $90,000 for salary cap breaches
2002: Melbourne fined $67,000 for salary cap breaches
2003: Melbourne fined $131,000 for salary cap breaches
2004: Melbourne fined $120,000 for salary cap breaches
2008: Melbourne fined $14,000 for salary cap breaches
2010: Melbourne fined $500,000 and stripped of 2 premierships and 3 minor premierships for salary cap breaches.

Interesting that the Waldron years were actually the cleanest years, with only 1 very minor breach incurring a $14,000 fine.

 

[MightyFighting]

Nice puff piece in The Age this morning claiming that the Storm's CEO is such a nice guy that he couldn't possibly have known about the salary cap breaches:

http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-leag...-inkling-of-clubs-sickness-20100423-tj9e.html

Shocked doctor had no inkling of club's sickness

MELBOURNE Storm chairman Rob Moodie has been in hot spots before. Eastern Sudan, 1985, with a Medecins Sans Frontieres relief team caring for 40,000 refugees. Baghdad, 1991, in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, as typhoid and cholera brewed in the rubble. The 1990s, on the front line of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, co-ordinating the United Nations response across 150 countries. The 2000s, tackling peddlers of tobacco, booze, junk food and other lifestyle toxins for the public health agency VicHealth.

If St. Robert didn't know, then he must be pretty bloody incompotent.

 

[dr nick]

If St. Robert didn't know, then he must be pretty bloody incompotent.

absolutely. He's standing there saying his job was a job of ratification, simply rubber stamping everything without looking about what he was authorising.

Dead set, they have to accept his resignation immediately. The stink will never leave them with some of these executives remaining.

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

absolutely. He's standing there saying his job was a job of ratification, simply rubber stamping everything without looking about what he was authorising.

That IS his job. That's what a chairman does; he's meant to be an intermediary between the owners and the administration. The CEO is the one who actually runs club, and the board reports to the chairman. He can't help it if he was lied to. Even the PLAYERS were lied to.

 

[dr nick]

He authorised these rorts. He's hiding behind the excuse he didn't look at what he was signing which is ridiculous.

 

[Dimenhydrinate]

He authorised these rorts. He's hiding behind the excuse he didn't look at what he was signing which is ridiculous.

He almost certainly didn't. Do you think that News sifted through everything that the Storm admin did? Nobody has time for that.

 

[Cleavy]

3rd party agreements + backended player contracts = nightmare

 

[dr nick]

He almost certainly didn't. Do you think that News sifted through everything that the Storm admin did? Nobody has time for that.

Ahh the old Peter Garrett excuse.

 

[Cousin Jed]

Highly unlikely that the Chairman would know.