Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that just pointing out that cheating the cap doesn't give you a flag and that Bellamy and the players still worked very hard to win it.Doesn't make it ok
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Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that just pointing out that cheating the cap doesn't give you a flag and that Bellamy and the players still worked very hard to win it.Doesn't make it ok
Yeah wouldn't pay for it.
That has been everybody's game plan fighting mayweather, hasn't worked yet.
Mayweather would not have taken this fight if he didn't believe everything was firmly in his favour
Yeah I would go Bellamy over Bennett or Lethal personally because he has developed his own talent where as the Broncos just brought players and Lethal was a great coach but couldn't rebuild either of the teams he coached. Apart from 2010 Bellamy has not missed finals and even in 2010 he won enough games to finish about 4th or 5th and that was with a team playing for no points.
Another one to throw up along these lines could be Michael Voss v Cameron Smith
Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that just pointing out that cheating the cap doesn't give you a flag and that Bellamy and the players still worked very hard to win it.
in 07 we still win easily IMO. Only lost 3 games for the year, the most dominant NRL season I can recall in recent timesno doubt but if you're looking at the record you pretty much have to dismiss those years. If they had 1-2 million less per year at the very least one of Smith, slater, inglis, folau and probably a couple as well as a few others. Now that's not saying he wouldn't have done it as I think he's an excellent coach, but no doubt it would have been much harder.
impossible to say really. You take Inglis, King and a Hoffman, Geyer or White out of that side for the whole season and GF and it gets a bit murky. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Perhaps they don't lure a player or two or re-sign a player or two because there's not quite the promise of a premiership on the table, maybe it doesn't matter. The knock on affect of not having one or two guns could have been massive to the makeup of the whole squad. Too many whatifs to say really.in 07 we still win easily IMO. Only lost 3 games for the year, the most dominant NRL season I can recall in recent times
You also gotta remember we don't know how many clubs were over the cap. Their was a lot of talk around at the time that the paper shereders were working overtime the day Storm got caught and whilst it doesn't make it right everyone was doing it and Storm is just the club that got caught, yes I know nothing was proven but there was plenty of speculation.impossible to say really. You take Inglis, King and a Hoffman, Geyer or White out of that side for the whole season and GF and it gets a bit murky. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. Perhaps they don't lure a player or two or re-sign a player or two because there's not quite the promise of a premiership on the table, maybe it doesn't matter. The knock on affect of not having one or two guns could have been massive to the makeup of the whole squad. Too many whatifs to say really.
I know for a fact that multiple Broncos players received huge $$$ not included in the salary cap up until mid to late 2010 in the guise of services rendered that never were.You also gotta remember we don't know how many clubs were over the cap. Their was a lot of talk around at the time that the paper shereders were working overtime the day Storm got caught and whilst it doesn't make it right everyone was doing it and Storm is just the club that got caught, yes I know nothing was proven but there was plenty of speculation.
You also gotta remember we don't know how many clubs were over the cap. Their was a lot of talk around at the time that the paper shereders were working overtime the day Storm got caught and whilst it doesn't make it right everyone was doing it and Storm is just the club that got caught, yes I know nothing was proven but there was plenty of speculation.
No you don't, much like Jobe and his brownlow you cheated so nothing counts.in 07 we still win easily IMO. Only lost 3 games for the year, the most dominant NRL season I can recall in recent times
Speculation means nothing though. Melbourne were the ones who were caught. The rules were there to be enforced. Melbourne's executives deliberately and knowingly broke those rules to give their team a genuine and unfair advantage over everyone else. And any conspiracy theory regarding other clubs are baseless. It isn't as though Melbourne is the only club to have ever been caught breaching the cap so they were hardly singled out. Before the Storm, Canterbury were busted and after the Storm, Parramatta were caught. They also catch a bunch of lower level breaches every year. It is also worth noting that the owners of the Storm, News Limited, were also the 50% owners of the NRL at the time. If any club was likely to have a blind eye turned to dodgy dealings, it was Melbourne.
The salary cap in 2009 was $4.1M. Melbourne were proven (and admitted) to have spent $1M over that amount in that year. That's an advantage of significant proportions. It is a quarter of the cap. The players whose contracts were illegally inflated included Cameron Smith, Billy Slater and Greg Inglis - hardly journeymen of the comp. One of those players' contracts was registered to a value of $400,000, despite the Storm agreeing to pay them $950,000.
The sad part of all this is that perhaps the Storm were good enough to win the comp in 2007 and 2009 without the salary cap breaches. Perhaps Bellamy deserves to be a 3 time premiership coach. But the fact that the club (via its most senior executives) cheated to give the club an illegal and substantial advantage means that the players and coach were denied the right to be recognised as such.
None of this changes Bellamy as a coach. But it does change his record.
difference is the players weren't onvolved in the cheat only the admin were.No you don't, much like Jobe and his brownlow you cheated so nothing counts.
difference is the players weren't onvolved in the cheat only the admin were.
yes but if you are told its part of your package then why would you be suss.I still find that difficult to believe, and doubly so for the agents involved. I accept nothing was proven but getting a bunch of random stuff paid to you (gift cards, home renos, boats, cars for partners) in lieu of salary would surely raise an eyebrow at a minimum which is the same standard people hold the Essendon players to.
without knowing was was included in the players contracts we can't make that assumptionBecause getting paid via a gift card is suss.
Were they? The primary difference is that Parramatta were allowed to accrue points once they got under the salary cap. But they lost all points in that year and were stripped of whatever titles they had won during the breach period. Fundamentally, the punishments were the same - it is just that Melbourne had more to lose.Look a lot of what you say is correct but lets remember that Parra were let off far more lightly then us.
Parra were allowed to play for points, they also had no titles to be stripped.Were they? The primary difference is that Parramatta were allowed to accrue points once they got under the salary cap. But they lost all points in that year and were stripped of whatever titles they had won during the breach period. Fundamentally, the punishments were the same - it is just that Melbourne had more to lose.
They were allowed to play for points once they had their salary cap under the limit. It was conditional. They got their salary cap under control by the end of round 9 and so were allowed to play for points after that. Melbourne weren't given that option admittedly but I'd argue that they would have struggled to reduce their wages by over $1M during the course of that season anyway so it is probably a moot point.Parra were allowed to play for points, they also had no titles to be stripped.
Kyrie Irving's next cross-over will come against the Cavaliers.
Cleveland's All-Star guard, who asked owner Dan Gilbert to trade him earlier this summer, was dealt Tuesday night to the Boston Celtics in exchange for star Isaiah Thomas, forward Jae Crowder and [Brooklyn's] 2018 first-round draft pick, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.
Well that's a hell of a trade...
http://www.nba.com/article/2017/08/...s-discussing-isaiah-thomas-kyrie-irving-trade