If you havent seen the news yet id be watching it now.

Melbourne Storm are goooone this year and are being stripped of two premierships and three minor premierships.

Does that mean Paramatte Won Last Year?


Hope so

Except just heard they cant on the news,

No, nobody gets the premeirship.

Given that it appears that a number of players had dual contracts, you would think some of them will be in trouble, or at the very least their managers.

The attitude of the Storm players for the rest of the year should be interesting. I can't imagine they'll care all that much.

Q What has 26 legs and cant climb a ladder????

A Melbourne Storm

I bet David Gallop is seeing far more each year of his contract than any of the players.
Time to get rid of the salary cap for players, and instead apply it to the officials.

JOhn Ribo is the top chrim finally got caught

Havent been interested since Bob Millward sold out to the Dragons. Screw rugby league, just a bunch of drunken depraved thugs anyway.

the Government blu more of OUR money then that.
the banks blu more of Our money then That.
bloody telstar gave away about 12000,000 to some wanker .they didnt get it back.

footy is just a game

Divine Brown blew a Huge Grant also!

Kick the Storm out and replace them with the Central Coast Bears. Melbourne can have the Rebels rugby union team instead.

Hardly 'League's Darkest Hour' (headline in today's Tele). The greed and corruption of Superleague, and the crime of kicking out foundation club South Sydney in 2000, was far worse (well done, News Ltd - I'm enjoying seeing you squirm this time). No one will miss the Storm. Who misses the Western Reds, the Adelaide Rams, the Hunter Mariners, the Sth Queensland Crushers or any other fabricated News Ltd 'franchises'?

Sort of disagree there Phil

news ltd NEEDS to get a solid national base - otherwise AFL "WILL" take over

Reckon they were wrong in backing off those teams you mention

The next Underbelly...................

Underbellamy 4: The tale of 2 books.

Go the Doggies its about time it happened we werent the only ones

So whats the difference between the Storm and a triangle?


A triangle has 3 points

fark the players were just doing the Aussie thing and tyring to make a bit of cash on the side.
Farked if you would want the NRL to run your business , as they seem to be doing their best to go bust.
Its not like the storm or the doggys are Allan Bond or christopher skase.
footy is just a game

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Originally posted by ryana89 So whats the difference between the Storm and a triangle? A triangle has 3 points

For Sale - 1 Melbourne storm uniform, jersey, shorts, socks, no cap hahaha

Cameron Smith says "how are we supposed to turn up each week, with no points, and play 80 minutes, and still end up with no points? And go all season like that?"

Craig Bellamy says "Mate I dunno, I'll go ring Ricky Stewart and ask how he does it."

Agree about Illawarra, they deserve their own team more than Melbourne does. Sadly, footy's no longer a game, it's a 'product'. Clubs are no longer clubs, they're franchises. And they've forgotten how to do scrums.

have been following this in the news & the work conversations and just a couple of things.

1. Apparently just before the story broke 3 large bets were placed with the TAB for Melbourne to get the wooden spoon... so somebody knew something was going on ..

2. seems a bit harsh to strip them of the championships, what about all the support people like the trainers, the runners and all the little people that contributed.... its just a huge slap in the face for them too and that's not right.

if you want to punish them, then for the next 5 or 10 years only let them pick new drafts from local Melbourne clubs then see how they go with out all the big guns to win for them.

the biggest thing about is that, every team in every code pays for their stars one way or another... Melbourne just weren't good enough at hiding it.

that's my two cents, feel free to disagree

1. Yes there was a bit on insider trading going on! Bets on the wooden spoon were soon frozen and I believe they have the names of those who placed those bets, and are investigating.

2. Sorry but stripping them of their ill-gotten premierships was the only right thing to do. They cheated - end of story.

3. There is no AFL-style draft system in rugby league. Maybe there should be ! I would be very surprised if they are still around in 5-10 years; they can't survive without Murdoch pumping $10 million a year into them. And how is that fair on the other clubs that have to survive without being owned by News Ltd?