22nd April 2010, 03:37 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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Melbourne have just been stripped of 3 Minor Premierships, and their 2 Grand Final wins, afters they were found to have been in major breach of the salary cap of the past few years.
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NRL chief executive David Gallop announced they would also not be allowed to accrue any premiership points in the 2010 season. Gallop said the Storm had been found to have rorted the salary cap by at least $1.7 million over five years.
"They had a long term system of effectively two sets of books and the elaborate lengths they have gone through to cover this up has been extraordinary,'' said Gallop.
While Melbourne lost their titles from the 2007 and 2009 seasons Gallop said neither losing grand finalists Manly or Parramatta would assume those titles.
The Storm were also stripped of three minor premierships.
"The club has furthermore been fined $500,000 and will be forced to return $1.1 million in prizemoney with the prizemoney being distributed evenly among the other 15 clubs,'' said Gallop.
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This after i read their was a slight betting plunge on them to get the wooden spoon this year, paying $251. I wouldnt have minded a lazy $100 on that one!
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