Cronulla Sharks being investigated over possible salary cap breaches
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cochise
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@Tcat said:
Yes but they played with an advantage, why should players on other teams be disadvantaged by playing against a team that is cheating?
Players were robbed of that Premiership because the Sharks were over the cap.
# Storm CEO hits back at Paul Gallen over salary cap comments
By Sacha Mirzabegian 3 hours ago
Melbourne Storm CEO Dave Donaghy has hit back at Cronulla captain Paul Gallen after the NRL veteran was involved in a war of words with Storm skipper Cameron Smith over punishments dished out to both clubs over salary cap breaches.
Smith said the Storm should have their premierships reinstated after the club was stripped of two titles in 2010 for rorting the salary cap considering the Sharks were only fined for cap breaches committed since 2013\. [Gallen hit back at Smith's claims](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/paul-gallen-cronulla-sharks-premiership-salary-cap-issues/b14bbf17-1c21-4f9e-8f24-b0524e2e76db) on Sports Sunday:
“I will say this to Cam: be very careful what you wish for. We went in and self-reported a $50,000 discrepancy and the CEO thought that was all it was,” Gallen said.
“It turned out to be a $700,000 discrepancy. Maybe you don’t want the NRL going back and searching those books particularly when they were found to be $3.7 million over the salary cap over five years.
Three of those years they were $1 million over the salary cap, compared to the Sharks. We were $750,000 in illegal third-party payments that were intended to be paid. The NRL found that they were not even all paid.”
Gallen was responding to claims made by Smith at the NRL's season launch, with the Storm star calling out alleged double standards in relation to the punishments handed out to both teams he believes were guilty of the same crime.
Donaghy echoed Smith's sentiments at a recent Storm fan day, telling the club's supporters that there's a huge difference between the punishments handed out back in 2010 as opposed to the recent sanctions imposed on the Sharks.
“It’s not a case that Melbourne Storm feels like it was not doing the wrong thing at the time, it’s a case of the penalties that were dished out in 2010 were far different or much different to what has been handed out most recently,” Donaghy said at the club’s fan day.
By Sacha Mirzabegian 3 hours ago
Melbourne Storm CEO Dave Donaghy has hit back at Cronulla captain Paul Gallen after the NRL veteran was involved in a war of words with Storm skipper Cameron Smith over punishments dished out to both clubs over salary cap breaches.
Smith said the Storm should have their premierships reinstated after the club was stripped of two titles in 2010 for rorting the salary cap considering the Sharks were only fined for cap breaches committed since 2013\. [Gallen hit back at Smith's claims](https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/paul-gallen-cronulla-sharks-premiership-salary-cap-issues/b14bbf17-1c21-4f9e-8f24-b0524e2e76db) on Sports Sunday:
“I will say this to Cam: be very careful what you wish for. We went in and self-reported a $50,000 discrepancy and the CEO thought that was all it was,” Gallen said.
“It turned out to be a $700,000 discrepancy. Maybe you don’t want the NRL going back and searching those books particularly when they were found to be $3.7 million over the salary cap over five years.
Three of those years they were $1 million over the salary cap, compared to the Sharks. We were $750,000 in illegal third-party payments that were intended to be paid. The NRL found that they were not even all paid.”
Gallen was responding to claims made by Smith at the NRL's season launch, with the Storm star calling out alleged double standards in relation to the punishments handed out to both teams he believes were guilty of the same crime.
Donaghy echoed Smith's sentiments at a recent Storm fan day, telling the club's supporters that there's a huge difference between the punishments handed out back in 2010 as opposed to the recent sanctions imposed on the Sharks.
“It’s not a case that Melbourne Storm feels like it was not doing the wrong thing at the time, it’s a case of the penalties that were dished out in 2010 were far different or much different to what has been handed out most recently,” Donaghy said at the club’s fan day.
and again the sharks get away with not have to shed a player, how they were allowed to sign james while knowing they were over the cap, is crazy. but been allowed to offload him to became cap compliant is madness. some at sharks must have photos of greenberg doing some thing wrong.
