Talk:Melbourne Storm salary cap breach

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This article must comply with wikipedia's policies. In addition, the consensus in this article's "Article for Deletion" discussion strongly suggested that edits to this article should meet the highest standards of verification from independent and reliable sources and of a neutral point-of-view.--Shirt58 (talk) 13:30, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * All of that is true for any Wikipedia article. What's the point of the above post? WWGB (talk) 13:46, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * This article's existence is not justified as long as it is less detailed than the section covering the salary cap breach in the Melbourne Storm article. It's begging for a merge (or delete) tag right now.--Jeff79 (talk) 12:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

More info
Hi, I've cut the following from the NRL salary cap page, figuring it's best to leave the more detailed information here on the main article.

--- On 22 April 2010, the Melbourne Storm were stripped of the 2007 and 2009 premierships, 2006–2008 minor premierships and the 2010 World Club Challenge trophy, fined a record $1.689 million ($1.1 million in NRL prize money which will be equally distributed between the remaining 15 clubs, $89,000 in prize money from the World Club Challenge which will be distributed to the Leeds Rhinos, and the maximum of $500,000 for breaching the salary cap regulations), ordered to cut their payroll by $1.0125 million, deducted all eight premiership points received during the season and barred from receiving premiership points for the remainder of the season after Storm officials revealed that the club had committed serious and systematic breaches of the salary cap regulations between 2006 and 2010 by running a well-organized dual contract and bookkeeping system that concealed a total of $3.78 million in payments made to players outside of the salary cap from the NRL, including $303,000 in 2006, $459,000 in 2007, $957,000 in 2008, $1.021 million in 2009 and $1.04 million in 2010.

The points penalty meant that the club won the 2010 wooden spoon (North Queensland would have finished last if not for the breaches). Legal action by the former directors of the club against the penalties collapsed, and the matter has been referred to ASIC, the Australian Tax Office, the Victorian State Revenue Office, and the Victoria Police. The club's former CEO Brian Waldron and financial officers Matt Hanson, Paul Gregory and Cameron Vale are all facing lifetime suspensions. Players were still eligible for Test and/or State of Origin selection and other individual awards including the Clive Churchill Medallists from 2007 and 2009 will still continue to be recognised. ---

Bongomanrae (talk) 06:46, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

"harshest penalty in the history of sport"
The following sentence, "It was the harshest penalty in the history of sport, anywhere in the world", is completely unsourced.

It is also completely untrue. There are many penalties that have been handed down in college sports in the US (the NCAA 'death penalty') or in Europe where clubs have not only had records stripped but actually banned from competing in following seasons/relegated to lower divisions. Regardless, it is purely personal opinion and has no source/verification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.150.242.24 (talk) 08:33, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
 * You can just remove that sort of stuff, it's likely just a drive-by from some kiddy. It's a common occurrence with league articles, probably most sport-related articles.

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Infobox
@Doctorhawkes I can see some utility in including an infobox, noting @Anderch's objections, but including Rob Moodie as a participant and especially suspect seems borderline defamatory.

Perhaps "participants" would be better served listing blue-linked where applicable:
 * Melbourne Storm (Brian Waldron, Matt Hanson, Cameron Vale)
 * News Corporation Australia (John Hartigan)
 * National Rugby League (David Gallop, Ian Schubert)

As those organisations involved in the scandal on each side, then limiting "suspects" to those individuals sanctioned by the NRL:
 * Brian Waldron
 * Matt Hanson

Just a thought. Storm machine (talk) 07:22, 14 June 2024 (UTC)


 * I agree entirely. Doctorhawkes (talk) 02:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Cheers, have updated (and included the other named "rats in the ranks" by Hartigan) as suspects. I think this is less defamatory this way. Storm machine (talk) 11:15, 15 June 2024 (UTC)