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Worth noting the NRL grant covers 100% of the (legal) salary cap - all the rest is the cost of running the club. Listeneing to SEn last year they were talking to the storm rep who said it takes 14-16 million to run a club like the storm. Yep its a lot of money but if you addit up (NRL = 4, membershi...

Where is it on?

I like this banner

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/g ... 39?page=18

i am wathing the games tonight - not with the usual enthusiasm but by next week it will be back - i guess with the negative comments from the commentators about the storm its hard but its the game i like and i dont care what they say

Crap - players take less money to stay with a club through loyalty all the time how do you value a players worth  - for example a front rower will do the hardest work, take the most pain and put the most work in  but will never, ever be paid the same as Billy, Cam or Gi - so please dont gimme that c...

Actually the investigation is in relation to 11 players.

C9 must really have had to think hard to come up with those three names.....

From the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 640595.stm

That fact Crocker was going to so Clint Newton could stay and Coops already has would suggest the opposite. Ok some of the lower paid players wont - and probably cannot afford to but the high paid ones who have been at this club since they were 15-16 probably would as they have developed as a group....

Foxsports said a phone link was held and the NRL board didnt reverse the decision and supported it

From what Gallop said he could not envisage them taking pay cuts THIS YEAR to allow them to pay. i dont recall saying about anything else so far. Also poses the question, that as clubs sign stars for 2-5 years who would have the $ to sigh one of ours as they would not have budgetted for them coming ...

in a good way?

Umm..given Coops took a pay cut to, in his belief, allow others to stay, and todays comment that they would take cuts to stay together, i would have though a couple of years ago they would have done exactly the same ...we didnt have "more" players than anyone else and we didnt really buy a...

If I didnt have a mortgage i would be happy to buy a Jayco caravan 

I thought they said it was someone who moved to Sydney?

If it was him i will be binning my North membership next year

the ex recruitment guy is the only one i know to have moved to Sydney but I dont have enough contact with the non players to know of anyone else, maybe their are heaps