Finally,Gallop throws the storm a freakin bone

[The Eagle]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -ugzr.html

Special salary cap provisions are being considered to ensure the $1.3 million of playing talent Melbourne must shed next season stays in the NRL by joining rival clubs.

With up to 12 of their top-25 man squad believed to be on $100,000 or less, the Storm face a massive battle to get their 2011 wages bill below the $4.1 million salary cap and field a quality team.

But the Herald understands the NRL is considering allowing the Storm to include severance payments to players that the club is forced to release in this year's salary cap and not future seasons.

Such a decision would have the potential to blow out the size of Melbourne's 2010 salary cap breach to up to $2 million but the penalty imposed on the club would not change.

''There are ongoing discussions between the NRL and the Storm management and we certainly realise that there may need to be some flexibility in terms of how termination payments are dealt with,'' NRL chief executive David Gallop said. ''That has been done before.''

It is understood that NRL salary cap auditor Ian Schubert will work with the Storm's owners, News Ltd, and other clubs to ensure the players aren't forced to rugby union.

The problem at the Storm is compounded by the fact that other clubs do not have room under their salary caps to take over the contracts of Melbourne's four Australian Test stars, Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith and Cooper Cronk.

Unless there is some dispensation given to the club to offer players termination payments without affecting their salary cap in future years, it is feared that the likes of Inglis, Slater, Smith and Cronk could be lost to rugby union.

While all NRL clubs would be interested in those players or other Melbourne stars such as Adam Blair, Ryan Hoffman, Jeff Lima and Aiden Tolman, only Brisbane, Newcastle, the Warriors, Canberra and possibly the Bulldogs (if Ben Hannant leaves) are thought to have room under their salary cap to make a reasonable offer.

Under NRL salary cap rules, any top-up paid by the Storm to meet the difference between what another club can afford to pay a player and the amount of his contract before he was released would be included in Melbourne's salary cap for that season.

For example, if the Knights signed Inglis for $400,000 next season and Melbourne paid the other $200,000 of his existing $600,000 contract then $200,000 would be included in the Storm's 2011 salary cap.

Because of the high number of players at Melbourne on low incomes and the figure of up to $1.3million the club is now projected to exceed the salary cap by next season, the Storm could be forced to release almost all of their stars and replace them with rookies or journeymen.

The situation would continue to affect the Storm until all of the current contracts expire, making it easier for the club if the players left to join the Melbourne Rebels or play rugby union elsewhere.

The exchange rate and changes to British tax laws have made Super League less appealing and the Storm players have indicated they do not want to move overseas, meaning they would almost certainly be lost to the code if they weren't playing in the NRL.

But if the Storm were allowed to include the amount of any severance deals negotiated before October 31 in this year's salary cap, the players would become more appealing to other clubs and Melbourne could begin rebuilding from next season

[steaming stormer]

where did the 1.3 come from for next year??????

[singlemalt]

where did the 1.3 come from for next year??????

From the existing legal (and illegal) player contracts - many of them probably had an increase in years 2 and 3 as an incentive to have players stay and not exercise 'get out' clauses.

[The Eagle]

where did the 1.3 come from for next year??????

Contract payouts such as Easts are doing for N QLD to be rid of Mason,N QLD pays a certain amount and Easts is stuck with the rest which is counted in salary cap
for Easts and N QLD,in effect,both clubs have W Mason in salary cap payments

[Bourbon Rat]

Finally,Gallop throws the storm a freakin bone

WRONG TITLE

Has nothing to do with helping Melbourne - The wanker is starting to see his spot in history reading
' David Gallop - The man responsible for the largest number of Star Rugby league players being lost to other codes' 

He's also signaled that he,(and the 'other 15') don't want Storm 'under the cap' They want 3 or 4 'specific players' removed from the team.
But then................We already knew this didn't we 

[TC]

Special salary cap provisions are being considered to ensure the $1.3 million of playing talent Melbourne must shed next season stays in the NRL by joining rival clubs.

How is that throwing us a bone? It's more like smacking us over the head with it.

What he's actually saying is:
"We're going to kick your club as hard as we can, and leave you a mere shell - a rabble of second-tier players who will be uncompetitive for the next 5 years.
We're going to rip away your home grown talent and make you pay for the privelege. We're going to force your best players to play against you, and we're going to expect you to be greatful.

[Tempest]

Ratty and TC are right - it's not a bone, it's the shaft.

Gallop wants the Storm's best playing for other clubs. That way they can still be NRL poster boys and give a shine to whatever club he's shoehorned them into (regardless, of course, that the only thing those clubs did to create those players was loot a corpse).

The Storm players didn't fall in line like good little boys, so he punished them some more. They still won't, so he's trying this.

[The Eagle]

Still,Fire all but Slater,Cronk,Smith,Inglis

Supercoach picks up some so called duds and well,thats normally what he does anyway
thats like $1.8mil of the cap gone,sign 21 rejects and kids for $55k a peice,with those 4
still in the picture its doable and still top 4 material

Use some imagination!

[TC]

Still,Fire all but Slater,Cronk,Smith,Inglis

Supercoach picks up some so called duds and well,thats normally what he does anyway
thats like $1.8mil of the cap gone,sign 21 rejects and kids for $55k a peice,with those 4
still in the picture its doable and still top 4 material

Use some imagination!

Not the point.

The point is that Gallop wants to strip the Storm bare, and make Storm pay to keep our home grown stars in the NRL AT OTHER CLUBS.
He will then claim that the system is working because they "weren't lost to Rugby League".

[Storm Spirit]

HANG ON JUST A *LIMA LIMA LIMA DUCK*ing MOMENT....

On 27th April...Daily Telegraph wrote this.........

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 5858550782

Now 12 days later..."someone" is saying that Storm need to shed 3 - 4 players.....shed $1.3 million...

Matt Hanson either worked feverishly to reduce the cap overspend to $230k in 2011 or he didn't....WHICH ONE IS IT ?

I think that we all need to take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath and count to 10.

I fully understand that if we had to come under the cap in 2010 then Storm would be dead in the water.

2011 and beyond theoretically (at least in what's been reported)....might be very different.