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The Melbourne Storm have been stripped of two premierships, three minor premierships and fined a total of $1.6 million for massive breaches of the NRL's salary cap rules.







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Massive news...



Terrible shame for the game but Melbourne have been docked 2 premierships over salary cap breaches.



Waldron likely to face jail time rather than running a union side.

They fully deserve it,cheating salary cap scum they're.

This should get some attention for the game in AFL land...









Any publicity and all that.



Shame for the game though.

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Sorry missed the earlier thread when I first posted this...

I bet the new Melbourne union team are fooking skipping. Although isnt their chief exec the former Melbourne one?

Not good news for the storm and rugby league.

Got to echo the words of Sheldon.



They say there is no such thing as bad press, but in this instance that statement is definately wrong.

So does that mean if they win next week they won't get the ponts?

As I understand it, they will finish on 0 points for 2010, irrespective of results.



Not exactly a boon for Storm fans to fork out for the remainder of the year; especially at a new ground.

There'll be a massive offloading of playing staff to get below the cap for next year, makes you wonder how many other clubs both in oz and over here are employing similar tactics and may be looking over their shoulder.