The biggest salary cap rort and possibly the biggest in Australia which has now damaged the NRL code. The Melbourne Storm have been caught cheating. They will lose 3 minor premierships, 2 premierships(2007,2009) as well as having to return 1.1million dollars worth of prize money, and a 500,000 dollar fine on top of that, many predicting the storm wont recover from this. How could a salary cap breach such as this go on for so long un-noticed, with reports suggesting it has been going on for over 5 years, which dates back to Waldrons days of heading the Melbourne storm, Waldron has also resigned from the Melbourne Rebels(The new Super 15 team) almost instantaneously after the storm were found out. I for one think that the Melbourne storm will diminish after this incident, if i was a fan of Melbourne i surely wouldn't be now, and there have been people already dumping their jerseys and paraphernalia outside the Storm office. How will the club function if they don't have any supporters or sponsors? I also predict that a lot of the Melbourne players will leave Melbourne after this because if it were me i wouldn't want to be apart of a club that does things like this, i think we will see alot of the Melbourne top players move to other clubs, or other sporting codes. Now no names have been named on which players have been involved or who has received extra money on the side, but it isnt hard to put 2 and 2 togethor when you have people like Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith, Brett Finish, Brent Kite, Cooper Cronk, the list goes on. The amount of high quality players that are at Melbourne does seem fishy. In my mind, Melbourne storm is done for. Bring in the Central Coast!
Personally i think this is the death of melbourne.
