Rugby League Comment Archive

  • Storm Directors Fight Penalties

    Storm Directors Fight Penalties

    Independent directors of the Melbourne Storm team have decided to take legal action in regards to the stripping of the Premiership titles for cheating. The directors claim that the fines, stripping of points and titles were all handed down in breach of the NRL rules and are therefore not valid. This moves comes as a [...]

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  • KooGa Remains Silent on Melbourne Storm Sponsorship

    KooGa Remains Silent on Melbourne Storm Sponsorship

    There have still not been any developments from KooGa regarding their continued sponsorship of embattled rugby league club, the Melbourne Storm. KooGa provide the rugby jerseys and other sportswear to the Storm as well as fellow NRL club the Newcastle Knights. While KooGa apparently still stand strong, a host of sponsors pulled their sponsorship of [...]

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  • Warriors Sign Paramatta Stars

    Warriors Sign Paramatta Stars

    Announced late yesterday, the Warriors have signed Paramatta and International Rugby League stars Feleti Meteo and Krisnan Inu, both on 3 year deals commencing in the 2011 season. Meteo is the current Tongan team captain and is comfortable playing in the second row, the loose forwards or in standoff. While Inu is capable of playing [...]

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  • Anzac Test 2010

    Anzac Test 2010

    We are but one day away from the annual Anzac Test between New Zealand and Australia. This year the build up to the test has been overshadowed by the fallout from the Melbourne Storm Salary cap drama. What we can all be sure of mind you is that the Kiwi’s have more than  a monumental challenge ahead of [...]

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  • The Future of Rugby League?

    The Future of Rugby League?

      Now that the Storm salary cap rort is starting to lose traction in the media, the next question people are asking appears to be, where to for the NRl now? Darren Lockyer has come out and spoken about his fear of top player’s being poached by rival sports teams. There is still two and a [...]

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  • Storm Destroy Warriors… Does Anyone Care?

    Storm Destroy Warriors… Does Anyone Care?

    The Storm came out in force last night and showed they were still the team to beat in the 2010 NRL competition. In front of a crowd of 24,000 fans, the Storm played some of the best rugby league seen in a long time. A 40 – 06 drubbing left the Warriors wondering what had [...]

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  • Storm Cheating – Players Named!

    Storm Cheating – Players Named!

    The information that everyone has been waiting for has now been released, the names of the players that are involved in the Salary Cap Cheating Scandal. Those players are Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk, Cameron Smith, Brett White, Dallas Johnson, Steve Turner and Michael Crocker. Greg Inglis is still under investigation, but has so far not [...]

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  • Sharks Slay Knights

    Sharks Slay Knights

    Some of you may find it hard to believe, but there has been news and results not relating to the Melbourne Storm in the last few days. While more and more information regarding what is happing with the cheats from Melbourne come out, the results from the weekend are being overshadowed. One of the bigger [...]

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  • Melbourne Storm Caught Cheating

    Melbourne Storm Caught Cheating

    In a shocking press conference today, it was announced that top performing team the Melbourne Storm have been found to have breached the NRL Salary Cap over the past five seasons. An investigation into the breach has apparently uncovered an intricate web of deception aimed at hiding payments to players, that are not disclosed to [...]

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  • NRL Injuries Take Their Toll

    NRL Injuries Take Their Toll

    As the next round of the NRL approaches, I find myself scanning the headlines of media to see which players wont be playing in the next match instead of the players that are. Big names such as Greg Inglis, Manu Vatuvei, Scott Princy, Mat Rogers, Nathan Fein and Justin Hodges are all missing from starting line [...]

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