News NRL deals with the Eels

[raptalia]

The NRL has once again shown some balls and dealt with an in house issue in a ruthless but consistent fashion.

• The Parramatta Eels will be stripped of 12 premiership points

• They will be fined $1M with $250,000 suspended if the club complies with the sanctions within the NRL imposed time frame.

• Paramatta will have to cut it's list to fit under the salary cap.

• Key officials at the club will have to show cause as to why their registration is not stripped by the NRL.

• Paramatta will also be stripped of it's Auckland Nines trophy won earlier this year.

Unlike the AFL the NRL has not sidestepped the issue and has had the balls to strip points and trophies just as they did with the Melbourne Storm in 2010.

Apparently Parramatta's cover up goes back to 2013 when they first engineered an elaborate scheme to hide what some players were being paid. Given that situation the Eels have probably escaped lightly.

Hopefully the Sharks of the Cronulla variety are circling to see who the Eels discard.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Gee whiz, what are these NRL clubs thinking with these brown paper bag payments? Pity the crows didn't cop a punishment like this...

 

[Magpiespower]

Gee whiz, what are these NRL clubs thinking with these brown paper bag payments?

"Forget it, Greasy - it's Sydney Town."

All my Parra mates are seething. Not at the NRL. But their incompetent board.

They've been a shitshow for years...