Are you prepared to believe for even a moment that other NRL clubs have not been rorting the salary cap? Of course you're not! But if the penalty imposed on Melbourne Storm is any indication, NRL directors are confident that salary cap cheating is confined to the Storm. The massive penalty, said to be the biggest ever in Australian sport, is unlikely to render the Storm club insolvent, given that it is not only privately owned but that it is owned by the deep-pocketed News Ltd. The NRL, which appears to have been celebrating the harshness of the penalty, is bound to impose the same fines and disqualification on any other club found to be cheating the salary cap, and my point is that this penalty may well spell the end for many clubs. Indeed, with three or four or five teams playing in the competition without accruing points, and going broke fast as they do it, the NRL itself could be in strife. The competition would be a farce. http://www.theherald.com.au/blogs/jeff-corbett/nrl-in-peril/1814127.aspx
