From today’s editorial in the Courier Mail:

<<Cancers must be attacked swiftly and aggressively, otherwise they will most likely kill the host body. As such, David Gallop and the National Rugby League deserve the fullest praise for the quick and hardline response to the malignant tumour that was eating away at the code in the form of Melbourne Storm’s shameful rorting of the salary cap system.>>

I profoundly disagree!

The reaction has been enormously over the top. Gallop has virtually taken the Storm outside, put it up against the wall and had a firing squad despatch it.

Not only have the small number of guilty people been clobbered, but many innocent people as well.

It would have been pertinent for the NRL to determine exactly who is responsible or complicit first and then deal with those people directly, thus avoiding the easily avoidable enormous 'collateral damage’ that they have induced.

They also need to assess just how widespread deliberate salary cap rorting is before they single out one club and deal out punishment that is truly beyond the dizziest limit of harshness.

The NRL also needs to take some responsibility for insufficient auditing and control of the culture of salary cap breaches that many clubs have become embroiled in to some extent over the years and which we keep hearing about in the news all the time.

Sure, we’ve got to attack a cancer decisively. But it is often pertinent to be a little bit gentle about it rather than killing the whole cancerous organ or amputating a limb.

I couldn’t give a hoot about rugby league, but I care greatly about the rule of law in our society. The NRL’s action taken against the Melbourne Storm has greatly offended my sensibilities.

What do others think?

NRL is my game, Gallop is not my man.
Ludwig is quite right.
In not letting Melbourne keep this years point he has killed the team.
Bar, for life, any one who knew players too.
but if he ONLY would review his actions, get $700.000 back from this years players, but let them compete surely that is justice.
This is not, no crowing please from other codes, it is happening there too.
But far worse things happen in my game, refs seem to be free to ,,,well commit crimes or be very silly, I think cash may change hands as a result of betting on my game.
Linemen? asleep on their feet.
Yet wronged coaches are fined for what? telling it like it is!
I by the way am not a fan of the storm, in fact dislike them because of those tackles and bad blood between my team, Saints, if you insist Dragons.
But this treatment fines honest fans, players, officials, and My game.
Trot of Gallop please add my name to the growing list offended by you.

What Belly said, but in English.

They cheated. They paid more for players than anyone else which gave them an unfair advantage over any other team.

Stiff bikkies.

Within our democracy and legal system, even the most severe of crimes result in suspects being arrested and then tried in a court of law, where their alleged crimes are critically examined. Then they are sentenced.

But within the antidemocratic law-unto-itself NRL, the very first we hear about the whole issue in the media is that the Storm is being thumped with the most extraordinary penalties, the likes of which have never been meted out before.

There was no critical examination in the equivalent of a court of law first. More documentation has just being collected today for examination. So the extent of the salary cap breach and the parts played by various people is still very poorly analysed.

How on earth can the NRL dish out any penalties now, at what really is a very early point in the process of finding out just who is guilty??

The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that David Gallop needs to be smartly put back into his box and the Storm’s penalties set aside completely until a full review has been conducted.

I don’t like the concept of trial by media, but I feel that in this case, appeal by media might not be a bad idea.

The media, the fans, sports analysts and the general public should be strongly condemning this fundamentally flawed dictatorial thumping dished out by the NRL.

the tip of the iceberg..they all play their games
its nothing compared to the scam that sees govt building huge stadiums..that investers buy lifetime seats in

or the olympic scams...where states like qld..build further odious debt to build stadiums..[little wonder greece/spain..even briton..being in huge sovereign debt..mainly via the cost of running these glabal scams

there will be a fight soon..as soon as people wake up to the jingo..paid for..on credit/bonds aranged by goldman/sax..and paid for by serfs/wage slaves// putting their next tax on their credit card..

its simply isnt suss-tainable..its playing games with others credit
look at the billions owed by uk soccar teams...the conivance of the tennis center..or the gifts toi the horse racing industry

its all on credit//govt gift and largess
..yet in the end they default...and you loose your super
and get a nice new tax..india rebelled a tax on salt
usa rebelled a tax on tea..you pay your tax on credit card

sleep you sheeple...your paying intrest on your tax
you just sleeping and havnt realised it...yet

its your super they play with

if you live beyond your means
sooner or later the dirt hits the fan
and sport is as dirty as it gets..

scum floats to the top
where the board scrapes off the cream..just like the days of rome..the same ursurors stealing your wealth..as amusment