I have to agree with you Blue Cross. I lost interest in sport when it became the antithisis of sportsmanship. But then sportsmanship has lost its meaning too when winning is paramount at any cost, so cheating is practiced by most from drugs to sledging and everything in between.

Quite so snake... it is the commodification of everything under the sun, part of the cult of 'choice' we all have to suffer these days.

And this can also be seen in 'education' with all the angst of parents hoping their kiddie will do better than the one next door s/he plays with...hence all the rubbish we now endure with the NAPALM tests that drive schools today.

Competition, is the curse of today, not the solution.

I also hate horse racing, but a mte is an 'expert' in the field and assures me its just the same game there, with cheating everywhere and governments ripping off those in the industry.

Shame, because 'sport' is a happy endeavour we should all be engaged in as participants rather than observers, for as long as we can be.

I still think a better outcome would have been to let the season run it's course, then strip MS of their points, effectively removing them from the top eight.

This way there would have been less disruption to the overall game and max disruption to MS.

Either way, I think they should be kicked out for the reminder of season 2010 as they still have an unfair advantage and much more pride to play for now.

According to the news last night salary caps are often abused and there is nothing to stop 'sponsors' from making under the table payments to keep good players from leaving. These are hidden payments so who is to know just how rife this practice is?

Unfortunately as snake and TBC have already said, there is no sportsmanship. This level of sport has become big business first and foremost. The only way to stop it, is for the fans to turn away in droves.

I don't know much about the accountability of elite sport, but are the clubs and players audited on a regular basis?

I am now slavishly following the demise of this goons game as the News Corp people pretend they came from Barcelona and 'knew nossing'... or was that from the Howard cabinet years?

Seems News had six directors on the board, yet 'knew nothing'.

One wonders whether having a small incestuous cabal of directors in this country is serving shareholders very well, or are they all so blind that they have no idea what goes on in a 'game' (read 'industry') that they own lock,stock and barrel... no real need to check anything when it's a monopoly, is there?

How does Rupes manage to run his meeja empire with tossers like these working for his gain?

Of course, the other side to this is that Gallop is totally honest, which I tend to believe because he would never had kicked the Storm mob otherwise, and has been cuckolded by everyone else in his industry, which I am also moving towards.

The players seem to be mostly too stupid to know where their money comes from, or how much they earn. Too busy chasing 'models' and sticking their fingers up other players backsides, or working at 110% of human capacity, so fast the world just slips past..

Of course, all these sports teams have 'chaplains' these days.... what were they doing while Rome was burning, eh?

Where was the 'spiritual oversight' from these appendages... in fact, given there are so many 'chaplains' in sport, how come so many 'footy' players are so bereft of 'morals'?

Ludwig,(Welcome back, been bush huh?)

All,

The article is so far over the top it could be confused with Australia's outer space program.

Cancer = over payment..... isn't that the basis of capitalism?

Cancer = professional sport particularly football all codes Sounds about right to me.

Sack them all make the over paid yobs get a real job!

Instead of watching it and getting bitter and twisted over something that makes marginally more sense and about as a family first senator.