Salary Cap Witch Hunt. **Appeal unsuccessful**

[Chip and Chase]

Wasn't Kate Mc##t our hero and the worlds best journalist when she was crucifying Parra?

She should be given the keys to the city for her dogged pursuit of those Obeid grubs.

 

[Bearfax]

Curious it is, isnt it, that Manly is one of the very few clubs to have never come under confirmed adverse financial dealings regarding the cap, and yet Manly is the one targeted yet again for such in alleged impropriety. Says much regarding which clubs control the game.

 

[voicefromthehill]

And the bow just got longer

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/former-ma...d-over-huge-cocaine-bust-20170818-gxzg66.html

 

[HappilyManly]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/former-ma...d-over-huge-cocaine-bust-20170818-gxzg66.html

Former Manly sponsor Robby Melhem charged over huge cocaine bust
Kate McClymont, Ava Benny-Morrison, Rachel Olding

Robby Melhem, once a major sponsor of the Manly Sea Eagles, has been refused bail after being charged over a major drug bust.

Sources have told Fairfax Media that during his sponsorship of Manly, which finished several years ago, Mr Melhem had allegedly been supplying cocaine and prostitutes to some players as well as making cash payments to some in breach of salary cap regulations. On several occasions at private parties hosted by Mr Melhem he allegedly provided cocaine to some players.
....
This is a clear case of defamation of the Manly brand 😡

Now we have the name of the disgruntled 'business man'

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

This ****e salary cap investigation won't be finishing anytime soon, despite almost zero chance of a positive finding against Manly. But thanks to "sources" we'll keep getting bad press..

"Sources have told Fairfax Media that during his sponsorship of Manly, which finished several years ago, Mr Melhem had allegedly been supplying cocaine and prostitutes to some players as well as making cash payments to some in breach of salary cap regulations. On several occasions at private parties hosted by Mr Melhem he allegedly provided cocaine to some players.

"It is not suggested that Stewart, Watmough or Kennedy were involved in any wrongdoing in connection with Mr Melhem"
[but I thought I'd name them anyway]

 

[HappilyManly]

The way I see it is that those involved in the genesis of this story, are all trying to save face and justify the monies spent on fighting shadows

2012-04-16 Kate McClymont wants an expose on Hayson for whatever reason.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/haysons-l...-gone-wrong-lead-to-court-20120415-1x1pz.html

She has tried to get the story going for years but realizes that no one cares about low level racing identities.

2016-06-04 Kate McClymont then finds out that an NRL Golden Boy Fiz is heavily involved with Hayson

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-matchfixing-allegations-20160603-gpaxfd.html

She realizes that NRL bad news stories are front page news.
Probably believes that a Police Investigation will help uncover more dirt on Hayson.

2016-06-09 Manly Appoint former NSW chief racing steward Ray Murrihy as a consultant after the club was embroiled in match fixing allegations

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-matchfixing-allegations-20160609-gpfut6.html

2016-09-16 NSW Organised Crime Squad launches Strike Force Nuralda to investigate at Tax Payer expense

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-im-just-not-sure-he-can-20160915-grh27x.html

2017-07-05 Kate McClymont reports alleged salary cap breaches at a number of Clubs, but only headlines Manly

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...s-as-scandal-engulfs-nrl-20170705-gx565b.html

Police are unable to share information if it is gained during confidential coercive examinations, which can not be released to non-police organisations such as the NRL.
However, the information of an un-named Business man's payments are leaked to the NRL by the Police.

2017-07-09 NSW Organised Crime Squad, Strike Force Nuralda clears Manly of alleged match-fixing

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/07/09/murrihy-not-surprised-see-manly-cleared

2017-07-19 NRL descend on Manly HQ to re audit their Salary Cap

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...investigation-into-manly-20170719-gxe57p.html


( Post 1 - Manly is the just meat in the sandwich as far as I can tell 😎)

2017-08-19 NRL Auditors taking too long for Kate's liking, post next tenuous link to Manly - Former Manly sponsor Robby Melhem charged over huge cocaine bust

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/former-ma...d-over-huge-cocaine-bust-20170818-gxzg66.html

....
Post 2 -Let's keep the timeline going 😎

 

[MadMarcus]

Who is this guy Melhem anyway?

I'm starting to think McClymont must've been a Bears fan.

 

[Budgie]

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/former-ma...d-over-huge-cocaine-bust-20170818-gxzg66.html

Former Manly sponsor Robby Melhem charged over huge cocaine bust
Kate McClymont, Ava Benny-Morrison, Rachel Olding

Robby Melhem, once a major sponsor of the Manly Sea Eagles, has been refused bail after being charged over a major drug bust.

Sources have told Fairfax Media that during his sponsorship of Manly, which finished several years ago, Mr Melhem had allegedly been supplying cocaine and prostitutes to some players as well as making cash payments to some in breach of salary cap regulations. On several occasions at private parties hosted by Mr Melhem he allegedly provided cocaine to some players.
....
This is a clear case of defamation of the Manly brand 😡

Now we have the name of the disgruntled 'business man'

My problem is that while ever we invited Eddie Hayson into our dressing room there has been a stench around that version of the club that I will always have trouble defending.

 

[MadMarcus]

He was a "former sponsor" as of 2009, so how far back are we going here?

http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/667155/Sea-Eagles-deny-rumours-of-ownership-change

I heard an exec at Pioneer got a parking ticket the other day. Don't tell Kate.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

2017-08-19 Former Manly sponsor Robby Melhem charged over huge cocaine bust
....
Let's keep the timeline going 😎

Don't we write dates as 19.8.2017? Yours looks too American!

 

[nightster]

jeez bottom of the barrel junk news ..... someone has really got it in for us ..... ancient hearsay .... move on people

 

[HappilyManly]

Don't we write dates as 19.8.2017? Yours looks too American!

As a retired Business Intelligence Systems Designer, good datawarehouse sort order is most significant to least - YYYY/MM/DD

It's a simple order and independent of geography 🙂

 

[HappilyManly]

My problem is that while ever we invited Eddie Hayson into our dressing room there has been a stench around that version of the club that I will always have trouble defending.

Dressing rooms of all Sports are full of 'colourful Identities'.

Manly doesn't have to defend anything.
Their lawyers would just be collating the sustained attacks on their Brand and adding the zeroes to their defamation claim

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

jeez bottom of the barrel junk news ..... someone has really got it in for us .....

You think??
To include the name Manly in the headline and to devote the first paragraph to allegations about Manly by unnamed 'sources' is disgusting. The bloke is facing charges so serious they carrying imprisonment for life, it is clearly a major drug bust, how pathetic to use that to justify a story about Manly.
I'm sure Greenberg will come out defending us about this outrage.

 

[globaleagle]

Don't we write dates as 19.8.2017? Yours looks too American!

ugh...Nth Americans write dates in MM/DD/YYYY format so it looks even uglier.

08.19.2017

It's hard to get used to the difference, esp when the days are less than the twelfth!

08.06.17 - like what? are we in june or aug. sheesh nth 'mericans!

 

[HappilyManly]

ugh...Nth Americans write dates in MM/DD/YYYY format so it looks even uglier.

08.19.2017

It's hard to get used to the difference, esp when the days are less than the twelfth!

08.06.17 - like what? are we in june or aug. sheesh nth 'mericans!

So what say is it in Mooseland now

 

[globaleagle]

So what say is it in Mooseland now

"Friday"



I just read the smh article you posted. Talk about the hatchet job one can do simply by putting the word sources at the beginning of a sentence.

 

[voicefromthehill]

As a retired Business Intelligence Systems Designer, good datawarehouse sort order is most significant to least - YYYY/MM/DD

It's a simple order and independent of geography 🙂

Im glad someone else follows that method - I used to use it in project management to be able to easily sort versions of documents. I now use it for quoting, so easy to know when the quote was given

 

[HappilyManly]

Im glad someone else follows that method - I used to use it in project management to be able to easily sort versions of documents. I now use it for quoting, so easy to know when the quote was given

Clients always needed Top/Down summaries to drill into their business info.
Simple hierarchies also speed up database processing

KISS

 

[fLIP]

Wow this witch has a bone to pick doesn't she.

To think 12 months ago I was howled down here for saying Kate needed to start coming forth with evidence and here we are a year later still being dished up "Sources have told Fairfax Media" tripe.

There should be a law against this ****. Either you name your source or you cant publish it. I'd be happier to buy it all if it were called the 'Sydney Morning Fiction'.