Salary Cap Witch Hunt. **Appeal unsuccessful**

[Simonmyers11]

Only allegations for now. Hopefully all cleared up within 5 days. I seriously doubt Manly would be involved in numerous illegal payments.

The sooner this is put to bed the better. Is possibly affecting our pursuit of other potential signings

 

[mave]

Not much chance with Scott Pennburg as owner.
History has a habit of repeating itself when self interested people have control.

 

[Shoe1]

I call it task force neuralgia

 

[Captain Moondog]

This is all getting very Kafkaesque
“Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

 

[Sheikheagle]

If there are two former players involved i wonder if this explains a players no show at his farewell. I hope not.

 

[Mitch]

Tweet from Neil Evans

NRL: TPA's at Manly the tip.. ?? certain personal management payments made which the players knew about to be dug out ? #SeaEagles

 

[MightyEagles]

Tweet from Neil Evans

NRL: TPA's at Manly the tip.. ?? certain personal management payments made which the players knew about to be dug out ? #SeaEagles

Another disgruntled former employee

 

[maxta]

Gee the NRL went hard with this drawn out investigation - almost personal.
Would be highly surprised if they didn’t dig something up at EVERY club with such an intense search.
We were handicapped almost 1.5 million last season, would think they were happy with that.
The NRL has tarnished Manly in the past with failed allegations of match fixing and even a rape case....with zero apology and almost arrogantly swept it away and were more pi**ed off they were wrong, rather than acknowledging Manly had done no wrong.
That explains the intensity of this still unproven mess and why the focus of this cap stuff has been all about 1 club than 15 others.
Before the Pearce saga I posted about this potentially costing a player, but hoped it wouldn’t....well it did, along with money from many other angles that will cost sponsorships and so much more.
No sour grapes IF this is foul play by Manly, just dirty the NRL are so vengeful they put 90% into probing Manly and 10% into the other 15 teams combined.
Never thought I would lose my passion for footy, but the double standards make me sick - my interest will come back for round 1....but the game today has lost me more than ever before.

 

[fLIP]

And here I was thinking we had another boring off season to struggle through.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

And here I was thinking we had another boring off season to struggle through.

Same or similar **** EVERY ****ING YEAR!

 

[HappilyManly]

Gee the NRL went hard with this drawn out investigation - almost personal.
Would be highly surprised if they didn’t dig something up at EVERY club with such an intense search.
We were handicapped almost 1.5 million last season, would think they were happy with that.
The NRL has tarnished Manly in the past with failed allegations of match fixing and even a rape case....with zero apology and almost arrogantly swept it away and were more pi**ed off they were wrong, rather than acknowledging Manly had done no wrong.
That explains the intensity of this still unproven mess and why the focus of this cap stuff has been all about 1 club than 15 others.
Before the Pearce saga I posted about this potentially costing a player, but hoped it wouldn’t....well it did, along with money from many other angles that will cost sponsorships and so much more.
No sour grapes IF this is foul play by Manly, just dirty the NRL are so vengeful they put 90% into probing Manly and 10% into the other 15 teams combined.
Never thought I would lose my passion for footy, but the double standards make me sick - my interest will come back for round 1....but the game today has lost me more than ever before.

Lucky that our major Sponsor is a Law firm now

 

[Captain Moondog]

Gee the NRL went hard with this drawn out investigation - almost personal.

Absolutely, they couldn't prove match fixing, now they've gone with the salary cap. It seems they've got an overwhelming need to prove Manly guilty of something.

 

[Pablo]

I think some folks in social media land need a chill pill and a maths lesson.
Parra and Storm fans think a 350k breach is some how comparable to their 3.2 and 3.8 million dollar ones.

 

[fLIP]

Absolutely, they couldn't prove match fixing, now they've gone with the salary cap. It seems they've got an overwhelming need to prove Manly guilty of something.

When cronulla were doping the **** out of their players all we heard for quite some time was that Manly was the culprit.

 

[Loobs]

Gee the NRL went hard with this drawn out investigation - almost personal.
Would be highly surprised if they didn’t dig something up at EVERY club with such an intense search.
We were handicapped almost 1.5 million last season, would think they were happy with that.
The NRL has tarnished Manly in the past with failed allegations of match fixing and even a rape case....with zero apology and almost arrogantly swept it away and were more pi**ed off they were wrong, rather than acknowledging Manly had done no wrong.
That explains the intensity of this still unproven mess and why the focus of this cap stuff has been all about 1 club than 15 others.
Before the Pearce saga I posted about this potentially costing a player, but hoped it wouldn’t....well it did, along with money from many other angles that will cost sponsorships and so much more.
No sour grapes IF this is foul play by Manly, just dirty the NRL are so vengeful they put 90% into probing Manly and 10% into the other 15 teams combined.
Never thought I would lose my passion for footy, but the double standards make me sick - my interest will come back for round 1....but the game today has lost me more than ever before.

Same. Releasing this at the pivotal point in teams yearly membership drives. They’ve been sitting on this till the time when it would hurt most - kills signings and halts memberships. Todd’s agenda against Manly is just sad.

If it’s club arranged TPA’s what did they do about Maloney admitting th Panthers had to sort out one for him? Nothing. Andrew Gee? Nothing. Parra? Funny how that all got cleaned up neat and tidy to position them nicely for their new stadium. Us - we get ****ed over on every front year after year but somehow we keep going and winning. Biggest **** you we can give to the NRL.

 

[Loobs]

And you can add to this us getting dragged through the mud over unproven steroids or whatever - result - nothing other damaged reputation. Cronulla - guilty - players get a one week suspension during the offseason and nothing else.

 

[Jigzkiller]

What are the odds on botox boy being 1 of the rollovers? I'd say odds on.

 

[Pablo]

Why are we facing such a substantial fine?
A simple salary cap breach history google search shows that the normal fine is anywhere between 75% to 150% of the amount breached......

 

[MadMarcus]

"2 former Manly Stars" - Need to be named and then forgotten they were ever at our club.

I hope it's not Hasson and Williame. It would be such a shame to tarnish their legacy at the club.

 

[Mark from Brisbane]

What are the odds on botox boy being 1 of the rollovers? I'd say odds on.

Be very very VERY careful about speculating the “ who done it”, otherwise you and possibly @Dan could be staring down a defamation case.