Uncle Nick is on the NRL board so you know why they will never get caught, only time they did an audit they got a former Roosters golden boy to do the audit, I'm sure he was going to spill the beans haha
Infuriating how teams like the Roosters still blatantly get away with this shit while Cowboys have to lose one of their best players (Val) to accommodate the cap.
100%. Storm either home grow their talent or when they recruit them they are nobody’s. I’m no storm fan but if you can’t credit them/ Bellamy for that then you are simply biased. And compared to the big name recruits of the roosters over the years, I’m not sure it’s possible roosters are clean/ have always been clean if storm weren’t.
Because those player took unders to stay . If they did that in the beginning there woukd have been no issue but they didnt want to so signed 2 contracts . 100% cheating and just missing 1 player in smith they got smashed 40 nil and they were still over the cap. Dirty cheats there whole thing was cheating had to cheat in tackles too lol
@@ziggyhogan7560 They lost Inglis, Finch, Hoffman, etc after 2010, the big 3 retired and countless others have moved on and still they continue to be the greatest sporting team in Australian history due the to great culture and absolute mastermind, Craig Bellamy. Also many other clubs have been found guilty of salary cap breaches and still kept their titles which is bullshit.
😂 I really don't know what ya tryin to prove with this video considering its old old old news and they got punished stripped of premierships and a whole seasons points and they still came back stronger and always in the top. It's just a big coincidence you drop this video when they have the week off ready for another preliminary final to get into yes another grand final. This is some click bait bullish and ya need to just stop it and let it go because the real purple blooded supporters will never jump ship so try and get all the hate and views ya can 🤡
The fact is that even though the NRL have stripped certain years as premier's has had no affect on the Storm whatsoever, they still celebrate those years as premierships. We've all seen & heard the likes of Billy Slater saying they won the grand final those years & nobody including the NRL can change that as well as it wasn't right as they played those games & they won those games & whatever happens in the accounting department had nothing to do with the players/club. If he went on Maury Povich then that liar detector test would've come back as "that is a lie". The fact was all those Storm players knew exactly what was going on, all the players esp the big names like Inglis, Smith, Slater & Cronk otherwise why did they hide the extras & why did a lot of the extras come in material wealth rather then monetary. When they got done after the 2009 grand final 99% of Parra supporters wanted that trophy, (we had to get the trophy some way lol) yet i was one of those few Parra supporters who didn't want the Proven-Summons trophy handed to us in the back alley behind Parra Leagues. I was one that said that I'd hate to win a premiership in that way & as a supporter that's lived thru decades of misery, i want when that fulltime siren goes actually win the gf with points on the scoreboard. The funniest thing i can remember coming out of that saga after the title was stripped was in the first game of the 2010 season & we hadda home game. Walking from Parra station to Parra stadium thru where Parra Town Hall is was a a huge banner reading: *Welcome to the home of the REAL 2009 NRL Premiers* 😂
Great breakdown. My view is that given the amount of gambling revenue going through the game particularly in Sydney, there’s no way this isn’t still going on in some capacity. I’m assuming at the time this is what the Storm brass referred to. Genuinely I do wonder if that’ll ever be properly investigated. Given the boss of the league is a horse racing boss, I don’t think it’s a bridge too far to suggest the league has a vested interest in keeping it quiet.
Reminds me of the NCAA investigations of American College football teams for breaching the rules regarding paying its Amateur players. Vast majority of the teams where doing it but the governing body didn't investigate thoroughly because they didnt want their sport brought into disrepute and only when it was brought to light by a whistleblower that they finally acted.
if the salary cap is the same at every club and teams with 2 or 3 rep players have to constantly offload players to be compliant but other teams can continue signing and upgrading contracts while Feilding a dozen or more rep players well it's pretty clear what's going on, and I don't buy the BS that elite footy players take 200k pay cuts because they love a club, what's funny is how the NRL seems to think rep standard sides playing against club sides is good for the game
Great video. The worst mistake they made was getting caught (Unlike other teams) and giving the league the opportunity to drag down the pesky colonials who had gotten too big for their boots and been more successful than they were meant to. How dare a Melbourne team win premierships! Go Storm!
Anyone else find it suspicious the salary cap auditor is an ex player and life member of the Roosters ie the biggest rorters of the salary cap in NRL history.
The Victorian experiment failed, they were supposed to encourage Victorians to follow league, kids to play league and eventually come up and play for their local nrl team, but they haven't even looked like producing 1 junior, why are they there and not somewhere that actually has juniors and fans who love the game?
Where fans who love the game? 34k members this year, 32k last year, 38k in 22, bit of a drop in 21 and 20 with 27k in 22k respectively but were still 4th most in the league, you're dreaming if you think Melbourne doesn't love the game, AFL heartland and Storm consistently has more members than most NRL clubs, it's true the haven't produced many local players but who gives a shit. If players switching teams is an issue for you then maybe you're better off watching dancing or something
@lunch2102 where are their juniors? I played against Victoria for the NT, we beat them, a territory with a population of under 200k, Victoria aren't as good as Western Australian or South Australia, they are the worst state in Australia for rugby league, rugby union learnt and got out. A marketing stunt and a complete waste of resources.
@@mikethebreeze who gives a shit if they aren't producing juniors but apparently Mahe Fonua, Sua Fa'alogo, Dean leremia, Young Tonumaipea, Richie Kennar, Greg Marzhew, Charnze Nicoll Klokstad, Jake Webster are all Victorian boys.. 🤷🏻♂️ A marketing stunt with arguably the most successful team since its inception, BAAAHAHJJAJAJAHA. A waste of resources? I didn't know that they were funded by the NRL You need to get your hand off it mate.
@@mikethebreeze What are u on about? Since the storms inception NRL has grown more than any other sport in Victoria. Where tf else would they play NRL? SA tried and failed WA will never have a team and NT doesn't have a large enough market. You sound like a ignorant fool honestly. Where are the juniors? They are there your just stupid by the sound of it
@mikethebreeze your not mike the breeze your just blowing smoke! There's a shit load that came out of Victoria and made it in other teams including storm. Since storm came to Victoria the game has grown. How would you know if you don't live in Victoria?
You can tell the muppets the follow shit teams, more than a decade later and still can't get over it, regardless of the most significant punishment of any salary cap breach in the history of the game, jealousy is an ugly disease.
My team bullied the living shit out of the Storm. A team made from players we developed and lost due to the salary cap would stomp them for fun too. Some people just believe in fairness and justice, and others follow the Storm.
@lunch2102 no not jealous but other then premiership which they are now trying to get back the only thing that could be said to hurt them was the fact they copped a fine. Money that was inevitably given to them any how by the nrl. Where you look at the comparison say Carlton in the afl it 10 years for them to recover. The fact the storm still include those stripped premierships is proof in itself they they still haven't taken responsibility for their actions
@@timnicholls19 did they win those premierships? Carlton was just poor management, poor recruitment etc, can't blame their constant failures on a fine and losing a first round draft pick. Storm is a different beast, there is no club in this country that even comes close to them, regardless of the code.
Storm would not be the club they would be today and wouldn’t have the success they’ve had if this didn’t happen. They’re a club built off cheating and Bellamy has been propped up. Imagine a world where they didn’t make the GF in those 2006-2010 years because of their star studded squad, he would have been sacked a long time ago
But did they really have the 2007/09 premierships taken from them, because every time I watch the DVD's, it says otherwise. But on another note, this is why the NRL will always play second fiddle to the AFL, they are too Sydney-centric ... in other words they don't support any other team outside NSW, unlike the AFL who support all teams within the competition and even give special compensation to teams in non traditional states. This is also why Storm have been a constantly successful club, the club and supporters have a AFL club mentality and it's something that other NRL clubs don't understand, because dare I say, except for Cooper Cronk, no other ex Storm player who left the club has played consistently at the level they played while at the Storm. But then that's just my opinion.
@@Brendo2386 Call me crazy but do you think channel 9 would have more of a say on who they put on there broadcast and that the NRL would have very little input. So I stand by my opinion and add that channel 9 do more to grow the game outside NSW than even the NRL. Sorry if it hurts your feelings but facts don't care about your feelings
I still believe the Storm are suspicious when it comes to money. One of Australia's greatest sport clubs, but not a single Victorian-raised league household produced in 25 years. The defunct Melbourne Rebels were able to produce more Victorian rugby players in less time
Mahe Fonua, Sua Fa’alogo, Dean Ieremia, Young Tonumaipea, Richie Kennar, Greg Marzhew, Charnze Nicoll Klokstad, Jake Webster… Pretty sure one of the Bromwich boys and Gareth Widdop also played at the Altona Roosters as juniors
I dont know who told you that making youtube videos about nrl will get you out of the 9-5 matrix, but im here to tell you that u may as well give up son, its not worth it
now do one on the Roosters and how they've avoided being caught.
That won't ever happen unfortunately
Uncle Nick is on the NRL board so you know why they will never get caught, only time they did an audit they got a former Roosters golden boy to do the audit, I'm sure he was going to spill the beans haha
@@russneedham1701 Nick Politis is not on the NRL board, it’s an independent board so he can’t be on it.
Roosters , I thought they were called the Rorters ?
Say please
Infuriating how teams like the Roosters still blatantly get away with this shit while Cowboys have to lose one of their best players (Val) to accommodate the cap.
Ha ha ha ha. Go the Roosters
100%. Storm either home grow their talent or when they recruit them they are nobody’s. I’m no storm fan but if you can’t credit them/ Bellamy for that then you are simply biased. And compared to the big name recruits of the roosters over the years, I’m not sure it’s possible roosters are clean/ have always been clean if storm weren’t.
Cheers mate. Always wondered what happened. Can you do one on all the other NRL salary cap breaches? would love to know who else broke it.
Funny how they still won the minor premiership in 2011 and the premiership in 2012
Because those player took unders to stay . If they did that in the beginning there woukd have been no issue but they didnt want to so signed 2 contracts . 100% cheating and just missing 1 player in smith they got smashed 40 nil and they were still over the cap. Dirty cheats there whole thing was cheating had to cheat in tackles too lol
@@ziggyhogan7560 They lost Inglis, Finch, Hoffman, etc after 2010, the big 3 retired and countless others have moved on and still they continue to be the greatest sporting team in Australian history due the to great culture and absolute mastermind, Craig Bellamy. Also many other clubs have been found guilty of salary cap breaches and still kept their titles which is bullshit.
@@matthewkelly5430 which teams cheated the cap, but still kept their titles?
@@ThurstonWatt Sharks, Broncos, Roosters
😂 I really don't know what ya tryin to prove with this video considering its old old old news and they got punished stripped of premierships and a whole seasons points and they still came back stronger and always in the top. It's just a big coincidence you drop this video when they have the week off ready for another preliminary final to get into yes another grand final. This is some click bait bullish and ya need to just stop it and let it go because the real purple blooded supporters will never jump ship so try and get all the hate and views ya can 🤡
The fact is that even though the NRL have stripped certain years as premier's has had no affect on the Storm whatsoever, they still celebrate those years as premierships. We've all seen & heard the likes of Billy Slater saying they won the grand final those years & nobody including the NRL can change that as well as it wasn't right as they played those games & they won those games & whatever happens in the accounting department had nothing to do with the players/club. If he went on Maury Povich then that liar detector test would've come back as "that is a lie". The fact was all those Storm players knew exactly what was going on, all the players esp the big names like Inglis, Smith, Slater & Cronk otherwise why did they hide the extras & why did a lot of the extras come in material wealth rather then monetary.
When they got done after the 2009 grand final 99% of Parra supporters wanted that trophy, (we had to get the trophy some way lol) yet i was one of those few Parra supporters who didn't want the Proven-Summons trophy handed to us in the back alley behind Parra Leagues. I was one that said that I'd hate to win a premiership in that way & as a supporter that's lived thru decades of misery, i want when that fulltime siren goes actually win the gf with points on the scoreboard.
The funniest thing i can remember coming out of that saga after the title was stripped was in the first game of the 2010 season & we hadda home game. Walking from Parra station to Parra stadium thru where Parra Town Hall is was a a huge banner reading:
*Welcome to the home of the REAL 2009 NRL Premiers* 😂
Great breakdown.
My view is that given the amount of gambling revenue going through the game particularly in Sydney, there’s no way this isn’t still going on in some capacity. I’m assuming at the time this is what the Storm brass referred to.
Genuinely I do wonder if that’ll ever be properly investigated. Given the boss of the league is a horse racing boss, I don’t think it’s a bridge too far to suggest the league has a vested interest in keeping it quiet.
Reminds me of the NCAA investigations of American College football teams for breaching the rules regarding paying its Amateur players. Vast majority of the teams where doing it but the governing body didn't investigate thoroughly because they didnt want their sport brought into disrepute and only when it was brought to light by a whistleblower that they finally acted.
So that's why wigan warriors got Hoffman Lima and Finch on the cheap
Good organised crime story.
Great video mate! Very thorough :)
Do easts next, they have no salary cap limits.
if the salary cap is the same at every club and teams with 2 or 3 rep players have to constantly offload players to be compliant but other teams can continue signing and upgrading contracts while Feilding a dozen or more rep players well it's pretty clear what's going on, and I don't buy the BS that elite footy players take 200k pay cuts because they love a club, what's funny is how the NRL seems to think rep standard sides playing against club sides is good for the game
Great video mate!!
Every team does it. Bulldogs, Eels and Sharks. Roosters are definitely over the cap too
Bite your tongue. Chookies would never go over the salary cap. 😇
@@vette63Yeah. They only wear caps, not sombreros
@@vette63 Roosters don't have a salary cap, they get to spend whatever they want.
Nah only the roosters are over
@@SilentHotdog28it's straight bias
Can’t believe roosters have gotten away with theres while panthers are loosing about 3 star players a year
Every team is doing it, but I guess they are just paying cash the old fashioned way
like the panthers leagues club to vlandys and clubs nsw
@@dred3358are you thick 😂
Great work putting this video together
Great video. The worst mistake they made was getting caught (Unlike other teams) and giving the league the opportunity to drag down the pesky colonials who had gotten too big for their boots and been more successful than they were meant to. How dare a Melbourne team win premierships! Go Storm!
What is it like to endorse cheating thereby announcing to the world that you also are a cheat?
@@kensaville5233 keep crying ya loser
The NRL LOVED the Storm. They got 99% of the 50/50 calls, all the gloating media press love etc
Thank you brother, that was very informative.
Anyone else find it suspicious the salary cap auditor is an ex player and life member of the Roosters ie the biggest rorters of the salary cap in NRL history.
It would also be interesting to compare the sanctions imposed on all of the clubs that have breached the salary cap.
The Victorian experiment failed, they were supposed to encourage Victorians to follow league, kids to play league and eventually come up and play for their local nrl team, but they haven't even looked like producing 1 junior, why are they there and not somewhere that actually has juniors and fans who love the game?
Where fans who love the game? 34k members this year, 32k last year, 38k in 22, bit of a drop in 21 and 20 with 27k in 22k respectively but were still 4th most in the league, you're dreaming if you think Melbourne doesn't love the game, AFL heartland and Storm consistently has more members than most NRL clubs, it's true the haven't produced many local players but who gives a shit. If players switching teams is an issue for you then maybe you're better off watching dancing or something
@lunch2102 where are their juniors? I played against Victoria for the NT, we beat them, a territory with a population of under 200k, Victoria aren't as good as Western Australian or South Australia, they are the worst state in Australia for rugby league, rugby union learnt and got out. A marketing stunt and a complete waste of resources.
@@mikethebreeze who gives a shit if they aren't producing juniors but apparently Mahe Fonua, Sua Fa'alogo, Dean leremia, Young Tonumaipea, Richie Kennar, Greg Marzhew, Charnze Nicoll Klokstad, Jake Webster are all Victorian boys.. 🤷🏻♂️
A marketing stunt with arguably the most successful team since its inception, BAAAHAHJJAJAJAHA.
A waste of resources? I didn't know that they were funded by the NRL
You need to get your hand off it mate.
@@mikethebreeze What are u on about? Since the storms inception NRL has grown more than any other sport in Victoria. Where tf else would they play NRL? SA tried and failed WA will never have a team and NT doesn't have a large enough market. You sound like a ignorant fool honestly. Where are the juniors? They are there your just stupid by the sound of it
@mikethebreeze your not mike the breeze your just blowing smoke! There's a shit load that came out of Victoria and made it in other teams including storm. Since storm came to Victoria the game has grown. How would you know if you don't live in Victoria?
ofc they’ll be a video of Storm’s past right before they play in the Finalims/Grand final.
I always wondered about this since high school when the storm fans were so upset & then they beat teams anyway
Great work bro 👍👏
If I was the nrl how about the Melbourne bears based out of Bendigo think about it
Right or wrong, the Melbourne Storm brand has been forever tainted.
8:50 I believe you were meaning to censor the C?
canberra had half of the NSW and Qld teams in their heyday no cap back then i guess
Canberra did get done for salary breaches
Nice too see another knights fan, I Hate the fucking Storm more then any team in comp, Your voice is perfect for these mini docos
most people in australia dont even know where newcastle is
@@dred3358maybe some bogan morons
Poor old parra
You can tell the muppets the follow shit teams, more than a decade later and still can't get over it, regardless of the most significant punishment of any salary cap breach in the history of the game, jealousy is an ugly disease.
My team bullied the living shit out of the Storm. A team made from players we developed and lost due to the salary cap would stomp them for fun too. Some people just believe in fairness and justice, and others follow the Storm.
@@chrisdawson954 yeah ok champ
Riff humbled Melbin 🖤
@@lunch2102 X4, no rort
All the teams do it
They should of had all players dropped and broken up through out the league
The single most stupid comment I think I have ever seen on TH-cam!! If ever there was one sentence that screamed "jealousy" then that was it!
@lunch2102 no not jealous but other then premiership which they are now trying to get back the only thing that could be said to hurt them was the fact they copped a fine. Money that was inevitably given to them any how by the nrl. Where you look at the comparison say Carlton in the afl it 10 years for them to recover. The fact the storm still include those stripped premierships is proof in itself they they still haven't taken responsibility for their actions
@@timnicholls19 did they win those premierships?
Carlton was just poor management, poor recruitment etc, can't blame their constant failures on a fine and losing a first round draft pick.
Storm is a different beast, there is no club in this country that even comes close to them, regardless of the code.
@lunch2102 now that's the dimmest thing I've heard in years. It's and literally on a video about them cheating to gain success.
@@timnicholls19 ok champ. A small period of time in 2.5 decades of dominance... time to give your mummy back her phone
Storm would not be the club they would be today and wouldn’t have the success they’ve had if this didn’t happen. They’re a club built off cheating and Bellamy has been propped up. Imagine a world where they didn’t make the GF in those 2006-2010 years because of their star studded squad, he would have been sacked a long time ago
If you bother to look at the years after, you'd see they're not built off cheating. Dumb comment
Mehe mai bless the lord ❤️ Melbourne storm 🙏 and the players in life OK ka.pai blessing for the team and coach belamey 🎉❤keep safe ka.pai
Still confused ay
Good video but your mic pops make it impossible to listen to in headphones. Hurt my ears
Cheated pure and simple
They still benefited from the rort moving forward
But did they really have the 2007/09 premierships taken from them, because every time I watch the DVD's, it says otherwise. But on another note, this is why the NRL will always play second fiddle to the AFL, they are too Sydney-centric ... in other words they don't support any other team outside NSW, unlike the AFL who support all teams within the competition and even give special compensation to teams in non traditional states. This is also why Storm have been a constantly successful club, the club and supporters have a AFL club mentality and it's something that other NRL clubs don't understand, because dare I say, except for Cooper Cronk, no other ex Storm player who left the club has played consistently at the level they played while at the Storm. But then that's just my opinion.
That's BS. Storm and Broncos get more free to air games than anyone etc Those teams are pushed positively in media to get a bigger fanbase
@@Brendo2386 Call me crazy but do you think channel 9 would have more of a say on who they put on there broadcast and that the NRL would have very little input. So I stand by my opinion and add that channel 9 do more to grow the game outside NSW than even the NRL. Sorry if it hurts your feelings but facts don't care about your feelings
@@mjmack633 Seems you are the one with the hurt feelings haha I was saying facts. NRL push the Storm etc
@@Brendo2386 OK, mate if you say so. you win.
yes yes yes city ford says yes more often biggest scammers in the league plastic coach and nick
I still believe the Storm are suspicious when it comes to money. One of Australia's greatest sport clubs, but not a single Victorian-raised league household produced in 25 years. The defunct Melbourne Rebels were able to produce more Victorian rugby players in less time
Sua is Victorian
As is Young Tonumaipea and Dean Ieremia.
Mahe Fonua, Sua Fa’alogo, Dean Ieremia, Young Tonumaipea, Richie Kennar, Greg Marzhew, Charnze Nicoll Klokstad, Jake Webster… Pretty sure one of the Bromwich boys and Gareth Widdop also played at the Altona Roosters as juniors
Suspicious? They were proven to be cheats to the highest degree.
That’s absolute bullshit there’s over 10 Victorian players in the NRL it actually not hard to do some research
I dont know who told you that making youtube videos about nrl will get you out of the 9-5 matrix, but im here to tell you that u may as well give up son, its not worth it
shut up
you sound like a storm fan, plus if you think making 2 videos a week is a full time job, you clearly never had one before
@@KojoGotMojoI'm a storm fan and we don't claim this bum. We cheated like everyone else, we paid for it, we still coming first 😂
It’s Melbourne Storms not Storm
Storm/cheaters/denigrates.
@@deanriley5690 Going by that statement the Sharks are also cheaters
@@deanriley5690 So you give those same monikers to every other team?
If you're a Polynesian coconut and can't read. Sure..... But no it's Storm
@@deanriley5690 Keep crying mate
Melbourne are number 1
Biggest losers in NRL Grand final history
40-0
@sriley064 most successful team in nrl history 🙌
@@Hazardbone no?
@pooddly9637 yes they literally are
Penrith are number 1 mate