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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2289500, member: 1917"] If the players lied on their tax returns, then they should clearly suffer any consequences associated with that. As for the NRL, I don't feel it would be fair if the players received huge punishments. It's not their job to ensure their club are under the cap, and whilst it's easy to say that what they did was wrong and should have come clean, the truth is it would be a much harder position than you might think. If you blow the whistle, then you are, in some sense, going to feel like you are letting down your mates, and I doubt any player is going to want to do that. As for taking the payments, the only real alternative I imagine would be to leave the club, and I can understand how that's not exactly the easiest choice to make either. IMO, it would be an incredibly tough position to be put in, and far too easy to point the finger and say "this is what you should have done". The people who should really be punished are the ones who put the players in the position to begin with. As for player punishments, I'd have thought being robbed of their premiership wins is just about the harshest thing that they could endure. [/QUOTE]

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