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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2516544, member: 1992"] Morkel , I seldom agree with AP but the NRL has a figure in mind when they allow/review a roster with regard to the cap at the time. If you had the top 26 players in the game today and all fitted under the cap the of one club then the NRL would refuse to register them. They assign a value to the players, it may not be published or even agreed too by the player ,club or market. They have that power. Melbourne paid overs because the market valued these players more highly, that is true but what the market valued the players at influenced the NRL when making their own valuations. Im not saying what Melbourne did was right, indeed it was wrong because it allowed a team to stay together that the mediocrity of other clubs could not tolerate. Melbourne were punished not so much for cheating but for excellence. They developed their own and due to being successful were a victim of that success. No matter what, they lost players, lost prestige, lost fans, lost sponsorships ,lost points ,lost premierships, lost credibility and finally lost trust. It's a credit to them that they have risen from those losses. It's more than high time the holy than thous moved on. The crimes been paid for and the current players and roster is legal. Simply having a few of that squad till playing together is neither here nor there. [/QUOTE]

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