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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2648339, member: 8215"] For one thing, it's clear that Waldron wants a new job, and is trying to appear as the sort of bloke who'll take a hit for his team. Problem is, it's 5 years too late, so anything he says will be calculated in the interests of repairing his public image. I believe nothing he says. Also, there was nothing mentioned about this so-called development money being able to go to the players as a cap-free bonus. With new teams like the Gold Coast receiving little to no help in that regard, why would the NRL offer it to a mostly established club? It's just as likely that the money was going to be granted to the club to be used to bolster their advertising and media visibility down there, but someone at the Storm decided to siphon some of that off to keep the players' salaries topped up. That, and one more fact - he says that there were existing contracts that needed to be honored. Where does that leave Inglis' new contract? A new contract would mean exactly that - a new contract, no cap-free NRL supplement payments to honor. If the negotiations happened after the NRL pulled the pin on the payments, then the Storm did that of their own free will, not because they were obliged to by the NRL. And if the negotiations happened before, then where does the free boat come in to it? Too many holes in his story to trust anything he's said. It's all spin, in an attempt to resurrect his career, it doesn't change my views on him, the coach, or the players one bit. [/QUOTE]

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