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Message: [QUOTE="WASSHHH, post: 3344446, member: 9424"] I don’t personally have a bias against the Storm as such, other than the same dislike I have for any team that beats us. But I do absolutely hate teams that benefit from systematic cheating. The fact they, and in particular Smith, still to this very day argue and claim their titles should be reinstated does make me dislike them as a club more than most other clubs. And whilst paying one player more [U]may[/U] not make them play better; paying an entire team of players more for a number of years certainly doesn’t hurt their success and ability to form a nucleus of players, all the while supporting and nurturing their development in a stable and familiar environment. Let’s just imagine for one second what might have been had they not cooked their books for a number of years and their players got dispersed much earlier in their development. I’m not saying they’d be like we have been the last few years, but we are a great example of what happens when the right players and support is not provided to young players, regardless of how good they’ve been in the lower grades or how much potential they may have. It’s obviously hypothetical, but would any one of those Storm stars have been as good as they were as individual players if they’d been squeezed out of the Storm early on and ended up at a Tigers or Titans etc.? Who knows. But the point is, the club cheated and I believe it’s a fool’s errand to think such cheating didn’t benefit the club, coaches and players, on a number of levels. [/QUOTE]

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