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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2910430, member: 8215"] Of course it's fraud. That's why the NRL are loathe to do anything heavy-handed about it. They don't want it to happen, of course, and they will put measures in place to prevent it from happening in the future, but if they went hard, right now, you'd find that half the players or more would be charged. No competition will risk that happening. The NRL showed their colours when they didn't ban the Storm players. If they didn't have the guts to tear up the contracts of 8-10 players because 2 or 3 of those happened to be marquees, they sure as **** won't risk 100 players getting done by authorities. Every journo worth their salt will know of specific players and their specific deals. Not just that "it happens", but actual cases. They won't speak up because their livelihood depends on the game, and of course they have no proof, so they'd be on the streets, or, at worst, sued (not that any agency would publish it anyway). Best example - a Sharks sponsor spoke up and gave details of the illegal payments he made to Paul Gallen. The at-the-time NSW captain. Journalistic gold - the scandal of the decade. Where did that story go? There's simply too much to lose by exposing what's already going on or has gone on in the past. The best they can hope for is to appear heavy-handed and hopefully prevent extreme cases of it happening in the future. [/QUOTE]

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