Mahoney started his football in Queensland, playing for the Kawana Dolphins and Beerwah Bulldogs as junior. Before being scouted by the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs for their SG ball team. After playing for Canterbury's Under 20's side, Mahoney was released by the club midway through the year after Canterbury declared he would never play first grade and rejected the offer of $1500 to keep him.
Possibly signed an NDA that if they reveal anything they have to pay back whatever they got. Plus the ATO would be after them for the unpaid tax on any undeclared income, plus penalties and interest. Could be a very expensive headline, that the spin merchants at the Chooks would turn around in 24 hours.
Those are not a realistic explanations, they are massive assumptions. And seriously, you don't think a disgruntled ex-player or employee could come forward to testify against us with a deal of immunity to reveal our "Oasis" type rort to the league? With the player and employee turn over we've had over the decades, none of them felt compelled to turn us in?
Fletch also constantly states we have $600K to spend in our cap, he's well known for talking shit.
Just remember, Eels claimed him as their junior too lol
LOL, you can't hold someone to an NDA in the course of committing a crime. And immunity is often offered to whistelblowers so why haven't any blown on us?
You referenced the Storm and that kind of answers your question. How could the Storm get caught for cheating the cap to win comps and other teams get caught for cheating the cap (like Parra) that don't even make the 8 yet the Roosters never cheat the cap despite having more talent than any other club over the past decade plus?
Parra noted their cap breaches in the board minutes, so they deserve no further explanation. But in regards to the storm and yourselves, there are precedents where whistleblowers have been given immunity from identification let alone prosecution for revealing those breaches, so why haven't we been exposed if as you say, we've been doing it for years for a multitude of players and employees? It makes no sense.
Which joke, the paper bags or the $600K?
Being paid off Cap is absolutely not a crime and if they declared income on their tax return then there is no issue there either. Winning, say, a golfing prize if you are not a professional player is not an issue, same as winning at gambling. Ever so easy to write an enforceable NDA for those sorts of activities, that are not illegal but are in contravention of the Salary Cap.
lol, you certainly can split a hair, but it's all your assumptions so go for it.
I can't remember one single salary cap scandal which has been leaked by a disgruntled player, Fam..... what would a player say? I admit to knowingly receiving under the table payments? Most players I know of who have been implicated in salary cap dramas have denied all knowledge. It's almost as if being seen to be complicit in such a scam, would be a bad thing. Namaste
An NDA that says something like "you agree not to reveal any confidential information as deemed to be so by the Chairman in advance". Let's say Chairman to player "Just between you and me, I have feeling that I am going to shank the next shot and you will win the $10k bonus". Bingo, enforceable NDA.
It's called coercion mate and you cannot enforce an NDA that stipulates a breach of an existing contract. If the player in the above scenario has a registered contract with the NRL, than the NDA is illegal.
Wining a golf hole prize (or other legal gambling winnings) is a way of getting around the Salary Cap, no NRL contracts are being breached.
If the player has a registered contract with the NRL, he is contractually obligated not to accept unauthorised monies outside what he gets paid as part of that contract. If the club tables an NDA that says "We'll give you extra money outside your contract as long as you don't say anything", the club is coercing the player into breaching his registered contract with the NRL and it makes the NDA illegal and therefore unenforceable. How can you not understand that?
That's not true, players can earn (and win) anything they like outside of their NRL contract, that's how TPA's operate (or more correctly are supposed to operate). Players boxing for example and getting paid decent $'s, they are not breaching any NRL rules doing that. Or getting paid for appearances on Foxtel, radio etc. You can bet the media companies will have NDA's in place, they generally do, especially for contracted (not on staff) presenters.
It is true because like contracts, TPA's (which include boxing matches and presenter duties) have to be registered and approved with the NRL.
Absolutely complementary, Politis has done a fantastic job for over a decade of getting players to the Chooks that would not otherwise go anywhere near them. This has enabled them to be consistently competitive which then adds to their attraction. Which he does by skirting around the rules very skillfully, and/or bending the rules to suite his objective and then getting the NRL to agree to them. What the NRL should do is release to the other clubs whatever clarifications on rules that they have issued (same as the ATO does). For example Cronk's $250k Harvard "scholarship" ($140k Harvard fees over 3 years and $110k for living expenses), most NRL clubs assumed that it was limited to Australian tertiary educations institutions and did not include living expenses in another country. It wouldn't have to be specific just that "overseas tertiary education and expenses are allowed".
You are right, his performance and dedication to find the white line cannot be questioned
