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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

All bets are off 

Well this could fuck the Warriors season before it's even begun:
The New Zealand Warriors are set to be penalised four to six competition points and fined up to $A500,000 for salary cap rorts, dating back to at least 2004, which put the club more than $A500,000 over the $A3.25 million cap limit.
The club's new management team is blaming the previous administration for secret player payments that have put the team's 2006 campaign at grave risk of becoming a disaster.
Warriors chairman Maurice Kidd told the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday that when the management informed him of irregularities they had found, he reacted with "horror, shock and disbelief".
"It pissed me off," Kidd said. "It was brought to my attention and then we immediately brought it to the attention of the NRL. The arrangements in question were made prior to the new administration coming in and we told the league we didn't know how this should be treated. It was a Pandora's box."

If the competition ran as close as it did last year there would be no way the Warriors could realisitically make the top 8 starting 3 matches down.

Mick Watson's bitter legacy continues huh.

The Warriors executive have this to say:
The Board of the Vodafone Warriors today announced it is working closely with the National Rugby League (NRL) to conduct a full investigation into squad player payments, after a number of potential discrepancies were uncovered in respect of the club’s salary cap. The potential discrepancies were discovered by Vodafone Warriors management during preparations for a standard pre-season follow-up audit by the NRL. Club chairman Maurice Kidd says the investigation relates to some player payments and arrangements negotiated prior to the appointment of the new management team – Chief Executive Wayne Scurrah, Executive Director, Football John Hart, and Head Coach Ivan Cleary – late last year. “We are in the process of clarifying the extent and current status of these arrangements and what obligations they may place on the club for the 2006 season and beyond, as well as any possible impact on the salary cap,” Kidd says.


Can I suggest punters don't unload on Warriors to make the top 8 at the current odds of $2.00.

In other, similarly sad news, I ask all bloggers to give a minute's silence for Yamis who will be shot tommorrow morning at dawn as a deserter.

All we ask is he be remembered for some of his finer posts.

Comments:
Damn, I woke up and the sun had already risen, meaning I wasn't able to spend a quiet moment pondering Yamis' demise. Oh well, at least the blogging community can divide up the "over 100" plants he established on his Massey estate. I'll take a kowhai, thanks.
 
I've already been shot. Mentally.

Never worked so hard in all my life. It would be easy if I could actually find time to lesson plan. Every spare minute is taken by fucking lunchtime duties, cricket teams, detentions, holding kids back in class, carrying text books all over the country side, organising fieldtrips, calling the parents of every child in the class and going to 90 minute meetings every other day.

I should have enough free time to write something in 7 weeks when the first holidays roll around.

It's friday night and I have to get up at 6am to take a bloody cricket team to Waiheke Island. Who the fuck let those hippy bastards in our comp?
 

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