The possibility has opened up that Cronulla could lose star signing Shaun Johnson following the ongoing investigation into the club's salary cap breach.
Brent Read of The Australian reports that NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg has this week informed the Sharks that the outcome of the probe may not be known until the end of February.
If this is the case, it would leave the club very little time to become salary cap compliant, with shedding players potentially the only way of doing so.
If not compliant, the last player signed by the club, star recruit Shaun Johnson would face being ruled ineligible for round one and could be forced into the open market.
The Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers would be amongst the limited options available with salary cap space for the New Zealand international.
Read reports that there is increased speculation that the cap issues at the Sharks could be worse than first thought, with the club only conducting interviews with players and staff this week.
The club first came under the microscope of the NRL after self-reporting potential third party breaches uncovered during a club-initiated internal review.
Hahahahahahahaha
Maybe the Roosters can sign him and Cronulla have to pay half the contract๐คฃ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐คฃ๐๐๐ Or Saints would be favourites if De Belin manned up and stood himself down until court proceedings have finished. But if Parra got him they would automatically come into top four calculation. Manly need a decent 5/8 but they are cheats also, so that rules them out. The Tigers have already got that many halves they are turning them into hookers and fullbacks. Roosters need a halfback next season. Perhaps he could play for the bears for 1 year then take over from Superman Cooper.๐ช๐๐
Is anyone surprised by this, probably not. Perth keeps getting closer and closer doesnโt gummies fans.
No surprise that its a Queenslander reporting this on the most hated club in Queensland. They all know that the sharks have a good roster and will do anything within there power to destory the club.
Looks Like Saint Illawarra might get their juniors back and go for 12 comps in a row. But if Cronulla is moved to Perth Souths will of coarse try and move in to take them like they stole a chunk of Roosters, Newtown and Glebe juniors. ๐ช๐๐
It’s all a load of crap as usual from idiot journalists. We are getting a small fine that’s it!
Lol, good
Haha, donโt know about the bunnies getting in there but the first part of what you said is true. What a waste of juniors letting them play for a stain of an organisation like that.
Geez, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
I think this is just a beat up with very little truth to it but if I am wrong and the SC cheating is bad enough to result in Johnson having to find another club then 1) Johnson should be compensated by the sharks big time and 2) The Cronulla Sharks should lose their licence. How the NRL fill their place in the short term, I don’t know but Cronulla have to go after all this.
SJ will end up at the Raiders.
Yea right $1m to play reserve grade with bears. Im sure the rorters could squeeze another $1m under their cap right now without the NRL noticing anything.
Seriously this club is an embarrassment to the NRL and the game. No wonder the public are turning away from the game. Greenburger and the useless Beattie need sacking and new management put in. The credibility of the nrl is gone.
Surprised the Roosters didn’t sign him before the Sharks with their unlimited ‘cap’
The NRL will remain a joke and the fans will continue to walk away if they don’t start putting the foot down on clubs such as the Rorters. It’s beyond a joke now what they have gotten, and continue to get away with while the NRL only goes after clubs like the Sharks and Tigers
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Of course if it is actually a level playing field but people won’t accept it, and continue to believe their own fallacies, then there’s really not a lot the NRL can do for them.
Does anyone know what the outcome of yesterday’s meeting with Bart Simpson ? What is the betting that it was a load of hot air and no actions.
Start walking you sook Brick Top. If your not happy then ping off๐ช๐๐—————–That way for sooks โก
I know an SP Bookie who can give you odds of 3/1๐ช๐๐ Russellโโโโโ Russโโโโโ Another bloke who wants to put a bet on.
Heโll end up at the Roosters. Theyโre about 4 mil under the cap.
They go after the sharks because the sharks keep giving them reasons to go after them. Everyone knows the roosters rort like crazy but theyโre skilled enough so that they donโt get caught and donโt step on their d1cks like the sharks do all the time.
Straight to the Roosters do collect 2 million dollars,do collect 2 houses,do collect 2 cars,do collect 2 boats,do collect 2 brown paper bags full of cash
Yep that will do it every time. Dumb comments like that usually is caused by a cyst on the brain๐ง โฆโฆ..๐ช๐๐ or the usual clown that cant divide 30 players into a salary cap. Mate there are some really great math tutors out there in the real world. Spend some of your dole cheque on them.๐๐๐๐คฃ
Yea mate but if you play for Manly, Melbourne, Parra, Canterbury or any other cheating club you get to collect 4 million dollars, do collect 4 houses ,do collect 4 cars,do collect 4 boats,do collect 4 brown paper bags full of cash and no premierships because they get written out of the record books forever.
Now do yourself a favour and see a good head shrink. See jealousy is a curse and if you can’t conquer it, then your life will be in ruins. ๐จโโ๏ธ๐ท๐ฉโโ๏ธ
He should of signed with us in the first place, would be a top 4 team automatically
100% BD
Yeah because manly havenโt had any salary cap issues lately have they? Idiot.
NRL can’t touch the Roosters – Nick Politis has too many financial ties with the NRL. Many of the car’s that the NRL are given as company cars and picked from his car yards. Its a business after all.
@woodchook – before you reply with some dumb comment while you’re on your knees, do some research and find out more about your club and the people that run it.
@ cyst – hahahaha….close but probably still under
@ woodchook – you can’t be telling people to get a maths tutor when you can’t even spell. Look above at one of your posts, you spelt ‘course’ as ‘coarse’. Bit rough on your english champ….hahahaha
Woodchook is that deluded that he believes his club are actually not rorting the salary cap. Wake up to yourself you twit!!!!
No skill involved. Just compromising photos in Nicks safe
What cap?
EVERY club has salary cap issues IDIOT. BUT only a few are given special exemptions. What is it that you can’t understand about that IDIOT?
The WOOD is too deluded to ever wake up.
Really? So who got caught? Yeah thatโs right, your joke of a club. Idiot.
Provide proof or your just dribbling $hit like the rest of the low lifeโs that support your stain of a club.
Itโs your stain currently being punished for cheating the cap, what team cheats to be in the Bottom 4
We got another jealous bottom feeder over here, I hope you enjoy the next 5 years in the bottom 4.
โEVERY club has salary cap issues IDIOT.โ
Hahahaha not every club has cheated like your stain of a club, provide some proof of other teams cheating?
Your stain is pathetic just like there pea brain fans, enjoy the bottom 4
Wmlmaster provide proof or dribble somewhere else?
Sorry to disappoint the haters again but latest, and several credible reports, unlike the bulk of the article, state that Cronulla is well under the cap for 2019 and even has 2 places yet to be filled on their 30 man roster. So on both counts there is enough “insurance” or room to be very confident to almost certain that Shaun Johnson will remain at the club. Any additional fine is well covered and will not involve the removal of 2019 contracted players. Move along folks, nothing to see here…….
Oh, so now “EVERY club has salary cap issues”.
When Parra was done for it, and we deserved to be given we cheated, it seemed like there was hundreds of Manly fans (I know, hundreds seems like a massive exaggeration given the size of their supporter base), and a few others, bagging the club no end.
Then there was the “it’s a witch hunt”, and full denial phase when Manly were being investigated.
Later came the “it was just a slight admin error” from Manly supporters.
But hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, over several years, involving around a dozen players was, well, very poor admin, so now it’s “EVERY club has salary cap issues”.
You’re deluded b2b
Ah let me think… oh yea parra.
Just like you provided the proof of others being caught. The truth will come out eventually once the rorters protectors are no longer running the NRL.
The difference is the eels were in a category of their own. Handing out wads of cash to players in paperbags outside dark alleys and car parks. Deliberately deceitful activity Just like the storm with their two sets of books. Manly invited the NRL to investigate. Manlys was a matter of interpretation re third party agreements, yet teams like the rorters have the same agreements and are allowed to get away with it. So yes every club has issues to varying degrees and subject to varying levels or sometimes non existent scrutiny
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Could end up Cowboys and move Morgan into Fullback or Eels or Warriors on a pay cut hahahahaha
The difference is your cognitive bias. That’s it, that’s the biggest difference.
Manly got caught. It can pretend all it wants, and make up as many far fetched excuses as they like (which at least 1 person believes), but it doesn’t alter the fact that they cheated.
“Misinterpreted TPA’s”, give me a break.
Johnson should have stayed in NZ on his million dollar a year contract, proven his worth and then earned himself an extension. NZ are going to regret letting him go !!!
I did one second of research and came up with the obvious FACT. your a dimwit eagle85. ๐ฒ๐
eagle85 You undrestood waht I ment, Math tutors are more important for a bloke like cyst. ๐ช๐๐๐ฑ