Storm beats Westen Sydney Academy in SG Ball match...

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Melbourne Storm  versus Western Sydney Academy in SG Ball match...

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Melbourne Storm’s SG Ball team recorded their first victory of the season on Saturday with a convincing win over the Western Sydney Academy side.

The 44-26 result should provide a good confidence boost for the young Storm side who have suffered some heart-breaking losses after dominating large periods of every game this season.

The first-half was a fairly even affair with the Academy side scoring first after some poor discipline from the Storm.

The teams then matched tries with the score locked at 10-10 before Pride Petterson-Robati scored a great try just before half-time.

This gave the Storm some momentum heading into the second-half and they soon extended the lead with a series of tries early in the period to take the score out to 44-16.

A couple of late four-pointers to the Academy side saw the game finish at 44-26 to the Storm.

The most pleasing aspect of the game was the willingness of the players to play some patient footy for the first time this season. The completion rate was up significantly on previous weeks enabling the team to build pressure on the opposition.

Some excellent tries were scored and the team should now have a belief in what they are doing on the field.

DJ Solomona and Wayne Kennedy were the best for the Storm scoring five tries between them.

Strong performances also came from Pride Petterson Robati, Adam Millgate, Tala Titi and Tremaine Jensen.

Melbourne Storm 44 (Tries: DJ Solomona 3, Wayne Kennedy 2, Dane Chang, Pride Petterson Robati, Evander Jackson; Goals: Adam Millgate 6) def. WSAS 26.

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Relief for Storm assistant-coach Steve Kearney after audit into Storm's finaces...

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Relief for Steve Kearney after audit into Storm's  finances...






Relief for Melbourne Storm assistant coach Stephen Kearney following the findings of an audit into the NRL club's salary cap rort

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The findings of an audit into the Melbourne Storm NRL salary cap rort have come as a relief to assistant coach Stephen Kearney.



Club owners News Limited have announced the Storm breached the cap by $3.87 million, more than 80 per cent higher than initially thought.



Kearney says the club now knows what it needs to do.



"As difficult as it (the audit finding) was, we know what we're dealing with now and have got to get the issue resolved."



Kearney says the circumstances have been very difficult and it has been tough dealing with a range of emotions from the players. He says the club has got to put a harrowing last few months behind them and move on.



The Storm are believed to be needing to shed just under $1.6 million of playing talent payments to be under the cap next season.









Acknowledgements: © 2010 NZCity, NewsTalkZB

Melbourne Storm stripped of NRL premierships for breaching salary cap...

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Melbourne Storm stripped of their NRL Premierships for breaching the salary cap to the tune of $1.7 million

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The Melbourne Storm have been stripped of their NRL Premierships, won in 2007 and 2009, for breaching the salary cap.



The club admits it secretly paid its players $1.7 million over the past five years, including $700,000 this year, without telling the NRL. The Storm have lost all of their eight competition points won this season and will not be awarded any more. They will have to hand back $1.1 million in prize money, as well as pay a $500,000 fine. The lost prize money will be split among the other 15 clubs.



NRL boss David Gallop says Melbourne has been operating two sets of financial books. Several people from the Storm have also been stood down from their administrative positions. Melbourne chairman Rob Moodie says he is not making any excuses. Former chief executive Brian Waldron has been named as the architect of the scam. He is now in charge of the Melbourne Rebels Super 15 team.

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Three Kiwi boys on a big jetplane over the Tasman...

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Three Kiwi boys on a big jetplane over the Tasman...



At 9am New Zealand time today three young Kiwi boys, two from the Hutt Valley and one from Taranaki, set out from Wellington International Airport for Melbourne in Australia.



From Melbourne Airport they were whisked away to the Melbourne Storm NRL Club headquarters to be welcomed and informed about what will be happening over the next six days. The boys will be staying in a flash hotel and receive three meals a day there.



One of the boys is my very talented young sportsman and rugby league playing grandson, 14 year old Pride Petterson-Ropati. Pride already has a six year contract withe the Storm, while the other two boys get their dream partially realised - a trial with the top rugby league club in Australia... and the world!



Pride will be put through some training programs to test him physically and mentally, and be given a training regime to follow back in New Zealand. He will return to Melbourne during each school holidays and be tested for his progress. He will move to Melbourne next year and will stay with a foster family and be schooled there.



Prides's future is now in his own extremely young and capable hands. It is planned for him to play under 16 year Grade football, and then progress to the Under 18 Grade. Eventually he will get the opportunity to play Under 20's and First Grade football. His contract covers a rising scale of payment during each grade.



The Melbourne Storm club will pay for all his living expenses and schooling and a weekly payment for expenses and pocket money.



The two boys who accompanied him to Melbourne will trial for similar contracts to Pride's. One of the boys is an older clubmate of his.


Acknowledgements: Peter Petterson

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Well the contract has been signed...

Well the contract has been signed for five years, and my 14 year old grandson knows the terms.

There is a sort of grading scale depending on the level he plays at. He will receive free schooling at Brisbane Grammar, a rugby league boarding school, or in Melbourne if he prefers that, and lives with a family there. I won't release the financial details, apart from saying its pretty good for his age.

To me it is like beginning an apprenticeshop that may last five years. If he is in the Melbourne Storm first grade team permanently by the end of this contract, and would be about 19 years old, they could rip up the old contract and offer him one at top rates. He has a great future in the NRL in Australia. In his contract he is asked to state what country he would like to play for eventually. Bit premature, I would have thought?

Its a long journey for a young boy and hopefully he will have the mental maturity to handle it all the way. I could never have done that. I don't think there is another boy of his age in this little country of 4.3 million people who has been given such an opportunity. Pride Petterson-Robati is his name. Good luck Pride!