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NRL Side Parramatta Ordered To Undertake Governance Reform

The National Rugby League has "moved to end years of political acrimony at Parramatta by warning the club it will be docked premiership points unless it undertakes governance reform" as part of a series of sanctions "related to salary cap breaches" stemming back to the '13 season, according to Brent Read of THE AUSTRALIAN. As the Eels received legal advice over the "prospects of appealing against penalties imposed by the NRL" -- the most severe a A$525,000 ($414,250) fine -- the governing body "outlined its desire to end the instability that has blighted Parramatta." Although the Eels "self-reported the irregularities," NRL CEO Dave Smith revealed the club had been given "several warnings that it needed to get its salary cap in order." Smith also revealed the club had "become salary cap compliant only this season," helped significantly by Jarryd Hayne's decision to leave the Eels to pursue a career in the NFL. The breaches for '14 "stretch across all four" of the game's salary caps -- the "first time a club had been found to have breached all four levels." In total, the breaches totaled A$436,000, including an "additional amount related to the purchase of a car" from former player Fuifui Moimoi by the Parramatta Leagues Club in '13. It is understood the NRL has "been in talks with Parramatta for several months, but Eels officials were caught off guard by the size of the fine and the prospect of losing competition points" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 5/22). In Sydney, Chris Barrett reported the Eels, under new management following the election of a board led by premiership winner Steve Sharp in '13, told the NRL of their salary cap concerns for '14 that year and "disclosed a number of breaches in a pre-season statutory declaration." However, "their failure to then heed the warnings and the advice from League Central has seen them hit hard by penalties." The club's second-tier issues last year center on "payments that continued to be made to players after they had left the club, a predicament that came to light last July." Eels CEO Scott Seward said then that their cap problems had "restricted their recruitment plans." Seward: "We're probably still compromised in 2015 and we're only really coming out of it in 2016" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 5/21).

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