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[@npd6225]

This guys Dad is always trying to be in the news. 😂

[@gavinringland1362]

Ringland. Boys

[@laugh736]

They’re investigating the wrong team lol, go down to the chooks and have a geez at their third party deals 👀

[@wormytom]

you shut your mowf

[@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth]

Came here to say that.

[@gustaaf1892]

My thoughts exactly. You can throw Souths in as well. Wighton going there on $350k per season less than he could get at the Raiders reeks to high heaven.

[@shayandaryan]

Third Party Deals Are Allowed....

[@maxfish4770]

They all push their luck, some are smarter at it than others

[@markbph2336]

how about the NRL investigate the ROOSTERS....? +15 years of having more than their fair share of the best players at cheaper prices...!

[@markbph2336]

leave the knights alone..... whatever the knights are doing wrong.... times it by 10 plus for the roosters...!

[@tango18gudvibes]

CHOOKS 100% CROOKS

[@gavinringland1362]

No more. ROOSTER

[@tinin7187]

Forget this. Pls investigate Val Holmes for match fixing over the weekend bc wtf was that performance

[@fryyz9674]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@southpacificpyrex1708]

If he scored I would turned $1 into 4K 😅🤣

[@AnthonyWaikato]

He saving his pennies for the "Roaches boi" BOOM!!

[@9ersbulldogblackcat]

ROOOOOOOOOOSTERS…. Geez these guys cap is 20mill

[@Dude-etiquette]

NRL should investigate roosters

[@greg-jp8km]

Why?

[@Knights2023]

​@@greg-jp8kmRead all the comments

[@greg-jp8km]

@@Knights2023 I have. Proof? Don’t you think the roosters would be by far the most heavily scrutinized club? You have nothing. A highly successful club that uses 3rd party agreements to their fullest. Nothing wrong with that!

[@sachad964]

they should be investigating roosters deal with Fifita, $300k for the 4th season, sure they can pay him that but on the books he should be worth 1 Mil

[@user-mg1p]

No there 6th 9th party deal's 😮

[@elrey8876]

*PONGA* has concussion worries, niggling injuries, off-field public toilet antics, and meddling management. And his X-factor has never equated to a premiership for the Knights. Newcastle would be better off letting him go and starting a rebuild with a few young talents on less $$$.

[@maxfish4770]

Been saying this for years, pay him out and move on. We paid massive overs for a winger and let him run the show

[@tango18gudvibes]

Chooks!!! 100%

[@nickalan5539]

Yeah the new fullback Dave Armstrong is playing really well, Knights would be better off spending the money on developing local talent instead of overpaying f**kwit Queenslanders like Ponga.

[@llamasquad87]

Lol looking at Newcastle when the roosters clearly breaches this every year lol 😂😂😂😂

[@manmountain3205]

Should be investigating chooks unbelievable, seems like every player there is earning a mil a season😂😂

[@HeftyReefs]

Yeh im sure fifita got a new pent house unit in bondi under the table

[@smelly_bum1234]

Well if you do your research instead of crying it doesn’t take long to find how much each of roosters players are earning at the club.. you also forget that a lot of those players are recruited for less money compared to what other clubs offer them.. David Fifita literally turned down an offer from the 3x premiers that offered him more money than the chooks did 🤷‍♀️

[@daleviker5884]

When they play there they are earnings peanuts, because 30 players all agree to take unders to play for the greatest club in world sport. But when they leave, they free up millions under the salary cup. Hands up anyone who is not a Roosters fan but believes they're legit.

[@gustaaf1892]

The NRL will never take Nick Politis on, particularly as he practically runs the show.

[@blackrose.9927]

​@@gustaaf1892Yeah it would be good if the NRL had some balls, That guy has ruined the game for the sake of his own team. They're not even in the Top 3 Big Teams in Sydney 😂 They're a small team with copious amounts of money !

[@dom3335]

National Roosters League

[@davidanthony6222]

Oh noooooo they're gonna strip Newcastle knights of the spoons

[@maxfish4770]

No way, we earnt them fair and square

[@user-mg1p]

@@maxfish4770 They will probably strip Melbourne. For the chocolate coated dinky pops they hid 🤣

[@andrewlonge4494]

roosters brake the salary cap every year ! nothing but silence?

[@chris07081]

The Roosters have never been caught exceeding the cap, if you have proof come forward.

[@daleviker5884]

@@chris07081 Nobody is ever "caught". Every salary cap breach has only been uncovered because of whistleblowers. So if a club only has one or two people who know the whole picture, and they are looked after, then it's impossible for them to be caught. The fact that Easts have never been "caught" doesn't mean anything. But every fan can see their squad and do simple maths and see that it comes nowhere near fitting under the so-called salary cap.

[@jacobfierro1749]

@@daleviker5884 storm got caught

[@dddan7268]

imagine breaching salary cap and still not cracking top 8

[@TheShepdawg9]

...but he's not playing. Lol

[@dddan7268]

@@TheShepdawg9 they was even shitter with him first 5-6 rounds

[@coreydoolan9979]

If you watched the video, they haven’t breached salary cap whatsoever, kalyn wasn’t paid a third party sponsor and third party sponsors are completely legal

[@TheShepdawg9]

@@dddan7268 the breach is from 2 years ago anyway

[@cockramdass745]

@@dddan7268imagine being somebody that absolutely nobody knows or cares about like yourself , having a cry in comments cuz you have nothing better to do so you write this garbage. legit dirt compared to him time to grow up and not be a loser

[@benc3214]

The NRL are a joke every man and his dog knows what goes on at the Roosters, but hey nothing to see there 😂

[@jamesflinty7737]

You mean the Sydney roosters special

[@eulogist8120]

They’re a better team with him for sure, but they’d be much better off with that space in the cap the way the teams going, Armstrong is going great, they could upgrade some players and hold out for another solid 800-900k player

[@papaluskask999]

NRL approved 3rd party deal? WTF

[@user-mg1p]

What about the brown paper bags deal's Paul Kent said was going on.🤣

[@gracesaulog]

Really? With Easts signing rep players for fun? Okay then.

[@brettstewart420]

Manu, JWH, Suallii for a start

[@wortho1234]

Keary^

[@daleviker5884]

@@brettstewart420 Manu is only leaving for half a season. Suallii is a winger. JWH and Keary fair enough. But when we are constantly told they play for less money to be at the roosters, how can their departure free up millions? It des not add up. I challenged a couple of roosters loudmouths the other day to list the whole squad and fit it within the $11.5m and there was just the sound of crickets.

[@blackrose.9927]

Yeah exactly "Easts" Eastern Suburbs a Small Club with no where to grow. So it makes sense that they cheat 😂 They call themselves Sydney so it makes them look huge but any other Sydney team could call themselves Sydney if they wanted like Canterbury and Balmain did in the Super League war ! Easts were Sydney City which is what they should be called or Eastern Sydney !

[@chris07081]

@@daleviker5884 Manu is not confirmed to be leaving for half a season, as of right now he is gone indefinitely. If you think you have something exposing the Roosters come forward, you seem to be smarter than the whole NRL integrity unit and are somehow more knowledgeable about the details and intricacies of players contracts. If the cheating is as rampant and widespread at the Roosters as random people online seem to think, how has not one person in over 100 years come forward with some details? You think this is the most leak proof organisation in the world?

[@fryyz9674]

So why go public if they aren’t sure yet? Nrl killing their own game lmao

[@AnthonyWaikato]

Journo's talk so much smack to keep themselves employed, this guy always adds his spin to lack of info. Least Kenty kept it real and fronted up, using his head to get to the real story😂

[@nickalan5539]

Khunty for PM 👍

[@retroray58warby98]

Using his head for someone else’s punching bag, lol.

[@clairehabib5915]

SPOT ON, MAKE UP LIES AND THEN SIT THERE TALKING ABOUT THE LIES THEY INVENTED

[@joshuajordan2209]

No other club would want him with the injuries he has he’s injured more than he plays

[@jaycee571]

Roosters????

[@jvvoid]

What does this mean for my Supercoach scores back then??

[@flynnleung-nicholson6879]

Ponga -> Roosters

[@maxfish4770]

I hope so and I go for Newy

[@user-mg1p]

According to Google all teams have rorted the salary cap. Time to reinstate Melbourne's rightfully won premierships.

[@TheNewcastleKnight]

So. That the hell does this have to do with the Newcastle Knights? This bloke is making up speculation.

[@Knights2023]

The one guy in here that has brains "this has nothing to do with the club"

[@user-mg1p]

We are not allowed to talk about it.

[@eamongleeson5743]

Chammas must of watched Southpark earlier and is doing his best Impersonation of the Chewbacca defence. He made no sense whatsoever.

[@blackrose.9927]

Well how ironic 😂 I just read it ... Seems the Chooks are after Ponga as well ... Wtf ??? What a joke !!!

[@Gamminn]

I love how this is on yt before it airs on 9

[@eddyrizk5057]

It's on earlier on the 9now App

[@Gamminn]

@@eddyrizk5057arnt you a gymp knowing that

[@DanielJeudy-jm9xx]

Do the NRL expect us to believe all the third party deals at the Roosters are made at arms length? Please. They brag about the investment opportunities and after footy opportunities they provide to players as a reason why they have a team worth 5 million more than other clubs. The game is broken.

[@maxfish4770]

They throw money at the juniors too, buying kids from QLD

[@blackrose.9927]

Do you reckon that they are Targeting Newcastle to take the spotlight of the Chooks signing Fifita ? 🤔 I think something like this has happened before 😂

[@bangfury]

Ponga looks uninterested this year. He’s turned out to be a bit of an ordinary buy for Knights.

[@maxwilliam5240]

Too much money for Mr. Concussion where the knight trophy

[@kyexuereb3896]

forget investigating the knights investigate the roosters they have to be over the salary cap

[@mitchellcampion3880]

The NRL have denied investigating this? What’s the story about then? 😂

[@jackohere1878]

Why are third party deals even allowed is a question that needs answering by the NRL who claim the salary cap "evens" the playing field.. Make ALL third parties agreements public so at least fans know the true value of their roster verses every clubs roster but of course that will expose the salary "cap" as a badly flawed system. It will also make losing to some teams less hurtful when fans know their opposition roster is being paid millions more hence attracting the best talent. While third party agreements are allowed clubs with access to rich third party deals will almost always reign supreme.

[@markhayman-ph1ir]

Well he definitely has not earned his contract's worth

[@michaelboyce7079]

Gould is dead right when he says that people shouldn't be "jumping to conclusions too quickly." Just take a look at the bloke who is trying to beat this story up. It's the same "journalist" who, just a few weeks ago presented a scoop of a story about Latrell Mitchell not wanting to play State of Origin anymore. A little judicious digging by Gould and others revealed the story to be a complete fabrication by that "journalist!" He greatly reminds me of the member of the British intelligence community, during the "Spycatcher" trial, who, when accused of lying, said he wasn't lying - he was just being economical with the truth!

[@SearchFourthetruth]

They are investigating the knights ? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 They are looking at the wrong club.

[@DrayDrayn]

I beat the bots lol 1️⃣

[@gengarpokemon7731]

🤣🤣🤣

[@realosty]

I'm personally very happy Ponga didn't come to the Dolphins! Full of drama, injuries and Ponga is all about Ponga! Cya pal!

[@maxfish4770]

As a newy fan I'm disappointed he didn't go

[@llamasquad87]

Just looking for a story

[@billyburroo]

Gus the third party guru

[@neillewis785]

IF ANY THIRD PARTY DEAL IS PAID TO KEEP A PLAYER AT THE CLUB ,IT'S ILLEGAL SURELY???

[@Knights2023]

So many clubs do it

[@user-mg1p]

Not at the Broncos or Roosters it's only the Storm that's not allowed! They win too much.

[@42er90]

Nrl approved 3rd party who didnt pay.....crickey this is going to interesting to see how this plays out all the hallmarks of a massive blowup ensuing.....

[@ronaldmusk4996]

Who is the lucky guy helping KP in the toilet while he is injured?😅😅

[@clairehabib5915]

YOU STILL HORNY ABOUT THAT, JEALOUS ARE YOU

[@peterfoster841]

so who acted as the third party

[@maxfish4770]

The local brothel

[@nigelziegler2338]

Chammas says so much but nothing at all

[@Alekosdw]

Armstrong might go past this guy

[@peterkempe6026]

Worst buy they've ever made, 😂😂😂

[@VaiHousehold]

Hahahaha wow. They just found out? There are so many third party deals for these top players 😂 property, cars, school fees….these clubs are not doing anything illegal. If a company wants to “give” to a player, it is what it is. But this third party tried to do cash handling. Haha

[@buddysally886]

He’s got enough money

[@user-dm9su6nt4e]

Knights won x2 Games without him. Why overrated?

[@craigrobinson4953]

The way David Armstrong is playing at the moment, do the Knights need to keep Kalyn.

[@48Ender48]

How people quickly forget the previous season. He wasn't even playing badly this season. The team just wasn't clicking.

[@craigrobinson4953]

@@48Ender48 He is a great player but if Armstrong consistently plays well at fullback, they can move Kalyn to the centres if Gagai leaves next season or let Kalyn explore options at other clubs. This can free money up to look at buying another right centre if Gagai leaves. They can sign players like Lucas and Armstrong to longer term contracts.

[@IsaacRapana]

Roosters?????

[@papaluskask999]

D'OH

[@troyobrien4844]

Can we get some decent journalism in Rugby League? Mercy? 👎🏼

[@garryryan5358]

Why didn't harry fly the plane he is a pilot in his bitter twisted world of lies and mistruths

[@Ari-Gatto]

Imagine trying to be the rooster and getting caught! oh wait....

[@tommygunn8355]

His dad should mind his own business!

[@dunit4472]

All these roosters cry babies lol .

[@deanmatters5739]

Kayla hides behind daddy. Weak

[@gengarpokemon7731]

pongas overrated and been for a while. knights don't need him

[@crycrcfyhf8862]

Definitely isn’t overrated.

[@gracesaulog]

The Knights would literally run last without him.

[@Newyknights]

@@gracesaulogwon 3 from 3 without him this year?

[@sydfieldmasmafua4888]

@@Newyknights wining against not so good teams 😂😂😂

[@Newyknights]

@@sydfieldmasmafua4888 dolphins are in the top 4 are they not

[@Tre_Vor194]

Knight's do just as well without him, should spend that money elsewhere. Knights could be a top 4 team consistently. Imagine having your dad come in and snitch on the club when his already on unreal money. When Ponga is not playing the chemistry the knights have is incredible. Don't get me wrong he is a great player but not worth that money and not made for the knights. Anyway please investigate the Roosters, especially with them about to sign David Fifita. Ponga would suit a team like Melbourne where the playmakers run thru the centre ready for an offload but his gonna have to halve his wage and we all know Ponga loves the $$$ more then footy.

[@user-bq6ye2zy5t]

NRL, is the definition of bogan… world class athletes, yet have to negotiate for peanuts.. third rate rugby players make more..😅

[@88-V-..-A-..-N-88]

This comment is the definition of “hypocritical bogan”.

[@gavinringland1362]

STROM. AND. TITANS. MARKING. North SYDNEY. BEARS