The Sydney Roosters have been fined by the NRL for breaching the salary cap.
The NRL on Thursday announced it had fined the Roosters $36,070 because the club overspent on their supplementary list and training wage – tipping them over the salary cap by $38,356 for the 2024 season.
The league recognised that the breach is at the lower end of the scale but stated it would not make the Tricolours exempt from a fine.
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The NRL proposed that the sum should be applied “to the club’s future supplementary list and training wage salary cap calculations”.
Roosters players react to a Knights try. Getty
The Melbourne Storm also received a fine of $25,000 due to errors in their processes around team selections on at least two occasions in the 2025 season.
Those team selection errors were in relation to a player on a training contract.
Train and trial players earn around $1200 per week. They receive an additional $1800 for every game they play in first grade.
That additional money must be accounted for within the team’s salary cap.
Train and trial players can also not be selected until round 11 to feature in first grade, unless they have been approved to play earlier by the NRL.
A total of $12,500 of the fine for the team selection breach will be suspended for two years.
Shawn Blore in action for the Storm. Getty
To add further concern to the list of problems at the Storm, the club was also informed that Shawn Blore would be facing a sanction due to his off-field actions.
Blore plead guilty to common assault following an incident that unfolded in Sydney in July last year.
He appeared in court in October and received a six-month good behaviour bond.
At the time of the hearing, the Storm said that the back-rower had “fully cooperated with NSW Police throughout the investigation” and was remorseful.
The NRL acknowledged that due to the time of year, Blore and the Storm will be given an extended opportunity to respond to their breach notices, as will the Roosters.
The breach notices were announced shortly after four player managers received suspensions and fines for their own respective rule breaches.