{"id":55921,"date":"2021-04-09T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55921"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:58:28","slug":"smith-refuses-to-walk-away-from-stripped-premierships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55921","title":{"rendered":"Smith refuses to walk away from stripped premierships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Storm legend Cameron Smith says his former club and teammates are deserving of the two premierships that were later stripped following Melbourne&#x27;s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/salary-cap-breach\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"salary cap breach.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">salary cap breach.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Storm had the book thrown at them in 2010 for cheating the salary cap by an estimated $1.7 million over five years, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/former-ceo-david-gallop-responds-to-cameron-smiths-salary-cap-criticism\/a65fd959-8263-4e2d-9370-592db791aecd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"with former NRL CEO David Gallop hitting the club with a substantial punishment.\">with former NRL CEO David Gallop hitting the club with a substantial punishment<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The NRL fined Melbourne $1.1 million and stripped the club of their 2007 and 2009 premierships, plus three minor premierships.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to guests at a lunch in Melbourne today, Smith said he believed the club still deserves credit for the two stripped premierships due to the work and commitment put in during those years.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d255125f-c92c-4a6a-a1f0-cf368ef51fef\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d255125f-c92c-4a6a-a1f0-cf368ef51fef\" alt=\" Cameron Smith\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We trained harder and we wanted it more,&quot; he told attendees at a Melbourne lunch.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They&#x27;re still premierships to me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who&#x27;s technically just a three-time premiership winner following success in 2012, 2017 and 2020, then joked he continues to wear his rings on at home, but doubled down that he rightfully deserves all five.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I still have the premiership rings at home and put them on every now on again,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They&#x27;re mine, I&#x27;ve got five.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Melbourne Storm legend Cameron Smith says his former club and teammates are deserving of the two premierships that were later stripped following Melbourne&#x27;s infamous salary <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55921\" title=\"Smith refuses to walk away from stripped premierships\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55924,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55921\/revisions\/55924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}