22 Jul 2010

Storm drops legal case against NRL

6:08 pm on 22 July 2010

The new directors of the Melbourne Storm have withdrawn the club's legal action against the National Rugby League over their salary cap penalties.

The Storm's also paying the the NRL's legal costs and the club's lawyer Leon Zwier says the beleaguered club's all a happy family now.

The Storm's former directors were all sacked last week when the extent of the club's salary cap breaches were revealed, leaving their case in limbo.

The independent directors had been seeking a Victorian Supreme Court injunction restraining the NRL from stripping Melbourne of the 2007 and 2009 premierships and preventing them from earning points this season.

The former independent directors, Peter Maher, Rob Moodie, Petra Fawcett and Gerry Ryan, were sacked last Thursday after the release of an independent investigation into the club's salary cap rorting.