I think the main reason the Storm have so many haters is because of the absolutely disgusting cheating that went on at the club. The day they had their premierships stripped i was almost as happy as watching my team win the grand final. There is also the fact that all their feeder clubs are in QLD and they have no homegrown talent while other clubs have great setups in their local area to develop players from when the are juniors. But yeah i hate them due to the fact that they so blatantly cheated and were millions of dollars over the cap, and i find it hard to believe the players who received such huge extra payments were clueless to it all. Another thing is that their winning culture was built when they were playing with illegal teams. I personally find it unfair that they were allowed to continue with their combination of Smith/Cronk/Slater which was built at a time when they were excessively over the cap. If it was up to me they would have been kicked out of the competition forever. I'm sure they wouldn't have been missed too much as no one actually plays rugby league in Melbourne, and as you can see from the grand final crowd they don't exactly have the biggest fan base.