The Bulldogs were stripped of 37 points and fined A$500,000 ($275,000/EUR277,000) after it admitted exceeding the A$3.5million ($1.9m/B2m) ceiling on player payments by A$600,000 ($327,000/B335,000) in 2001 and A$400,000 ($218,000/B223,000) this season.
The NRL yesterday rejected the team's plea that the penalty be reduced. The Bulldogs subsequently said they didn't want to cause further disruption to the season by taking the matter further.
"The game is bigger than the person or any club," Bulldogs' chief executive Steve Mortimer told reporters. "We were just not going to get anywhere."
