NRL acts , while the VFL does nothing

[pookus]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh what a butthurt reply! Pook can't comprehend. Clear as glass.

Bye bye, princess!

Sorry striker youve been shown to be the ignorant uneducated fuckwit that you are.Then telling lies and getting busted.Fuck off and let the adults speak

[eelofwest]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh what a butthurt reply! Pook can't comprehend. Clear as glass.

Bye bye, princess!

Sorry striker youve been shown to be the ignorant uneducated fuckwit that you are.Then telling lies and getting busted.Fuck off and let the adults speak

Ship of fools deliver humiliating day for the waddling AFL. Squirt

by: Patrick Smith
From: The Australian
February 20, 2013 12:00AM

GOT a pair of big sloppy shoes? Put 'em on. Some crazy knee-high socks and baggy pants would help. A funny wig? Whack it on. If you have a whizzing flower that squirts water, put it on your lapel. Get a little hooter if you can, too. What about a big red nose? On it goes then. Go mad with some funny make-up and learn a silly walk.

Feel like a clown? Good, because that's exactly what the AFL Commission and its administration think you are. Now you are just playing to character. Waddle, waddle, waddle. Oink, oink, oink. Squirt, squirt, squirt.

As Gillon McLachlan, the AFL's acting football manager, tried to explain the findings of the league investigation into claims Melbourne tanked in 2009, he admitted he didn't know the definition of tanking. But he thought his explanation would still be good enough to fool you. Oink. derpderp

Because whatever Melbourne did three seasons ago, it wasn't tanking. Might look like tanking, might smell like tanking, it might actually be tanking. But it is not. Not that McLachlan knows what it actually means. Tanking that is. As he admits, he hasn't got a clue. He knows for certain what isn't tanking. Like meticulously preparing a football side so that it can't win a match. You see, that's not tanking. Waddle, oink, squirt. More derp from your leaders..... =D> =D>
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No, apparently to prepare a side to lose is not to seek to lose deliberately. If that makes sense. Which it doesn't. Far from it. But it isn't tanking. Poor McLachlan had a suspicion a team could only tank on match day. Like make some questionable moves. Put in place some odd strategies.

Just like taking gallons of performance-enhancing drugs is not cheating if you don't inject on the day of competition. In fact, it is only cheating if you're seen injecting peptides into your stomach on the starting blocks. Waddle.

McLachlan became so confused about his definition of tanking that he tripped himself up. Tanking had to physically take place on the field, he said. And then said the investigation found evidence of Melbourne deliberately playing its footballers out of position. Squirt.

Don McLardy, the president of Melbourne, was no help either. Asked what was the definition of tanking, McLardy replied: "It's muddy." Only if it rains, Don. Poor old McLardy thinks his club had been "effectively cleared of tanking". Waddle. One former head coach banned from his profession for 16 weeks, the former football manager and still a Melbourne employee quarantined from footy operations for a year and a $500,000 club fine. Cleared?

How quickly the AFL has tumbled from its pedestal as the No 1 sporting code in the country. Last year it was Adelaide and the Kurt Tippett affair, which included salary cap breaches and tampering with the draft. Chief executive Steven Trigg was suspended by the AFL for six months. And Adelaide plans to re-employ him. Then comes the ASADA investigation into Essendon and other issues. And now tanking. Sorry, and now non-tanking. Squirt.

The AFL, once so sure of its ability to manage its image and brand, has lost its composure. It seems it no longer has standards, just practicalities; no longer principles, just escape routes. =D> =D> This was a humiliating day for the AFL, McLachlan and the absent chief executive Andrew Demetriou.

How did it get to this? Probably because the AFL identified the end point it wanted and desperately needed and sought a way to reach it. The end point, of course, was minimum embarrassment for its chief executive, no court action and Melbourne's reputation not so damaged that any lucrative licensing contracts would be endangered.

Thus the AFL sought to redefine the term "tanking". If it could do that, the league would soften the blow to Demetriou and his standing **** Australia's sporting officials. It would avoid possible Supreme Court questioning of its rules, regulations and power and Melbourne's probity would be intact just enough that income from its social clubs and sponsors would not disappear.

For years Demetriou infamously declared tanking did not happen, would not happen in the AFL and he gave a verbal clip to any commentator or critic who suggested it might. He also said he would run anyone caught tanking out of the sport for life. You can see his predicament. And that is why he was not present at yesterday's news conference even though the AFL had earlier in the day said he would be. That's why tanking couldn't mean tanking. No one could be charged with cheating. Waddle.

Yesterday was shambolic for the AFL. People laughed out loud as McLachlan was forced to twist the English language until it screamed for mercy. Suddenly the AFL looks ragged. Demetriou (when he's present) sounds tired. From the outside there appears to be tensions on the inside. No wonder former football operations manager Adrian Anderson did a runner in December. Who would want to be part of yesterday's foolery? Smart
move Mr Anderson... =D> =D>
But worst of all was the contempt the league showed for its football community. McLachlan looked foolish as he made a fool of you. The AFL Commission looks indecisive and defensive where once it seemed the brightest leadership group in Australian sport. Look who's waddling now.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6581463058


And that's all she wrote folks, let the cannibalism begin in AFL land..................... First Dinner service will be Mr Demetriou, then we will have Mr Mcglouglin for deserts ........

[Xman]

Another example of how the media never attack the AFL and only the NRL hey chaps?

Deluded morons!

[Striker]

I love Patrick Smith!

[eelofwest]

Bump

AFL accused of deceptive conduct during Essendon supplements scandal
By Tracey Holmes

Papers have been lodged in the Supreme Court of Victoria alleging multiple acts of misleading or deceptive conduct by the AFL during the long-running supplements saga.

The action was brought by Melbourne lawyer Jackson Taylor and also names AFL chairman Michael Fitzpatrick and chief executive Gillon McLachlan as defendants.

The Statement of Claim includes allegations that the AFL misled and deceived the public over both the integrity of the joint investigation, conducted by the AFL and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA), and the AFL's responsibilities for player health and safety.

In the two-and-a-half years since the "blackest day" in Australian sport alleged widespread use of performance enhancing drugs, it is the Essendon AFL club that the spotlight has centred on.

The 34 past and present Essendon players caught up in the investigation were all cleared by the AFL's anti-doping tribunal earlier this year, only to have their relief replaced by shock when they learned the World Anti-Doping Agency was appealing against the findings.

That appeal will be held by the international Court of Arbitration for Sport in November.

While the AFL has endeavoured to end the saga as quickly as possible the story continues to detract from the national competition.

Only two weeks ago, Essendon's coach James Hird agreed to leave the club in order to allow the team and the club to "move on" from Australia's biggest sporting controversy.

The sports scientist at the centre of the controversial supplements program at Essendon, Stephen Dank, is appealing against his lifetime ban from sport imposed by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal and is also yet to face the Court of Arbitration for Sport as part of the WADA appeal.

Today's action likely means a third season of AFL football is going to be overshadowed as the drama takes yet another turn. >

Late last year Mr Taylor urged Essendon members to push for an extraordinary general meeting and called for a retired judge or QC to review the club's handling of the saga.

At the time he told The Australian: "The club cannot go on like this...we are urging members to bring on the EGM so we can put the club on the stable footing it needs for the future."

Now Mr Taylor's attention has turned to the sport's governing body.

"Companies that act with the values and integrity the AFL claimed that it had, do so at an economic cost," he said.

"Those companies, the public and other stakeholders, are entitled to the protection of the law from companies who claim to act in ways they do not."

Mr Taylor's statement of claim runs to 32 pages and also names former CEO Andrew Demetriou alongside McLachlan and Fitzpatrick, alleging comments made in numerous media interviews and in the AFL's annual report were misleading or deceptive.

Mr Taylor suggests constant comments that Essendon 'self reported' are incorrect, and that rather the club requested an investigation "only after, and as a consequence of having received the Demetriou disclosures and the McLachlan disclosures and having been required by the AFL to request the AFL-ASADA investigation".

It is an exercise in 'he said, she said' and Mr Taylor is aware his reputation is at stake in launching such proceedings against one of this country's most powerful sporting organisations.

A separate allegation is tantamount to accusations of fraud.

Mr Taylor claims the AFL continued to offer for sale to the public AFL Silver Memberships which entitled purchasers to preferential rights to secure tickets to matches in the final series – which Essendon was on target to play in.

However, Mr Taylor claims that in June of 2013 the AFL had already determined to exclude Essendon from the finals or at least have points removed in order for them not to qualify, but continued to sell Silver Memberships including to Essendon supporters.

The announcement that Essendon was to be stripped of points and miss the final series was not made until August 2013. Withholding such information is alleged to be in breach of Australian consumer law.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-02/a ... al/6743954



NRL came out smelling of roses through all this while the AFL are still in the trenches holding a bag of Poo...........

[AFLcrap1]

Yep .
NRL Hands off approach ,let ASADA do what it had to ...accept the penalty .

AFL
Lol lol lol lol
Call in favours ..muddy the waters ...try to manage the outcome .
Lol lol

Still having its name dragged through the mud .
Still no decision .
Lol

[eelofwest]

Victorian lawyer suing AFL over supplements saga

A lawyer has launched legal action against the AFL, its chairman and its chief executive alleging misconduct during the supplements saga.

Jackson Taylor filed a writ with the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday in which he claims senior AFL figures knew Essendon was being investigated by the Australian Crime Commission before the club self-reported in February 2013.

The writ alleges the club only requested the AFL and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority conduct a joint investigation into the club after being alerted to the ACC investigation.

Comment has been sought from the AFL.

Mr Taylor is a lawyer who previously urged Essendon members to push for an extraordinary general meeting at the club in order to investigate the handling of the saga.

Now, he is focussing his attention on the handling of the saga by the code’s governing body, alleging that former CEO Andrew Demetriou, current CEO Gillon McLachlan and chairman Mike Fitzpatrick made comments both in the media and the AFL’s annual report that were misleading.

“Companies that act with the values and integrity the AFL claimed that it had, do so at an economic cost,” Taylor said.

“Those companies, the public and other stakeholders, are entitled to the protection of the law from companies who claim to act in ways they do not.”

http://www.theroar.com.au/2015/09/02/vi ... ents-saga/


The Circus goes on and on and on......... :_<> :_<>

[AFLcrap1]

But but but
Swines told me no one talks about it anymore .

Lol .