Swans4ever wrote:AFLcrap1 wrote:I can tell you how you are full of shit.
These stories are in major papers ,on TV ,all over social media.
There are 1000s & 1000s of posts on BF about this,yet the good little Foot soldier ,after drinking Vlads Koolaid ,chants the mantra..
Nah its not even talked about.
Well you are wrong,as much as you would like to sweep it under the carpet in true AFL style it is NOT going away.
1000's of yours and RD's posts don't count - I can tell you no - no one cares anymore - on SEN EVERY caller was saying just that - just because you do doesn't mean anyone else does!
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wrong again.
I dont post at BF.
Most RL fans get banned very quickly,if they dont drink the koolaid.
Ask XMAN.
The Essingbong drug discussion board has no RL fans on it ..
SEN...Yeh just like the DT in Syd...only allow comments through that suit their agenda.
No amount of whining like a bitch can change the fact that AFL house is on the nose & being exposed for what they really are..
Those not living in the insular bubble seen through the bullshit long ago..
Then there are the Koolaid drinkers...like you.
I’ve no vendetta, but the AFL has failed miserably
JEFF KENNETT
Herald Sun
March 26, 2014 12:00AM
EVERYONE knows the AFL administration has at times been intimidators, bullies and even worse. Football journalists employed by this paper have often mentioned being on the receiving end of such abuse, as have other journalists, CEOs of AFL clubs and at times presidents.
Most people have correctly assumed the AFL Commission has allowed itself to be run by its administration and has therefore failed to provide the oversight that any board should provide.
The issues facing the AFL today are very much a result of its own making and incompetence. Last week’s interview by Tania Hird, wife of suspended Essendon coach James Hird, was ill-timed. There was no need for it before the club’s first game of the season.
President Paul Little’s comments were equally ill-advised — he should have ignored the interview as his coaches and players did with a convincing win on Friday night.
There are now two issues. One is the drug saga of which, within the AFL, Essendon is the main target. The investigation has been handled terribly by an understaffed and underqualified Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and the AFL. The most incriminating act by the AFL was its presence at ASADA interviews of Essendon players, coaches and others. It should have been independent of AFL involvement. The AFL’s attendance removed any concept of independence and gave the AFL possession of knowledge it should not have had at that time.
Of course the AFL will tell us those who attended did not pass on any of the information, but few will believe it.
The second issue was the basis of Tania Hird’s comments and it questions the credibility of the AFL Commission and administration.
Mrs Hird was apparently saying AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou rang then Essendon chairman David Evans and told him Essendon was to be named the club under substance scrutiny by ASADA. After the call, Evans allegedly returned to a meeting of club officials at his house and reported what Demetriou had conveyed. Apparently several Essendon people heard Evans’s comments.
Very shortly afterwards Evans resigned as Essendon chairman and Demetriou has repeatedly and emphatically denied he tipped off the club and denied he received a briefing from ASADA — in other words, he couldn’t pass on information he did not have.
While the AFL pursued Essendon, most attention was on James Hird and sports scientist Stephen Dank. The former could be bullied and intimidated; Dank could not. In the final hours of the AFL’s inglorious performance, Hird was threatening legal action but was apparently told if he did not accept the AFL solution — suspension from coaching for a year and withdrawal of his legal action — he would never work within the AFL again.
Hird capitulated, but the AFL pursued Essendon doctor Bruce Reid. He would not admit to the charges levelled at him by the AFL and moved to have the matter resolved in court — at which point the AFL buckled and dropped the charges. Why? Because in court the truth would have emerged. Of course, the AFL said it had only the interests of the code in mind. Bunkum! It was all about protecting its own and defending its appalling performance.
The media coverage was largely critical of Mrs Hird’s timing but the reality is that had the AFL handled this issue competently, this would have been concluded months ago. Be assured, if Stephen Dank is taken to court, the AFL’s greatest fears will be realised.
The AFL would have been better served if it had appointed an eminent jurist to hear evidence and come to conclusions under the rules of a royal commission.
It would have been better advised allowing the matter to go to court. If its claims were correct it had nothing to worry about. But now innuendo and suspicions will continue, maybe for years. The reputations of all are sullied and truth is the victim as the secrecy continues.
I have said before the AFL and the commission need a massive shake-up. The AFL hierarchy has long forgotten Australian Rules football is owned by us, club members and supporters. It is simply a custodian but has failed miserably. Some have said I have a vendetta against the AFL and some of its personalities; I don’t. I just expect higher standards of governance and a much higher acceptance of responsibility.
Have a good day.
Jeff Kennett is a former premier of Victoria
& every now & again a bit of info comes to hand that explains alot..
The "BOYS CLUB.
Evans owns a successful investment company called Evans & Partners. Guess who sits on its advisory board? Eddie McGuire and Bill Kelty. And, up until recently, John Wylie.
He is a bloke who happens to be chairman of the Australian Sports Commission and was the secret deal-breaker in this whole mess.
Wylie was drafted into negotiations by AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick and Bombers chairman Paul Little to help form the deal which Hird was forced to accept.
Also, Evans and Wylie sit on the board of the Melbourne Stars Twenty20 team, of which McGuire is president.
A question: Are platforms and boys clubs being used to protect their good mate David Evans?
Oh my..
