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The AFL administration, lauded for its financial acumen and expansionary zeal, ended the season with an array of problems - some of its own making.

The long and still unresolved investigation into alleged tanking by Melbourne was embarrassing for AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou, particularly given he had often said he believed the practice did not exist. Some concluded that Demetriou's failure to recognise tanking - clubs losing games to improve their position in the draft - had emboldened clubs to do so.


Adelaide's payments to star forward Kurt Tippett outside the salary cap caused further embarrassment, with the AFL's seemingly soft penalties, including a six-month penalty for disgraced Crows chief executive Stephen Trigg, seen as a slap on the wrist.

Particularly after Trigg, who had pleaded guilty, subsequently attempted to downplay his wrongdoing. The widespread belief at club level that there is a problem with recreational drugs has also called into question the AFL's controversial ''three strikes'' policy.

Many clubs feel that the AFL's generally low figures on drug use do not square with their own experiences.

Accordingly, for the first time, both the AFL Commission and Demetriou have come under close scrutiny.




Quotes: The Tweet

''Kurt gets 11 matches and fresh for finals plus multi mill contract to the swans. I got pissed and lost my career. #wellplayedKurt #winning.'' @brendanfevola

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Lettuce leaf anyone..........




Melbourne great David Schwarz hopes any penalty that might flow from the AFL's tanking investigation will not "cripple" the club.

The AFL is expected to serve the Demons with evidence gained from its five-month probe into their list management in 2009.

While Melbourne could be hit with heavy fines or loss of draft picks, there is mounting belief the AFL would prefer to penalise individuals, rather than the club, if it is found guilty of deliberately losing games under former coach Dean Bailey.


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stand by for more feather thrashings from the VFL in 2013

FMD
what a farce

VFL officially a disgrace

So youre claiming lenient treatment before its handed down?

What a surprise!

Xman wrote:

So youre claiming lenient treatment before its handed down?

What a surprise!

with the VFL's track record of leniency ... its a sure bet

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

So youre claiming lenient treatment before its handed down?

What a surprise!

with the VFL's track record of leniency ... its a sure bet

The nRL's idea of a punishment is to allow a club that's been well over the salary cap for years to continue to be succesful and win a premiership 2 years later.

nRL... NO integrity.

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

So youre claiming lenient treatment before its handed down?

What a surprise!

with the VFL's track record of leniency ... its a sure bet

The nRL's idea of a punishment is to allow a club that's been well over the salary cap for years to continue to be succesful and win a premiership 2 years later.

nRL... NO integrity.

the NRL dismantled the Storm with punishments 10 times harsher then anything the VFL has done ... or will ever do
but .... they won the comp 2 years later anyway... because they are this nations BEST football franchise
no side in any code in this country comes near them in terms of onfield consistency. =D> =D> =D>

the VFL haven't punished the buddgies at all for 2013
& will tickle the sides who have been found to be tanking .... on the butt , a few of these & declare .. our dopey fans will forget about it in 5 minutes
just throw a sherrin in front of them & yell.. bawwwwllllllllllll

& the f sticks won't remember what the issue was in the first place

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

with the VFL's track record of leniency ... its a sure bet

The nRL's idea of a punishment is to allow a club that's been well over the salary cap for years to continue to be succesful and win a premiership 2 years later.

nRL... NO integrity.

the NRL dismantled the Storm with punishments 10 times harsher then anything the VFL has done ... or will ever do
but .... they won the comp 2 years later anyway... because they are this nations BEST football franchise
no side in any code in this country comes near them in terms of onfield consistency. =D> =D> =D>

the VFL haven't punished the buddgies at all for 2013
& will tickle the sides who have been found to be tanking .... on the butt , a few of these & declare .. our dopey fans will forget about it in 5 minutes
just throw a sherrin in front of them & yell.. bawwwwllllllllllll

& the f sticks won't remember what the issue was in the first place

Retrospective punishments. Pathetic

If the nRL had dealt with the Storm properly and taken away their best players who obviously were the ones being paid huge amounts, then they would not have been so succesful. But no integrity nRL knew that this would practically kill the Storm as one year outside of the 8 will cut their crowds in half.

Xman wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

The nRL's idea of a punishment is to allow a club that's been well over the salary cap for years to continue to be succesful and win a premiership 2 years later.

nRL... NO integrity.

the NRL dismantled the Storm with punishments 10 times harsher then anything the VFL has done ... or will ever do
but .... they won the comp 2 years later anyway... because they are this nations BEST football franchise
no side in any code in this country comes near them in terms of onfield consistency. =D> =D> =D>

the VFL haven't punished the buddgies at all for 2013
& will tickle the sides who have been found to be tanking .... on the butt , a few of these & declare .. our dopey fans will forget about it in 5 minutes
just throw a sherrin in front of them & yell.. bawwwwllllllllllll

& the f sticks won't remember what the issue was in the first place

Retrospective punishments. Pathetic

yes I agree ..... punishing the galahs in 2014 ... albeit barely at all .. for offences committed in 2012 & prior
is quite pathetic of the VFL
quite pathetic indeed ... good to see even a dickhead like marcus can see this

Stewie wrote:

If the nRL had dealt with the Storm properly and taken away their best players who obviously were the ones being paid huge amounts, then they would not have been so succesful. But no integrity nRL knew that this would practically kill the Storm as one year outside of the 8 will cut their crowds in half.

the Storm players have every right to choose to take less money & play where ever the F they choose
this isn't the VFL that runs an illegal draft that its players are too gutless to challenge

this is the NRL , & our players have b@lls
if the NRL had told players they had to leave the Storm ... the NRL would have been in a Federal industrial court 5 minutes later for restraint of trade .. & they'd have lost.



F me ... what a jibbering know nothing half wit you are

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

If the nRL had dealt with the Storm properly and taken away their best players who obviously were the ones being paid huge amounts, then they would not have been so succesful. But no integrity nRL knew that this would practically kill the Storm as one year outside of the 8 will cut their crowds in half.

the Storm players have every right to choose to take less money & play where ever the F they choose
this isn't the VFL that runs an illegal draft that its players are too gutless to challenge

this is the NRL , & our players have b@lls
if the NRL had told players they had to leave the Storm ... the NRL would have been in a Federal industrial court 5 minutes later for restraint of trade .. & they'd have lost.



F me ... what a jibbering know nothing half wit you are

You delusional dick head. If the nRL had balls they would have made the Storm cut one of their top 3 paid players, as obviously the amount they were getting at the cheats would have been much more than any other club. But no, zero integrity nRL lets the Storm off lightly and the year after they make the prelim and following that they win the grand final. Some punishment

What a disgrace that league is.

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

If the nRL had dealt with the Storm properly and taken away their best players who obviously were the ones being paid huge amounts, then they would not have been so succesful. But no integrity nRL knew that this would practically kill the Storm as one year outside of the 8 will cut their crowds in half.

the Storm players have every right to choose to take less money & play where ever the F they choose
this isn't the VFL that runs an illegal draft that its players are too gutless to challenge

this is the NRL , & our players have b@lls
if the NRL had told players they had to leave the Storm ... the NRL would have been in a Federal industrial court 5 minutes later for restraint of trade .. & they'd have lost.



F me ... what a jibbering know nothing half wit you are

You delusional dick head. If the nRL had balls they would have made the Storm cut one of their top 3 paid players, as obviously the amount they were getting at the cheats would have been much more than any other club. But no, zero integrity nRL lets the Storm off lightly and the year after they make the prelim and following that they win the grand final. Some punishment

What a disgrace that league is.

what a bilthering F wit we have here folks
but what else would one expect from an uneducated bogan from the housing comission ghetto ... that is poort poweroutage

what would an illiterate gimp know of complex industrial law , & how an employer can infringe on ones rights as a worker
but of course
he follows a sport that infringes on the rights of workers every day ... breaks Australian industrial law every day
but thankfully for the VFL.... its players are weedy gutless shits who cop the serfdom forced on them

Imagine the NRL telling Storm players ( who were found to not have been complicit in the offences ) where they would or would not play
they would not cop that .... & the law would be on their side , the NRL would have known this ... Gallop is a lawyer afterall
NRL players ....men, gutsy & free

VFL players ... weedy lil boy bitches who do anything they're told


truly a disgrace ... tis the VFL

lol because every player was unaware that the team was way over the cap

If the nRL wanted to be taken seriously, a) they should have acted straight away and not wait a year, and b) they should have made sure the Storm were properly punished and not be successful again the year after they were punished. Most nRL fans are pissed off that the Storm have already made a prelim and won a GF since being punished, those people all opening their eyes and realising the punishments weren't meant to weaken them in the future like a proper punishment should. But then again most nRL fans are smarter than you and know that the integrity of that comp is fucking woeful.

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

the NRL dismantled the Storm with punishments 10 times harsher then anything the VFL has done ... or will ever do
but .... they won the comp 2 years later anyway... because they are this nations BEST football franchise
no side in any code in this country comes near them in terms of onfield consistency. =D> =D> =D>

the VFL haven't punished the buddgies at all for 2013
& will tickle the sides who have been found to be tanking .... on the butt , a few of these & declare .. our dopey fans will forget about it in 5 minutes
just throw a sherrin in front of them & yell.. bawwwwllllllllllll

& the f sticks won't remember what the issue was in the first place

Retrospective punishments. Pathetic

yes I agree ..... punishing the galahs in 2014 ... albeit barely at all .. for offences committed in 2012 & prior
is quite pathetic of the VFL
quite pathetic indeed ... good to see even a dickhead like marcus can see this

You clearly don't know what retrospective means. The crows lose two years of draft picks which will affect them for years to come.

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

the Storm players have every right to choose to take less money & play where ever the F they choose
this isn't the VFL that runs an illegal draft that its players are too gutless to challenge

this is the NRL , & our players have b@lls
if the NRL had told players they had to leave the Storm ... the NRL would have been in a Federal industrial court 5 minutes later for restraint of trade .. & they'd have lost.



F me ... what a jibbering know nothing half wit you are

You delusional dick head. If the nRL had balls they would have made the Storm cut one of their top 3 paid players, as obviously the amount they were getting at the cheats would have been much more than any other club. But no, zero integrity nRL lets the Storm off lightly and the year after they make the prelim and following that they win the grand final. Some punishment

What a disgrace that league is.

what a bilthering F wit we have here folks
but what else would one expect from an uneducated bogan from the housing comission ghetto ... that is poort poweroutage

what would an illiterate gimp know of complex industrial law , & how an employer can infringe on ones rights as a worker
but of course
he follows a sport that infringes on the rights of workers every day ... breaks Australian industrial law every day
but thankfully for the VFL.... its players are weedy gutless shits who cop the serfdom forced on them

Imagine the NRL telling Storm players ( who were found to not have been complicit in the offences ) where they would or would not play
they would not cop that .... & the law would be on their side , the NRL would have known this ... Gallop is a lawyer afterall
NRL players ....men, gutsy & free

VFL players ... weedy lil boy bitches who do anything they're told


truly a disgrace ... tis the VFL

=D> =D> =D> Well played Raider well played.

Even Fevola thinks its a joke.........................

AFLL

Australian Football Lettuce League...............