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Yes I’ve read it. It’s not bad, but it is bleak reading if you value having a shred of confidence in the integrity of the league. Consistent themes throughout the book are: 1. Individuals or groups being forced to take the fall for the league. 2. “Facts” shaped to fit the preferred outcome of...

**** me this club makes it hard to support them. One thing after another.

Completely on the money. The hype around the bulldogs “fairytale” was over the top and undoubtedly influenced the umpiring and therefore the outcome of the Grand Final and also the GWS vs Bulldogs Prelim. Of course we all love an underdog story, but the problem is this kind of thing makes it...

Couldn’t care less about what he’s like as a bloke. As a footy fan however I’m pretty damn concerned that AFL House changed the rules on the salary cap to help Collingwood out. Why the special treatment?

Worked for the dogs, so probably yes.

So payments outside the cap were actually AFL sanctioned in this case, but they did so secretly. Oh yeah, this seems fine and completely not like preferential treatment for a big four Melbourne club when we have recent precedents in Franklin and Boyd’s payments needing to be in the cap even in...

Mate we’ve had more investigations than seasons recently, some justified but others not. My point is they can’t wait to jump on something for the Crows but other clubs they don’t want to look into it. They launched an investigation into this FFS. Based on no more evidence than Malthouse’s sour...

Either way it would be good to know. If Collingwood have been allowed to pay a player outside the cap, there will be 17 other teams wanting to know how they can do the same. Or is it only ok when certain teams do it? I’m not calling for sanctions per se, just some consistency in terms of the...

When asked about it on Friday, Gil said it is very rare for exemptions to be granted and he had not heard about it being outside the cap. Certainly doesn’t seem like it’s been AFL sanctioned!

Suspect we’re essentially on the same page here. As a supporter of a club who has had the media and the league jump on any faint whiff of a misdemeanour, it is very frustrating to see situations treated so differently, seemingly depending on which club it is in question. Undermines the...

So in this case the player has confessed.

Trouble is it appears that some get penalised for that but others don’t.

I have no idea what happened, but the player in question has stated he was paid outside of the salary cap. Surely that deserves a look. I’ll say it again, Adelaide would be and have been investigated for less, and threatened with draft sanctions on the league’s official website for less. Should...

Any chance that his assertions of being paid outside the salary cap gets investigated, or anything more than a passing mention from the Vic centric media? Adelaide would (and have) been investigated, dragged through the ringer and threatened with draft sanctions from the league’s official...

Looking forward to AFL House deciding this is all ok, and then launching an investigation with the aim of proving it.

Adelaide fan checking in. I for one am not suggesting anything of the sort. As a supporter, the number of stuff ups from the club in recent years is nothing short of embarrassing and makes you question what your membership dollars are going towards. All I ask is that the league treat the...

The players absolutely did the wrong thing and the club has been penalised very harshly. You can debate the magnitude of the penalty and whether it should be from the soft cap or not, but it is what it is. Surely then we can expect that this sets the precedent for punishment, which will be...

It has a lot to do with the AFL handing out fines though.

Any danger of Wilson, McLure and friends going after this as hard as they went after eight blokes kicking a ball around for ten minutes?

How. DARE. You. ;)