Oh it's very fishy. Fishy like Sydney when they signed franklin, JK, parker, jack, tippett, and hannerbury all for 700k+ a year and then bingo bango they give heeney a big contract too.
Am i exaggerating Jindrrk?...am i? Or have you been slowly conditioned to accept it. If you don't the masses call you a conspiracy theorist and their attempt to make you fall in line. Every year gradually the game gets weaker and the rules slowly change. Us vets got upset at first but now we just shrug our shoulders and say "that's the AFL for you". The game has changed but we still buy memberships because we love our clubs and we will put up with it. The new breed only know the current system and that's only what the AFL cares about.
I did the same trick with my mrs. One day i noticed that my lucious locks were getting thinner. I thought "shit if my mrs finds out she might leave me" so i took up running cut my hair and my mrs asked why i cut it? Said "it gets in my face when i run". She bought it. Gradually over the next few years i kept cutting it shorter and shorter from #8 to #0. Now it's been 10 years and my mrs still hasn't said anything about my hair. So i conditioned her by desensitising her gradually over time. Sure I'll never be able to give up running just in case she asks me to grow it back but it's okay, because now she won't think any less of me because i can't grow any hair. I will not let the AFL condition me.
It's a call to arms.