Geelong rorting the system

[Whiskers]

Serious answer?

Because I do love the code... enough to call out the bullshit that gets swept under the rug.

If you think blind trust is the price of admission, that’s on you. I reckon scrutiny is part of the deal. The day fans stop asking questions is the day the AFL gets away with whatever it wants.

You don’t need a tinfoil hat to notice patterns.
You just need a memory.

Now if that makes you uncomfortable, maybe you should reflect on why.

It’s not just the saints or cats. Your belief that everything is dodgy covers everything even your own team.

You can question things, but you’re on another level completely.
It’s insane.

Appreciate the honest answer, I just can’t comprehend how you can follow the sport.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

This doesn’t prove you correct lol.
It just shows saints are a basket case, not that it’s dodgy and not above board.

Hahahaha far out you really are a nuff

4/5 targets.

Explain how champ?

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

Instead we got the equivalent of a teacher letting a kid take a pen home from school without making a note of it.

Not really a good comparison. I am a teacher, and my students don’t give pens back all the time.

A better comparison would be a football or a cricket bat.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lets face the facts that nobody gives a shit about the admin error and all we care about is if this is what can be found on paper what is being covered up. Did Cameron get 150k to host a bunch of camps while getting paid 150k less to play? Is Chris Scott's deal with Morris Finance similar? There is smoke everywhere but there is no transparency on any of these deals. Just like every time there is an RFA and Geelong's pay offer is always veiled in secrecy.

Geelong has signed how many restricted free agents?
Scott Selwood and now James Worpel.

What a hot streak of skullduggery.

 

[PhatBoy]

That’s like asking for proof the fox raided the henhouse while it’s still wiping feathers off its mouth. Good luck to Geelong landing Curnow now, the AFL will be watching every brown paper bag that leaves Kardinia Park.

Yeah because THAT’S gonna be the biggest challenge, not the sheer lack of resources we have to offer Carlton in return for him.

 

[STPer18]

Geelong has signed how many restricted free agents?
Scott Selwood and now James Worpel.

What a hot streak of skullduggery.

Yup, Jimmy Worpel is Geelong's second ever restricted free agent.

 

[PhatBoy]

Maybe they give him livestock so he has to live locally.

Do…. Do you know how farms work?

A little off topic but to own livestock, profit from it, benefit from it etc, you don’t have to show physical proof that you have handfed it every meal it’s ever eaten or that you’ve crutched every sheep that’s ever set foot on your property with your own teeth.

We could just pay for several farmhands to do it for him or buy some livestock and pay the agistment on it at another nearby property etc and rort it that way.

 

[PayFL]

I don't think the afl are professional enough to ever do a good job covering something up.

Good point - you can't on the one hand believe the AFL are running the ultimate illuminati level cover for Geelong, yet on the other hand claim they're completely incompetent and couldn't organise a root in a brothel.

For all the tit for tat tomfoolery going on in here it's pretty simple when distilled down - Geelong pushed the boundaries and broke some third party arrangement rules, and have rightly been called out for it. The stigma is much worse than the pretty weak fine.

Yet the infractions are relatively minor, and I'm sure the majority of other clubs are guilty of similar.

The melts are clearly in part because of Geelong's sustained relative success - Geelong fatigue - and if it were North or Gold Coast it would barely cause a ripple. It's just nice to be relevant though - no longer sleepy hollow.

 

[STPer18]

Good luck to Geelong landing Curnow now, the AFL will be watching every brown paper bag that leaves Kardinia Park.

Good luck received!

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Good luck received!

About time we got our allocation of luck, it's been literal weeks

 

[Munich]

There have now been two clubs caught rorting the system... that have won premierships while rorting the system.

Essendon 1993
Geelong 2022

And what did the AFL do about it. Nothing. So slap an asterix on the 2022 premiership because we all know that Geelong rorted the system and won the premiership doing it.

Lolz. A Carlton supporter throwing shade about compromised GF wins.

Is this a serious post?

 

[Satan]

Good luck to Geelong landing Curnow now, the AFL will be watching every cotton on bag that leaves Kardinia Park

Efa

 

[blueiris]

Cats over the Cap again and continue to get slapped with wet lettuce

 

[RCAB]

Good luck received!

How do you afford every player again?

 

[_jrtp09_]

Yeah because THAT’S gonna be the biggest challenge, not the sheer lack of resources we have to offer Carlton in return for him.

Exactly! No trade bait, no cap room, and the AFL watching their every move. Good luck landing Curnow with that hand!

 

[Xtreme]

Cotton On. Ford. Morris Finance. Cheap farms.

Uncle Franks underworld fruit shops

 

[STPer18]

How do you afford every player again?

The recent audit found we actually had a lot of spare salary cap space going unused. The timing couldn't have been any better.

 

[Greenfinger]

Not according to the article on the AFL website.

"The League revealed on Wednesday that the Cats had not breached any total player payments or soft cap rules, but they had failed to disclose some third-party deals".

A $77,500 fine with $40,000 suspended is a wet lettuce leaf for "failing to disclose some third-party deals". Player salaries and club caps are not publicised nor are third party deals. The AFL is an amateur organisation that fails upwards.

Can someone please explain to me how this is any different than the Kurt tippet saga? Genuine question. Is it a lesser crime? From memory tippets was all about disclosure too?

 

[blueiris]

Cotton On. Ford. Morris Finance. Cheap farms.

Hey if you can continue to get away with it no one can really blame you but that AFL House does nothing seems wired

 

[longdonkey]

Do…. Do you know how farms work?

A little off topic but to own livestock, profit from it, benefit from it etc, you don’t have to show physical proof that you have handfed it every meal it’s ever eaten or that you’ve crutched every sheep that’s ever set foot on your property with your own teeth.

We could just pay for several farmhands to do it for him or buy some livestock and pay the agistment on it at another nearby property etc and rort it that way.

Seriously, you are joking. Any AFL footballer who own a farm, either don't have much land or are leasing (the land) it to a real farmer.

 

[Munich]

How do you afford every player again?

How does Brisbane?

 

[Purple Suit]

Not according to the article on the AFL website.

"The League revealed on Wednesday that the Cats had not breached any total player payments or soft cap rules, but they had failed to disclose some third-party deals".

A $77,500 fine with $40,000 suspended is a wet lettuce leaf for "failing to disclose some third-party deals". Player salaries and club caps are not publicised nor are third party deals. The AFL is an amateur organisation that fails upwards.

They really should has said "Not that we know what breeching even is" when they said they hadn't done it. It seemed to work for the tanking debate when the AFL fined themselves and punished Adelaide.

 

[Former Decathlete]

AFL to everyone. You have to use a pick in the first round of a draft 2 in every 5 years.

Cats yeah nah that applies to everyone but us.

In 2024, they used pick 44.

 

[Munich]

AFL to everyone. You have to use a pick in the first round of a draft 2 in every 4 years.

Cats yeah nah that applies to everyone but us.

Biggest ****ing cheats going around and AFL seem to have two rule books

One for everyone else. One for the cheats.

How many first Rd picks has Geelong had in the last few decades? Genuinely curious.

 

[Purple Suit]

AFL to everyone. You have to use a pick in the first round of a draft 2 in every 4 years.

Cats yeah nah that applies to everyone but us.

Biggest ****ing cheats going around and AFL seem to have two rule books

One for everyone else. One for the cheats.

Yep, in changing the rules to be 2 out of 5 years they have decided it's too complicated to figure out so everyone gets a tick for 23 + 24 so Geelong can trade all three out. Geelong still getting all the luck without any rorting going on....