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This isn't Collingwood's fault for having a loudmouth president. But it certainly reduces any sympathy you might get after your president has basically run his mouth off in the media for years, willing to step on any club if it got Collingwood any slight advantage.
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Whether or not Gillon can control those involved makes no difference to the accountability of the AFL. They entered into an agreement with the players association on the basis of confidentiality and the players association has every right to feel aggrieved by their catastrophic failure. They would also be well within their rights to demand an investigation into the source of the leak and appropriate sanctions if the AFL are to regain their trust. The AFL has a responsibility to honour its agreement and like it or not, the buck stops at Gil's feet.
I respectfully disagree. The only way that I can see that a club official would have disseminated this information is if the AFL supplied information about clubs other than the club to which they were providing the information. If that is the case then it is clearly a case of gross incompetence. In what parallel universe would anyone with half a brain consider the dissemination of 3rd party cubs data to be a logical or reasonable thing to do? Obviously none of us are privy to the actual text of the agreement but it has been stated that the data had an extremely limited audience at each club and as I have said before, the suggestion that any club would throw their own playing group under a bus is ridiculous in the extreme.
To be fair, at no stage did I say that officials of the AFLPA had no responsibility in ensuring that the agreement held water but that's another issue and we simply don't know what was signed up to. My understanding is that the info was provided to only one or two from each club based on what has been said by Nathan Buckley and/or Chris Scott on AFL360. Regardless of any of that, the game has been brought into disrepute, the confidence of the players has been infringed and I believe personally that it is incumbent on the AFL to deal with the culprit regardless of where they happen to lie.
Nah, they said every club had some with the least players positive at one club was 3. So I am hoping we are on the lower end of the scale now, but who knows we could be one of the clubs with more than the Pies.
It's pretty obvious how I came up with that, you finish every post with ellipses. Really, if you want to make a point quit being a coward & actually type something
Why do so many Collingwood supporters continue to spruik this line? I'd be absolutely embarrassed if my club had an over-opinionated, conniving buffoon like Him as Prez.
It's simple, the AFL at the very least has a moral responsibility to the players even regardless of any written agreement and regardless of how the information came into the public arena. What I'm suggesting is that if they have any integrity, the very minimum they should be doing is to launch an investigation to at least provide some support to the players. Any decent organisation would do this however, to this time the AFL has not even seen fit to comment. That, in its simplest form is what I'm talking about when I speak of integrity.
Wow, are there still people out there who are unaware that it was Eddie who saved Mick from the lynch mob when people were calling for him to be sacked in 2009? Honestly, this same old tired misinformation gets trotted out so often that some people seem to actually believe it to be true. FFS!
Agreed. I just don't agree with him throwing Collingwood under the bus. There was no need to mention them whatsoever, particularly with such sketchy details. I thought that was a bit unethical.
