New Shiel deal ticked off

Monkey King

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There is a good reason why Pratt himself was never fined.
The fines were handed down by Justice Heerey long before Pratt’s death. So you’re a great example of what I was talking about before. Not much clue really. Dependent on newspaper headlines and articles.

And so you cite these charges of perjury, based on evidence that a Federal Judge Ryan had already thrown out. Anyone who understood what was going on knew the claim of withdrawal due to Pratt’s illness was posturing.
 

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The Essendon footy club were unrepentant about their systemic doping regime and the AFL did their level best to sweep things under the rug and minimise the damage.

So why would anyone be surprised about them colluding over salary cap cheating?

Culture.:rolleyes:

Free agency was only going to work fairly for all clubs if the AFL was transparent about player salaries and vigorously policed the salary cap. But it’s quite clear from all the side deals which players are able to make that the salary cap rules are toothless and the current system is a farce.

But what do you expect from an organisation that ticked off the Buddy Franklin deal, effectively stealing him away from Hawthorn and paying him millions on the side to be the AFL ambassador & public face of footy in Sydney.

The AFL is a shitty corrupt competition where the people in charge just make up the rules as they go along.
lol. This is a 20k per annum thing part time. Hardly expect it was a big secret and a part of his deal in coming across. More likely he started talking property with someone at the club and an opportunity came up which will set him up with some knowledge for after footy.

But sure, make up all you need to.
 

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20k for one day a week if that. Tell me where I can find an internship with those benefits.
Conversely for 5 days a week it puts him on 100k per annum. So based on what Essendon are paying him, do you truly believe that he's rorting the system? If I offered the guy 20k a week he'd tell me to jump. Seemingly it's something he wants to do and there's something in it for him. Do you think that 1 day per week of his time is really worthy only 20k to him?
 

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Since when is “learning the property game” an income earning job?
Driving around hammering for sale signs into the ground. Maybe being given a couple of rental properties to manage or do some trust admin work. Every day of the week somebody will start in a property business somewhere in the country with no experience in the industry at all. And they’ll almost all be earning their meagre wages. It might be a rort, but it’s most probably not.
 

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The collusion’s aim was to cease a long running price war, not hike high prices higher. Just to stop undercutting the market (which in duopoly means each other) and allow prices to rise along with CPI like most other products. It was the right decision for both companies and fair for customers; the idea of being “ripped off” is actually based on customers losing access to unsustainable under market prices. The only problem is, the execs talked about it and agreed upon it.
This paragraph is absolute comedy.

“The collusion wasn’t to increase prices, it was to not decrease them”

😂😂😂

Do you work in politics?

And it was “fair for customers”! Classic
 

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There is a mildly amusing aside here.. Big Joe was touch and go to get a game last week, Scott was preparing his game plan with him playing and the Northerners were begging for Big Joe the potatoe fronting up for the game against the shinboners.
Fast forward, Joe gets a late call up for the game, North get humiliated and suddenly all we hear are the bleatings and feeble cries of North telling the world they've been ripped off.
You can't have your cake and it eat too.
Nice try attempting at justifying the cheating but I complained about it before the game.
 
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