You've gotta wonder why the club is even entertaining negotiations with the AFL. What are they holding over us? I reckon the AFL got all the other presidents to sign off on the possibility of deregistering the club. Its the only thing I can think they would have left. They leaked & released every intimate detail of the club & its staff & facilitated a media assisination not seen since Lindy Chamberlain. We have had or reputations forever destroyed & will be declared as cheats regardless of what happens from here on. We've got nothing left to lose but our licence & I would not put it past the AFL for a single second to threaten it. This is why the presidents were called in. I believe as a foundation member the AFL cannot simply remove the club without the authorisation of all other clubs.
Let's call their bluff on this then. How many years left on the TV rights with Channel 7 and Foxtel for how many games each weekend, and for how many dollars is that contract worth?
Also how much revenue would the AFL lose from EFC alone. I know for a fact the vast majority will never follow another AFL club so that is revenue down the drain for an organisation that puts dollars above all else.
With a criminal investigation almost certain to result from Vlad & co being forced to appear in court the AFL would be desperate to avoid the harsh light of impartial justice being shone on their conduct.
We all know who has acted in not only a morally reprehensible manner during this saga but illegally as well. If you're not sure the only clue I am giving is that it ain't Essendon. Court wouldn't be the worse outcome on earth
Add to this the blatently currupt collusion with ASADA who release an interim report at the AFLs' request in order to help them justify their predetermined agenda of forcing us out of finals. Also who could forget our wonderful government & their part in this drama & no doubt continuing influence in perverting justice to hide their incompotence. Vlad is a good ALP man & like so many of them he's currupt to the bone (I don't care who you vote for but I believe all Essendon supporters shoudl be conscious of the the role the ALP played in all this). This was Clare & Lundys' great grandstanding idea that Vlad went along with for political expedience. He's probably got asperations himself to go into politics so had no problem swallowing the parties "blackest day in sport" & throwing us to the slaughter. We are fighting more than the AFL in this.
**** 'em all. If the AFL really want to hang us out to dry then let's turn the tables