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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
It's extremely important that our club and one or two others have really strong periods over the coming two or three years keeping GWS from winning a premiership. The AFL won't be able to keep throwing them a bone, once they're on the way down we alongside other clubs will be able to take their players after the inevitable exodus.
The posturing of Matthews and head office over taking away draft picks from GWS is laughable. Head office has no intention of punishing GWS to any serious extent and softening their position as a competitive 'club'. The commercial conflict is clear for everyone to see, but these backwater hacks actually think those who are mildly educated can't see that, or understand any serious action is detrimental to the AFL brand.
If the AFL actually had to show the level of governance and transparency corporations of similar public interests had to, they'd be broke. The risk profile on integrity would be too much for the market to stomach and the arse end would fall out of the organisation as quickly as you could say....."here's tonight's weather forecast.......well, almost".TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
It just stinks like a dead cat on the side of the road .
It's just atrociousComment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
Come in its easy to be negative. They packed out their home ground for that final.
Great Waste of Space. And time, and money. Draft picks.
Sympathy. A waste of the blatant favouratsm shown to them by the AFL in awarding them a final at their home ground.
the AFeL might make me actually hope another Victorian team wins. That's a fair acheivment.
I guess GWS is a handy place to warehouse players until they can get to a proper club.They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
Sure I'd love another premiership, but I'm done with this caper. Renewed my membership with social club this year but won't be going to a game. I've got my premiership before I die so I'm happy to keep supporting the club but the AFEL can get stuffed.But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
GWS Giants fined $100,000, docked 1000 draft points over role in Lachie Whitfield affair
THE GWS Giants have been fined $100,000 and stripped of draft points after being found guilty by the AFL over the club’s role in the Lachie Whitfield affair.
The Giants have not lost specific picks in the draft but instead docked 1000 draft points — the equivalent of about pick 17.
That result is much better for the Giants than the possible loss of picks 15 and 37 that was mooted before this year’s draft.
AFL lawyer Jeff Gleeson presented the league’s case today to an AFL sub-committee headed by commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick. The sub-committee was convinced a penalty should be imposed.
The Giants expressed bemusement that the saga had dragged on for more than 530 days. Whitfield was hidden at the home of GWS welfare manager Craig Lambert in May 2015.
While the AFL expressed sympathy for the Giants’ position it felt it was left no option but to punish the club.
The Giants were charged last month with conduct unbecoming and the league ruled on the case today, deciding the club was partly responsible for staff members Lambert and Graeme Allan’s bad advice to the former No.1 draft pick.
The pair arranged for Whitfield to stay at Lambert’s house last year to avoid a possible illicit drug test. Allan and Lambert were each banned in November for 12 months and Allan subsequently quit his new job at Collingwood. Whitfield was banned for six months.
The AFL released its verdict this afternoon, finding the club “responsible for the actions of senior employees”.
It also applauded the Giants for their “prompt action” once it became aware of the complaint and noted that the sub-committee found the Giants board, chief executive and chief operating officer “had no knowledge of the offending conduct and the club’s governance in relation to this matter could not be criticised”.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
I don't get it, they have been applauded by the AFL for the way they handled it and the AFL believe Lambert and Allan went rogue.
So why exactly have the club lost points now rather than before the 2016 draft?
It's smells like another brokered deal and that the real information is being kept in house.Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
The AFL had to be seen to be doing something so they fined themselves $100,000 and gave GWS a draft penalty that won't hurt them in the slightest after they trade out more players excess to requirements for high draft picks again next year.Comment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
"AFEL fines itself $100,000" - edited for accuracyComment
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Re: GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation
They're sitting out the first round next year. That's fine by me.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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