I am so angry about this, why are we always the ones who get dudded?
That little puppet, AA, is a waste of space.
How unprofessional to not even advise the club as to why they changed the goal posts and to inform the club after they had re-signed players for new contracts.

I think this was inevitable and a good thing, except for the poor person who has to be delisted for next year so we can meet the cap.

The contract has done it's job. We enticed Judd over, had the initial deal improved, and hastened our return to credibility. All good, ok. It was inevitable that it would get additional scrutiny at some stage.

As others have said it looks like Carlton had briefed the AFL well so no issues for us. As other clubs stretched the rules it was bound to get brought back in somehow.

I give Adrian Anderson till Christmas when an announcement will be made that he's moving onto greater opportunity.

AFL are a pack of hypocritical "k's".

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

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You really believe Anderson is a decision maker?....

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Wish Eddie McGuire was our president. He has a lot more influence over the AFL than our president.

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It is not as bad as you are lead to believe.......it is %$#^& worse!!!

10 years after the AFL said they went easy on us and the AFL have found away to stick it right up us again this is absolutely out flowering rageous.

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"Hence you will not say that Greeks fight like heroes but that heroes fight like Greeks"?

Winston Churchill

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Cheats never prosper (except in the AFL)

Can anyone confirm if Judd still had a year to run on the existing Vist 3rd Oarty deal. Caroline Wilsons article says that AA terminated the agreement on short (no) notice with a year left to run.

Earlier pusters on TC were of the opinion that the deal still had a year to run but then other posters said it had expired and Carlton had asked for a renewal. Either way it is shoddy treatment by AFL to say the least.

Unfortuneately I can see a court battle looming with Judd and Tippett (and numerous others) on the same side v the AFL.

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“Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile a way and you have their shoes."

Why prompt it? Are you talking about those that think Carlton's list management is crap or those that blame everything on the AFL? Anyway, we still have to make sure we are not going to be over the TPP. I don't give a stuff what the AFL does as long as we have our own crap sorted. That's all we can do.

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Just because I'm offended, doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I believe we should challenge the decision in court and then sue them for damages as they nearly sent us into liquidation with their last decision!

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

That would be Judd's choice, not the clubs if we have no involvement in the arrangement.

How is it even possible we have no involvement in the arrangement? It's in our best interests and will affect our pay structures/plans/budgets....

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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Are registered AFL listed players allowed to be paid remuneration for work undertaken outside of their employment by and an AFL club?

This is the $64 question. I am not sure but i think players have to sign an agreement when they first get drafted.
If anyone took this to court they would surely win as it is a restraint of trade, which is why i thought the AFL allowed these deals to begin with to prevent any court action.
Paul Connors was very angry this morning and wont take this lying down. It is so unfair that our club pays the price for a private deal between Visy and Judd.
My work place cant stop me from taking on a second job so dont see why the AFL can.

yep

sure as shit havent heard the last of this

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

As a department head he should be, otherwise why employ him?

General Manager of Football Operations

Are we part of the commercial contract or simply a broker to the third party agreement?