CC should never work for the MFC again.

go tell that to his face...

So stupid comments made by Chris Connolly was the result in this saga lasting over 7 months, and costing the club $500,000.

The Club must ensure his 12 months suspension is finalised with termination of his employme

DB dug his own hole at his final MFC presser. Being staunch now would have been irrelevant.

I dont have the transcript in front of me but those comments were ambigious and indirect, and could be covered. Its the subsequent acceptance that he followed orders to play players out of position and leave players out to gain draft picks.

In light of this we are lucky.

An 800 page revenue raising exercise!

He is the one taking the grenade you ingrate.

Yes, but he pulled the pin and dropped it at his feet.

No sympathy for Connolly at all.

He cracked a joke that Dean Bailey took seriously and acted upon. Why the fcuk are you defending him?

areyou really that dim Billy..I am surprised.

CC should never work for the MFC again.

Why? For taking a bullet for the club?

We have accepted the fine. Question. How do we get fined for "employing" someone?

This is a Kangaroo Court. I feel very sorry for CC, but in particular Dean Bailey. This has been constructed to suit.

Kangaroo, Blues & Badgers.

I'd say some have been badgered into an acceptance,,,, that the door is still open to them.

Otherwise the door will be slammed shut. hard on a career person... just? I'm not so sure.

He is the one taking the grenade you ingrate.

Yeah for his stupid dumb ass comments, watch the presser, CC should never work for OUR club again, 7 months of [censored] and 500,000 in the hole, if you cost the company you work for that grief would you expect your job when your time was up

Why is it so hard for most to understand? Bailey felt pressured by remarks that Connolly made. Bailey was basically told to lose a game. Bailey NEVER instructed his team to lose, and coached to his full merits on match day. He picked a team that would struggle to win, but under the "official" rule of tanking, he/we did not tank.

It's like making the swimming finals at the Olympics, then swimming the final with an anchor tied to your ankle.

We are not guilty of tanking or fixing matches. Thanks Christ for that, and hopefully this won't have a negative impact on sponsors and gaming licences.

resting 14 players isnt tanking....

"All I can talk to is the evidence presented beofre me."

Sounds like Gillon is open to other clubs investigated?

This surely will be up to the Media doing their job,,, or Not?

Just listened to Mc whatever-his-name-is dismissing the allegations about Freo (think Mark Robinson asked it) - totally missed the point - they weren't resting players in preparation for the finals - they were resting players TO LOSE THE FRIGGIN MATCH and get a home final.

AAAAghhh!

Screwed again.

Apparently DB, according to McLachlan, always coached to the best of his ability on match day, yet he was so susceptible to CC, he did things under "pressure". Sorry, this does not make sense to any reasonably minded person. This is a "negotiated" outcome, in an effort to save face for the AFL. No AD present.

areyou really that dim Billy..I am surprised.

B59, CC accepted it. Regardless of if he had a gun held to his head or not, he knows he fcuked up and should be punished. There's every possible chance he was responsible in some way for the treatment given to these "ex employees" that made them feel they should blow the whistle.

I'm as one-eyed as anyone on here, but how can you not hold him responsible? Answer that rather than the idiotic insults.

Here we go 3 pages and counting, all sanctions have been accepted by all parties.....END......... MOVE ON

Brock's $10K he threw in has fallen $490K short.

Hope he gets [censored]-mixed proper when we [censored] Carlton.

So, by definition now, any coach can lose games by moving or leaving out players, and the club will not be found guilty of tanking - as long as any directive has not been issued by the club! I'd like to know what their definition of "club" is, because I would have thought CC was acting on behalf of the club in his role as The FD manager....just sayin'

Just listened to Mc whatever-his-name-is dismissing the allegations about Freo (think Mark Robinson asked it) - totally missed the point - they weren't resting players in preparation for the finals - they were resting players TO LOSE THE FRIGGIN MATCH and get a home final.

AAAAghhh!

Screwed again.

They were playing (losing) to get a home final. They weren't losing to have an impact of the draft order. There is a difference if you want to see it, but most won't, and I can appreciate that.

The most troubling matter out of all this as far as I'm concerned is that the AFL leaks like a sieve to Caroline Wilson. She wasn't 100% correct, but she had enough correct information to satisfy me that she wasn't just guessing.

"All I can talk to is the evidence presented beofre me."

Sounds like Gillon is open to other clubs investigated?

I'd suggest the complete opposite. This was a turd that Anderson left on the table for McLachlan to clean up. Vlad will think twice about taking holidays mid season again. I doubt this investigation would have taken place on his watch.

IMO this topic will never be revisited. We are the big rug that "tanking" is being swept under. Carlton, Freo et al will be breathing a collective sigh of relief

AFL = Rules on the run. Who at the highest level let the media know several days before the official announcement, what the fines and sanctions would actually be? Rank amateurs.

Why is it so hard for most to understand? Bailey felt pressured by remarks that Connolly made. Bailey was basically told to lose a game. Bailey NEVER instructed his team to lose, and coached to his full merits on match day. He picked a team that would struggle to win, but under the "official" rule of tanking, he/we did not tank.

It's like making the swimming finals at the Olympics, then swimming the final with an anchor tied to your ankle.

We are not guilty of tanking or fixing matches. Thanks Christ for that, and hopefully this won't have a negative impact on sponsors and gaming licences.

you just don't get it billy.

you just don't seem to be able to see the whole picture.

some are servants & give give give.

some simpletons just want to hang hero's.

It's like cooking the books. Commission get their head, crash Melbourne, & dance around the wording to protect our licenses. Totally manipulated result.

on the AFL's website it says 'Melbourne fined $500K, Dean Bailey and Chris Connolly banned over tanking" as the subheading to the link to the article?!

FFS

Well picked up. Summarises what a pathetic, confused and unsatisfactory saga this was.

B59, CC accepted it. Regardless of if he had a gun held to his head or not, he knows he fcuked up and should be punished. There's every possible chance he was responsible in some way for the treatment given to these "ex employees" that made them feel they should blow the whistle.

I'm as one-eyed as anyone on here, but how can you not hold him responsible? Answer that rather than the idiotic insults.

if youre unable to decipher whats really going on here then Im really surprised. Do you really belieive that load of crup from McGillon.. That was bullspeak .

even if youre argument was to hold any water...then it would only be Bails fault for having no sense of f'n humour. But we know its nothing to do with that.

this is the AFLs way of saving face...nothing more , nothiing less. There is no guilty actions. He McG all but admitted that.