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Thrown under the bus

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On the April 30 edition of the Run Home Gil McLachlan responded to questioning that he had been thrown under the bus this in relation to the Melbourne tanking allegation.

If you listen to Gillon McLachlans response which is at timestamp 3.05 of the digital file on the SEN Facebook page he said

The reality was our rules diddn'twhat they were found guilty {of} was not technically tanking under our rules and yet Melbourne suffered reputational and financial loss of $500,000.

https://www.facebook.com/SEN1116/posts/841487222535094

Now that the CEO has admitted that the punishment of Melbourne was literally unlawful and given that the AFL has now shown itself capable in the Viney case of admitting its wrong and correcting an injustice isn't it time that the AFL reversed itself on the tanking matter?

Justice delayed is justice denied and a new era of fan focussed AFL leadership would be well served by the reversal of an injustice.

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    They essentially 're compensated us with the financial bail out package anyways

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    They essentially 're compensated us with the financial bail out package anyways

    They didn't compensate us for our reputation loss.

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    Can we be thankful, drop this and move on guys? They've righted a wrong that they could've ignored. We won.

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    Jesus - you want to dig that up again - in my opinion they let us off the hook.

    As far as I am concerned that was the old Melbourne. We are now Roo's demons the only time we will be spoken of is when someone says "gee Melbourne played hard footy on the weekend"

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    I 'll talk to Gil at the polo and see is we can snare Josh Patton to replace big Mitch.

    Then we are square.

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    They didn't compensate us for our reputation loss.

    I think we caused ample damage to our reputation during that period by our actions, not that inquiry.

    But as has been said, not now. No need to dig up skeletons that best remain buried.

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    They just need to investigate and fine all the other clubs that have tanked (and strip Hawthorn and Collingwood of their ill gotten premierships)

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