the Judd/Visy deal - will it blow up in the AFL's face?

[keyboard]

Interesting interview on SEN, where Francis Leach ( and the Ox did his best ) grilled AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson on the issue of salary cap rorting, in particular the Judd/Visy/Carlton deal. They wanted to know exactly what everybody wants to know about this and similar issues ( and believe me, I am not claiming any club is innocent here ): How is taking a payment from the company of the club president not a rort of the salary cap? It turns out the answer is simple ( for all you doubters )! According to Anderson, the investigating officer, Ken Wood, simply accepted a Statutary Declaration from Visy that their employment of Judd was independent of his involvement with the Blues. On that basis the AFL signed off on the deal. Fools like us might ask, why would you accept a stat dec from someone who has been described as "Australia's biggest corporate criminal"? Apparently those sort of questions don't occur to the AFL's fearless investigators! Anderson went on to say the integrity of the salary cap is protected by punishments such as large fines and the loss of draft picks. Ummmm..... not if the AFL has rubber-stamped it, Adrian.

Francis suggested a third party regulator should be overseeing these arrangements, as the AFL seemed incapable. I'm sympathetic to this idea, at the moment it seems like the fox is guarding the henhouse...

[ossie85]

Completely agree with all that

[Bluke]

Yep, completely agree with your sentiments Keyboard