Nathan MottonLeague to keep report secret
February 20th 2008 05:26
The AFL will keep secret a potentially damaging report into the off-field indiscretions off West Coast Eagles players over the past 12 months.
AFL Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou said the report would not be released publicly, rather a brief summary would be presented to ensure negative impact on the sport was kept to a minimum.
"We don't anticipate releasing the report publicly, but what we will do is release an executive summary of some of his (William Gillard's) finding's publicly, Demetriou said.
Once again the individual's right to privacy versus the public's right to know has reared it's ugly head in the media.
The Eagles have dominated headlines across all forms of media over the past 18 months, and a report into the seriousness of their misdemeanours should not be kept out of the public domain.
Although it is unclear whether any Eagles employee had been singled out in Gillard's 95-page report, Demetriou said he would await the Eagle's response before considering any sanctions to be handed out.
This is just spin.
This scribe is fed up with the AFL's determination to keep the real issues that are facing our great sport, hush hush.
And this scribe is even more fed up with the AFL's weak, pathetic and lackluster attempts to appear as if it is 'sanctioning' the Eagles off-field antics.
This report must be released because the public would want to, and should know the details.
It's about time the AFL accepted it's role in this fiasco, and started handing out appropriate punishments to those offenders.
Otherwise our great game will continue to be tarnished by a club that seems to think it can make it's own rules.
AFL Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou said the report would not be released publicly, rather a brief summary would be presented to ensure negative impact on the sport was kept to a minimum.
"We don't anticipate releasing the report publicly, but what we will do is release an executive summary of some of his (William Gillard's) finding's publicly, Demetriou said.
Once again the individual's right to privacy versus the public's right to know has reared it's ugly head in the media.
Although it is unclear whether any Eagles employee had been singled out in Gillard's 95-page report, Demetriou said he would await the Eagle's response before considering any sanctions to be handed out.
This is just spin.
This scribe is fed up with the AFL's determination to keep the real issues that are facing our great sport, hush hush.
And this scribe is even more fed up with the AFL's weak, pathetic and lackluster attempts to appear as if it is 'sanctioning' the Eagles off-field antics.
This report must be released because the public would want to, and should know the details.
It's about time the AFL accepted it's role in this fiasco, and started handing out appropriate punishments to those offenders.
Otherwise our great game will continue to be tarnished by a club that seems to think it can make it's own rules.
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