Petition for more transparancy and accountability in AFL administration

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  • Jewels
    On the Rookie List
    • Oct 2006
    • 3258
    #46
    Just done, number 554 and have passed it onto everyone I know that loves sport, not just Swans fans or AFL fans as this is just so very, very wrong.
    I'd also like to hear something more from the Swans; are they going to fight this? Take legal action? Surely as financial contributors to the affected club we have a right to know if they actually plan on doing anything.

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      • Red
        Foreign Correspondent
        • Jan 2003
        • 651
        #47
        Signed (#560) & shared on FB.

        I'd like to see us withdraw Kieran and Nick from the International Series. Announce the immediate closure of the Swans Academy. No more Swans clinics in schools, regional NSW, etc. No more pressers from the coach or players.

        Why TF should the Swans do any more favours to the prix at AFL house?

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        Originally posted by Jewels
        Just done, number 554 and have passed it onto everyone I know that loves sport, not just Swans fans or AFL fans as this is just so very, very wrong.
        I'd also like to hear something more from the Swans; are they going to fight this? Take legal action? Surely as financial contributors to the affected club we have a right to know if they actually plan on doing anything.
        By the time any legal action got rolling the trade period will have finished, so they've already won this round.
        To all those people who waited 72 years to see a South Melbourne/Sydney Swans premiership HERE IT IS!!

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          • penga
            Senior Player
            • Jan 2003
            • 2601
            #48
            Signed and shared.
            C'mon Chels!

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              • GoRhino
                Pushing for Selection
                • Aug 2008
                • 68
                #49
                I boycotted any show hosted by Eddie McGuire two months ago. Have signed the Petition and will boycott the AFL sponsors. Don't roll over on this one!!!

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                  • shippo
                    ?
                    Site Admin
                    • Jun 2005
                    • 132
                    #50
                    If it's going to take hold, everyone who can be bothered to petition should also take the time to spread the petition's link via whatever means they have at their disposal.
                    Pretty simple to post something on facebook. And bump it. Obviously with all the crap going on in the world at the moment, this issue may seem somewhat trite, fair enough too - but you've got to give it a bit of a nudge.
                    "She said 'Come look there's a wardrobe of love in my eye'. Take your time, look around, and see if there's something your size."
                    Wardrobe Of Love, Ishtar

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                      • Northern_Swan
                        Sweet home Novacastria
                        • Nov 2004
                        • 530
                        #51
                        Originally posted by Matimbo
                        The player restraint of trade angle is very interesting ... if I recall correctly, it was used some years ago in a legal case in NSW brought by a player against the rugby league administration and resulted in a loss of the court case by the league. As a result, their entire plan to establish a proposed draft system was scuttled. I would have thought both the Swans plus the AFL Players Association (who have publicly criticised the AFL's anti-Swans ruling) threatening to challenge the ruling in court would be a huge risk to the AFL.

                        I've signed the petition also.
                        Adamson V NSWRL

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                          • dimelb
                            pr. dim-melb; m not f
                            • Jun 2003
                            • 6889
                            #52
                            Not a peep after my e-mail to the AFL.

                            Mrs d and I are #775.
                            He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)

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                              • giant
                                Veterans List
                                • Mar 2005
                                • 4733
                                #53
                                I'm not really one for the "AFL conspiracy against the Swans" but this move has no basis in rationality, only vindictiveness.

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                                  • CureTheSane
                                    Carpe Noctem
                                    • Jan 2003
                                    • 5032
                                    #54
                                    775 is weak anyways.
                                    I reckon we'd have needed 5000 odd for anyone to even know about this petition.
                                    Time to move on.
                                    Feel let down by the club that they didn't act with more outrage and angst.
                                    The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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                                      • ScottH
                                        It's Goodes to cheer!!
                                        • Sep 2003
                                        • 23665
                                        #55
                                        Originally posted by CureTheSane
                                        775 is weak anyways.
                                        I reckon we'd have needed 5000 odd for anyone to even know about this petition.
                                        Time to move on.
                                        Feel let down by the club that they didn't act with more outrage and angst.
                                        Agree. 40,000+ members and we can only get 775.
                                        Like spitting into the wind.

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                                          • Margo
                                            On the Rookie List
                                            • Jul 2009
                                            • 138
                                            #56
                                            Originally posted by ScottH
                                            Agree. 40,000+ members and we can only get 775.
                                            Like spitting into the wind.
                                            I just signed. Was 834. This is going to be a long fight and this petition will be only one of several strategies. It will also take some time to gain momentum. I am sure that Swans Co. have a War Room and in time we will see their response. They are unlikely to roll over.

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                                              • juliec
                                                Warming the Bench
                                                • Jan 2003
                                                • 164
                                                #57
                                                Just signed and left comments on the petition
                                                Sydney Swans/SMFC "PREMIERS 2005"

                                                GO SYDNEY SWANS

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                                                  • rojo
                                                    Opti-pessi-misti
                                                    • Mar 2009
                                                    • 1103
                                                    #58
                                                    Anyone got a list of all the Swans' members and their email addresses? Any red and white hackers out there!!

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                                                      • Dave
                                                        Let those truckers roll
                                                        • Jan 2003
                                                        • 1557
                                                        #59
                                                        Well, I went to the Four Corners website and submitted this a suggestion for a story. I even suggested a title "Sydney Swans V AFL, how the AFL turned on its expansion poster boy".
                                                        Probably come to nothing but I just felt better at the thought of investigative journos making the AFL, McGuire and whoever else accountable for their actions.
                                                        "My theory is that the universe is made out of stupidity because it's more plentiful than hydrogen" - Frank Zappa

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                                                          • Jewels
                                                            On the Rookie List
                                                            • Oct 2006
                                                            • 3258
                                                            #60
                                                            Originally posted by Dave
                                                            Well, I went to the Four Corners website and submitted this a suggestion for a story. I even suggested a title "Sydney Swans V AFL, how the AFL turned on its expansion poster boy".
                                                            Probably come to nothing but I just felt better at the thought of investigative journos making the AFL, McGuire and whoever else accountable for their actions.
                                                            Kudos Dave, that's a great idea! It may not come to anything but if no-one ever suggests it then it definitly won't.

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