Yes, the way it read it sounded like the coaches could do as they please.
Yeah lol sorry, my first post doesn’t read well.
Probably Hayden Skipworth and Essendon will get blamed.
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This is terrible governance - punish the club as well as the individual please.
Bucks and Sanderson
LOLOLOL
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Pies smashed for backhanded breach.
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Hang on, Ed yesterday criticised the other 4 clubs and said the ones responsible should be sent home. So are you sending them home Ed?
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Just in case anyone was wondering what Eddie thinks about this sort of thing:
“Lets be honest, I think what needs to happen … do you think the AFL will just come out and say ‘right, here’s what it is and if you do this you’re all clear’, and if you do that you’re in big trouble and if anybody transgresses you’re on the plane home, we’re not gonna cop this stuff’.
“I think that’s where it’s gotta be, it’s just gotta be so clear cut that no one can have any mitigation.
“Every time somebody does something in this country … ‘I thought I could do this, I thought I could do that’, well you can’t, bang.”
Well, at least that’s what he thought when it was Richmond\North\FC\Hawthorne breaching the rules.
Also: Called it.
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Fat Ed definitely finding the challenge of balancing the presidency and his role as media agitator a little more difficult this year. Makes me really happy.
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Looking forward to Ed demanding Buckley and Sanderson be sent back to Melbourne. I think it will happen at the same time as the AFL admit the umpires reamed Essendon last night.
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Swept under the rug? Nobody cares about Lumumba.
As soon as Eddie fired his mouth off yesterday a pies mate of mine sent me a text “ffs lock it in, we will be next with something stupid”.
And bingo.
Didn’t think it would be the coach though
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Pies have been fined $50k, $25k suspended.
Eddie’s next comment
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My giess was De Goey smuggling a Tinder match into the hub…
Collingwood has been hit with an effective $25,000 fine from the AFL after senior coach Nathan Buckley and assistant coach Brenton Sanderson broke coronavirus protocols by playing a tennis match with people outside their club contacts.
In a statement, the AFL said the Magpies reported the breach of the Return to Play protocols to the league today after Buckley and Sanderson played the tennis game on Friday with “two people from outside of the approved club people”.
“Both Buckley and Sanderson immediately reported the inadvertent breach to Collingwood officials when they realised they didn’t have the appropriate approval to partake in the activity,” the statement said.
AFL general counsel Andrew Dillon said the league appreciated Collingwood’s self-reporting of the breach and had sanctioned them $50,000, half of which would be suspended.
“We note that tennis is an approved exercise activity however approved participants are limited to approved club staff, players, household members and immediate family,” he said.
“Notwithstanding the inadvertent nature of this breach, it doesn’t excuse the responsibility to abide by the protocols.”
Buckley and Sanderson ask to pay fine
In a separate statement, Collingwood said Buckley and Sanderson had accepted responsibility for their actions and had asked to personally pay the effective $25,000 fine themselves.
“At the time, we believed we had followed and adhered to the protocols as required but after returning to the hotel and readdressing the circumstances it became crystal clear that we had breached the current AFL protocols,” the pair were quoted as saying.
“The competition is asking its constituents to make great sacrifices for the show to go on and we have all accepted these for the long-term future of the industry and the privilege of participating within it.”
The club’s chief executive Mark Anderson said the breach was a “very disappointing reminder” of the vigilance required to keep the competition running.
“Our game has been granted the right to continue to play by governments around the country,” he said.
"In exchange for that right, we simply must do all that we can to protect the health of our players, staff and the communities in which we are living and playing.
“As a club, we apologise, vow to be better and fully accept the penalty.”
So hang on, they inadvertently did it, then immediately reported themselves. So if it was inadvertent then how did they know they did the wrong thing?
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I’m assuming that they were caught so decided to self-report. That always ends well.
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“If you do this… you’re all clear. If you do that… you’re in big trouble. If any one transgresses you’re on the plane home, we’re not going to cop this stuff. I think that’s where it has got to be,” he said.
“It’s just got to be so clear cut that no one can have any mitigation that I though this happened, or I heard that that happened. I thought I could do this… no you can’t. Bang.
Okay Eddie, waiting for you to send Buckley and Sanderson home…
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Watch Eddie now start to say it is important to not loose focus on the mental health of people and all they were doing was getting exercise and clearing there mind.
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