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What happens if the powerful Australian Crime Commission’s threat to catch a whale in its drug-taking, match-fixing, criminal element investigation into sport turns out to be just a prawn?
And a raw one at that.
For the last week, sportsmen, sportswomen, and fans throughout Australia have been served up a lot of rhetoric, finger-pointing, guarded comments, and promises of a clean-out, with no proof or substance whatsoever.
Federal Ministers Jason Clare (Justice) and Kate Lundy (Sport) have added fuel to the fire, again with no substance.
The end result is firing blanks from the start instead of live ammunition.
Even though there’s an urgency to get to the truth let’s step back for a month, even longer if necessary, until the ACC, the Federal government, and the sports allegedly involved have had a chance to get to the bottom of these serious accusations.
And by then any confidentiality agreements will have been dispensed with, and the facts allowed to surface.
This is no time for sweeping anything under the carpet as sport has been so adept at doing over decades.
But while there’s intense media pressure on a daily basis nothing will be achieved when nobody is saying anything of import. Nor can they.
It’s a bizarre situation that was triggered by going off half-cocked at the original media conference last Thursday.
Since then the vast majority of sportsmen and women have been blanketed as guilty until proven innocent.
Not on. That’s grossly unfair to the innocent players and sports.
So let’s cut out the dribs and drabs information and wait for the real truth.
Be it a whale or a raw prawn.