Draft picks off the table, but Crows facing heavy penalties for training breach

FC is a joke (and has been for some time)! The general state of journalism is also a joke. A journo races to post an outlandish claim and everyone else piles on and reinforces the fabrication, hoping to back the AFL into a corner driven by public opinion that has been influenced by the original myth. This article is a case in point. On what basis was the expectation that the AFL would hand the Adelaide Crows a heavy fine, as suggested in this article, formulated? Who did the fact checking? Who was the source of the rumour? Did a journo simply make it up whilst other lazy journos doubled down to perpetuate the make news myth! It is the latter for me!

Yeah, but then he'd have nothing to say. No-one is interested in anything the Suns are doing.

You should have seen footy classified last night..wailing and complaining that the crows should have got a much more severe penalty. They just couldn't accept the umpires call on this one and are as salty as hell in the media over there. I wonder how hot for penalties caro would have been if it was her richmond team that had had a few blokes kick a ball together for 5 minutes

Thank goodness sanity prevailed! No one outside Victoria thought there were going to be suspensions or $100K fines. Having a chuckle listening to the outrage from the buffoons who embarrassed themselves with their preemptive commentary. The dearth of quality journalism in that state is indicative of the of integrity in that industry.

Well he should have declined the request!

Agree re the punishment being very non hurtful..Really some of the vic media need their heads pulled in - draft sanctions, huge fines etc. But again, the AFL were enforcing a 2 person training limit full stop - WCE and Bulldogs players broke it as well - punish the players involved the same as the crows which would be the right thing to do and then they can move on safe in the knowledge justice was handed out evenly

The coordinated nature of the 'training session' is not a good look for Adelaide.

Storm in a teacup Sammy, one game suspended sentence to 16 players and we move on to the next non event.

Player and coach only punishments and therefore the club is removed from the equation as they issued proper instruction which the players in the main followed apart from a single kicking drill. Therefore lets see the same applied now to WCE and the Bulldogs players that breached the 2 person rule

Premiership points can be docked too.

They are different breaches. The players weren't under the care of the club.

Regardless, there are still two issues with Adelaide. First is the same 2 person rule, second is the stupidity of breaching isolation rules when the AFL were trying to get its season up and running. If the AFL hand down a punishment, take note of what the punishment if for, before comparing with WC or WB.

Nice try..it is a straight breach of the 2 person limit by WC and Bulldogs and to say their clubs were unaware they would be training is laughable - considering the dogs picture is at main oval. The AFL is enforcing the 2 person limit and a breach is a breach https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-04/tom-rockliff-afl-victoria-bias-coronavirus-training-restrictions/12211236

If the club is to be punished but not the players, that essentially leaves a fine as the only viable penalty.

No - the matters are quite separate. The WC and Footscray players can be punished individually. Their breaches were done at the individual level independent of the club. The clubs bear no responsibility for their actions taken away from any club sanctioned activity. The Adelaide breach was done by players and staff who were staying at a premises financed by the club, and under the direct duty of care of the club. The club will be punished, not the players. If WC and the Bulldogs sanctioned, authorised and directed the players to be out training in groups larger than pairs, then that's another story.

going to be interesting watching the AFL hand down sanctions to the crows - you know, make an example out of them as the breaker of rules...but then having to put up the same sanctions to West coast and the Bulldogs for also having more than 2 people together training at one time...ugly

Management at least handled this a bit better but they had to anyway. I still don't think much has changed. They should've been 'super onto' any breach.

https://twitter.com/will_tilley/status/1259700718455283712?s=20

I agree. Looking at the Crows list we could let them train for 6 months ahead of the rest of us and it still wouldn’t matter.

The wide stance was just social distancing ahead of their time.