Has it occurred to you that the very confidential viewing that Dimma and other RFC reps may have been conditional on no controversial media response, or none at all i.e. the AFL wanting to silence and kill the topic for good, or else? Given how controlling an organisation it is with its billion $ concerns to guard and insulate as much as it possibly can from negative coverage, given they have already been in huge damage control re ongoing problems such as the indigenous complaints at Dawks inquiry, this likelihood is entirely credible and consistent with past practice.Because I think if we have lost a final because an incorrect overruling of an umpire's decision then we are entitled to know that and what is going to be done to address it in future.
The club opened the door by questioning the decision after the game and in the media following. To then go and have a tour and not follow up by letting everyone know where it stands is not good enough.
It's not like they have to blow up the AFL, we saw the footage and don't agree it was sufficient to overrule if all they needed to say.
Certainly the AFL only stood to lose more support/authority if continuing doubt over the whole debacle emerged, with RFC having nothing to gain as others have pointed out. What? Have the integrity of the whole finals program put under continuing strain against desiring highly positive promotions?
Quite simply, if the AFL has irrefutable proof of a correct adjudication, why has it not been made available to the full football community? Instead of a supposedly conclusive, belated, furtive/secret meeting with a couple of RFC officials? No wonder there's been no comment from us. AFL has almost total power, including over the media who cannot risk losing access to the AFL gravy train.
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