Conspiracy theory.

[King Kong]

The AFL was happy for us to win in 2017 but everything in the AFL's prospectus is skewed towards spreading out success as evenly as possible.
The 2019 flag was not in their playbook. Gil needed his baby to be successful to justify the enormous expenditure. It was then that the tide turned against us.
By 2020 they were doing everything they could to stop us.

Yep after we flogged Gilligan's 2nd team and embarrassed all involved in Gee Wizz's creation we've been enemy no.1.

 

[The Mole]

But since then, we have been disruptive.

Brendan and Peggy do not sing from the AFL hymn book, and, through success and integrity, have developed the clout and respect to push back.

Back then, we were a cute story, to be patronised. Then we became a disruptor. We won the wrong way, and too often. We held back the love child. We were precocious, and then dominant. We ruined the first interstate grand final. We challenged the fixturing. We badmouthed their stadium. We defied equalisation.

He may have wanted us to fill their pockets for a season. But he oversaw a radical change to the fabric of the sport, specifically designed to hobble us.

It is us against the world.

This

 

[tigerman]

Do you think the AFL has it in for us because we stuffed up their master plan by smashing GWS in 2019?

First of all it was the Crows, Gilligan's a Croweater, then it was his love child GWS , and then it was Shockings Scats.

Be good to pump the Suns in the finals if they make it.

 

[Baloo]

Latest twitter whisperings is that Josh seeded that story to the media himself and the AFL were surprised to hear he had been approached. Goyder strangely embarrassed by the media "leak".

Pretty much confirmed now. Josh seeded the story