Correct. For reference below, once the HFC had the report outlining serious allegations they were duty bound by the AFL’s protocol to hand over the report to the AFL integrity unit.
Depends a lot on whether any of the parties trot out the allegations in the future despite agreeing to the settlement.
What more did you want to go public? The court documented responses to the claims from the club (much of it that included references to evidence in the form of SMS and emails) made it pretty clear that largely what was claimed was a matter of personal perspective. Playing it out in court would have just been an expensive and hurtful spectacle for the players, families and former staff.
Agree. In the views of public opinion, there still remains a cloud over Hawthorn, and now we’ll never get to hear those allegations and rebuttals. Probably for the best I guess. Just glad it’s over tbh.
We know the allegations and rebuttals along with supporting evidence. You’ll probably find the links to those court documents somewhere in the last 30 pages.
We still don’t know what actually happened. 50thousand per person is not an overly large amount of money (if thats the case) . Pretty pissy outcome when you consider its two years of legal wrangling .
How do you think the player's leg rep comes out of this? A lot of huff and puff and then what.. neither a large financial settlement or payday nor a legal finding of guilt. Absolute crap from them.
for every single person and club involved.
Reading the WALKING TOGETHER statement on the website - released by the club in conjunction with the former players/partners, it is clear that the club openly accepts, as a matter of fact, that:
It is the reality of the situation. This whole thing was nuanced from start to finish, it wasn’t black and white.
I read it as "you should have swept this under the carpet".
