..i highly doubt the AFL has a special favouritism for Carlton..
They wanted Judd in Melbourne and they want Carlton to be successful.
It made sense that the deal would be signed off at AFL house.
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..i highly doubt the AFL has a special favouritism for Carlton..
For the entire duration of the deal, I have seen one piece of Visy branded advertising with Judd's image on it.
I may well be missing something here, but the work does not seem commensurate with the pay.
Under the contract, Chris will be involved in media, community, customer, staff and stakeholder programs which are likely to include:
• representing Visy’s existing national school education programs
•romoting recycling messages during Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week
• representing Visy at education forums for stakeholders
• media engagement for Visy’s environmental campaigns.
Both. The comments were about the impact of a carbon tax on Visy's recycling program, and Chris Judd's comments would carry more weight with the public than Tony Gray's.[/IMG]
However, the AFL were willing to change the rules again to make sure Judd came back to Victoria.
The AFL didn't change the rules for Judd. They changed the rules because of Judd.Edit:
The Judd deal stunk too.
However, the AFL were willing to change the rules again to make sure Judd came back to Victoria.
It's funny how everyone cries about how Judd's third party payments are illegitamate when in doing so fail to realise they are talking about VISY and giving them more and more exposure. That is the whole point of employing someone of high stature to be an ambassador for your company. Nobody else would attract anywhere near as much attention, which considering the fact he is an ambassador for their company, would suggest that maybe he is giving them some value afterall. I know for a fact he does attend and speak at corporate events involving VISY and have attended one myself. If people don't think VISY benefit from their partnership they are living in the clouds.
Megan Gale gets paid 1 million dollars a year to be an ambassador for David Jones yet I don't think I've seen her lift much of a finger either. Why should the fact that Chris Judd is a footballer limit his potential earnings outside football. The deal never would have been ticked off had VISY signing him not represented any value for them. It makes sense for VISY to employ a Carlton footballer considering their association with the club, why would they want to employ someone from another club? Should Judd provide his name and attend coroporate events for free?
They didn't change any rules. He was required to run the deal past them as per the conditions on the existing collective bargaining agreement and they sought clarification on the role and exactly what was involved and signed off on it.
It took Visy the best part of Judd's first season at Carlton, to develop the role so that it met the AFL's guidelines. Fair enough too, the idea was in its embryolic stage when Visy management approached Judd. Once he agreed, they then had to actually come up with some substance to the role. It's the same as Collingwood trying to flesh out the detail of Malthouse's role next year to his satisfaction.
It's funny how everyone cries about how Judd's third party payments are illegitamate when in doing so fail to realise they are talking about VISY and giving them more and more exposure.
The AFL didn't change the rules for Judd. They changed the rules because of Judd.
They wanted Judd in Melbourne and they want Carlton to be successful.
It made sense that the deal would be signed off at AFL house.
The whole competition is now manipulated by the AFL, not Collingwoods fault, but having them play 17 games at the 'G' gives them a huge advantage, the fact that clubs this year have played some teams twice already while not having played others once, has to have an effect on ladder positions, some clubs play the top teams twice this year and the GCS only once, that could be the difference between making the finals and missing out, I'm more concerned about this imbalance (all teams need to play each other twice a year) than some under the counter payments, but for the AFL to do this to the Dees is pretty harsh, both dimwittio and his sidekick anderson are schemers of the highest degree.
The game is so compromised that it is bordering on corruption. Draw, third party payments, MRP, umpires etc etc.
Now wonder crowds are down. Once again Carlton is allowed to cheat but not anyone else.
Dees should do whatever they want and then threaten the AFL with court action but as they provide funding they can do nothing but bend over and ask for some lube to ease the pain.
Its disgraceful because its so bloody obvious what their agenda is.
Perhaps they didn't change any rules per se.
But they did change their criteria for what would normally constitute a 3rd party payment.
Then Visy spent one year trying to meet this AFL criteria after already having it allowed. Arguably, this criteria should have been met prior to AFL approval.
Nobody knows anything about the Visy role, or what was presented to the AFL but they still run around screaming that Carlton are cheating.
Can't recall how many times I have said it on this board but "the new francises are GUARANTEED premierships. If they don't get 'em on their own, the AFL will do what it takes to make it happen. It is simply too important for the support in these areas."
This appears to be instance 1 of changing the rules to help GWS/GC. I seriously doubt it'll be the last. Just bad luck for Melbourne that they happend to be on the end of it this time.
Sucks
Can't recall how many times I have said it on this board but "the new francises are GUARANTEED premierships. If they don't get 'em on their own, the AFL will do what it takes to make it happen. It is simply too important for the support in these areas."
This appears to be instance 1 of changing the rules to help GWS/GC. I seriously doubt it'll be the last. Just bad luck for Melbourne that they happend to be on the end of it this time.
Sucks
The game is so compromised that it is bordering on corruption. Draw, third party payments, MRP, umpires etc etc.
Now wonder crowds are down. Once again Carlton is allowed to cheat but not anyone else.
Dees should do whatever they want and then threaten the AFL with court action but as they provide funding they can do nothing but bend over and ask for some lube to ease the pain.
Its disgraceful because its so bloody obvious what their agenda is.
Luke Ball