Oh dear.
The problem now is that it could turn out that Quayle had this story completely wrong, and it wouldn't matter. The mud would still stick because we've eroded our good name away with the Tippett deal. People no longer give the Crows the benefit of the doubt because we simply don't deserve it anymore.
If there is some kind of breach for van Berlo I can't imagine it was deliberately done. It would have been completely unnecessary, almost ridiculously so.
I hope that all of this turns out to be a bit of overzealous reporting, but at this point I can't say I'm very confident. The AFC would want to have one hell of a showing on monday.
We may have lost some of our credibility but there are one hell of a lot of people out there that feels we are being screwed over especially regarding the Tippetts. I think the Tippetts are being viewed as the biggest pack of arseholes in the AFL system. As for other clubs I also believe that they feel for the AFC given that most of them have broken the rules but havent been caught. Our best answer to all of this is to perform well on the field next year. Just like the Storm has done. Lets face it the Storm lost all of its credibility but winning the flag this year has seen them bounce back into favour.