Scandal What's each clubs biggest scandal over the years?

[Oct19]

Melbourne's would be sacking Norm Smith.

 

[GreyCrow]

Melbourne's would be sacking Norm Smith.

Or Barrassi leaving?

 

[DrEvil_]

Melbourne's would be sacking Norm Smith.

Employing Neeld?

 

[Olian]

Suggestions for OP's original blanks below

Not sure COLA is a scandal given it was endorsed by the League. Edelston buying the club in the 80's when he couldn't afford it was one of the better moments.

 

[Balance]

Adelaide: Kurt Tippett
Brisbane: Fev
Carlton: Fev
Collingwood: Malthouse
Essendon: doping
Fremantle: Ross Lyon
Geelong: Ablett
Gold Coast: Harley Benell
GWS: Lachie Whitfield
Hawthorn: Hodge
Melbourne: Tanking
North Melbourne: Carey vs Stevens
Port Adelaide: drink driving
Richmond: D Martin
St. Kilda: Stephen Milne
Sydney: Buddy Franklin signing
West Coast: Cousins
Western Bulldogs: Hopefully we find out.

Good luck being a star player.

 

[Leeda]

I'm screaming with fury at your changing my comment from one thread to this one.. but now it is done it makes sense...

good luck with it all. aren't you glad I am a very flowery person and offer you my gifts with no questions asked..

 

[Dennis Trumpet]

Boris the chicken > Carey vs Stevens

 

[Red mist]

burningdwarf

 

[Wallaby]

Melbourne's would be sacking Norm Smith.

I thought about that - but it's not really a scandal, is it? It's not trying, via dubious means, to get one over the other clubs. It's not cheating. It's not acting like a bunch of d!ckheads to the competition in general. Players and coaches have been sacked for years.

It was just the board being monumentally stupid. All fair and legal, though. I don't think any other clubs got offended by it.

 

[eggtardo]

For the doggies it would be the Atkins brothers

 

[MisterMarcus]

handball. no wait it is tissues.. or is it shoes.. ?

Hawthorn's would be the disgraceful actions of that player Rushby Hinds in the 2008 GF.....

 

[blueiris]

For Fremantle it could be Siren Gate that was pretty big sure it was no fault of their own and it still gets brought up on radio

 

[ChickenSalt]

I reckon Adam Heuskes should get a mention for Brisbane.

For the Bulldogs the Boyd / Cordy punch on? Libba Jnr and his love of party enhancements? Or Libba seniors love of eye gouging? Or wasn't there a story about West and someone's wife?

 

[Upgrayedd]

Probably the lady stealing and selling hawthorn players medical records?

 

[WA ROO]

MAYBE the IV Drips we used during 2002/2003? Does the GH5 qualify as a scandal? Or how we dumped Voss?

I still say that if the IV's were used by Sheedy at Essendon or Malthouse at Collingwood
They would have been considered coaching genius

 

[LifeSpan-Void]

For Geelong, despite not pertaining directly to the club, it would have to be Ablett Sr/Alisha Horan. That Ablett's name is inextricably linked to the club brought more attention to it than anything else that Ablett Jr leaving or Stevie J getting done for speeding or Brownless and Lyon sharing a wife.

 

[Five Flags]

I reckon Adam Heuskes should get a mention for Brisbane.

Definitely Heuskes and several Brisbane teammates for their disgraceful efforts in London.

Heuskes also involved in another incident that probably could be considered as one of Ports bigger scandals, even though he wasn't playing for them at the time. The infamous heaven nightclub 'foursome'.

 

[Dwhale44]

Losing the 2014 & 2016 GF's

 

[Gough]

Probably the lady stealing and selling hawthorn players medical records?

Ours would be our *ahem* interesting approach to race, and recruitment for a long time.

 

[SmAshmoto]

Just had a thought, would the Dale Lewis drug whistle blowing count as a scandal?

 

[HTPunter]

Ours would be our *ahem* interesting approach to race, and recruitment for a long time.

I think I heard something about Hawthorn celebrating their 1000th game by Indigenous players this weekend? I have no stats for other clubs so I might be wrong in thinking it was odd but I remember thinking that was pretty damn few - as a quick add in my head North would have 200 odd from Thomas & Wells, and Pickett, Abraham, Krakouers x2, Motlop x3, Campbell all had 60-120.

Hawthorn have also had Rioli, Buddy & Burgoyne churn out a lot of games in the last decade.

 

[Allan Shorty]

This is your captain speaking - dogs mid-80s trip to Hawaii.

 

[TerryWallet]

St. Kilda,

How much time does everyone have?

For mine, The Sainters biggest scandal is surely that 50 years on, they still haven't fully paid their only Premiership players.

 

[schmuttt]

Wasn't there a big alleged coverup regarding a rape case and a certain Sydney forward in the early 2000s?

 

[Aramis]

Hawthorn's would be the disgraceful actions of that player Rushby Hinds in the 2008 GF.....

He was clearly not as affective as Cameron Choke in that game....