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This game was not only the best Grand Final post WCE in 1987 but the best game full stop in that whole time frame as well....by a long way.....it had more twists and turns in the plot than an Alfred Hitchcock film!

DD wrote: Don't want to be a party pooper but this GF win has a huge asterisk next to it doesn't it? You have spent the last 9 years paying for it. Mind you you can put an asterisk next to every premier over the last 10 - 15 years probably with the exception of SF, CL and WP under Harris and Dimmer.

Asterix? Only a tortured Perth supporter with nothing to show for the last 43 years would say that

I guess with Chad Jones not playing for CL in the GF swayed the result some what....thus the asterix DD has mentioned....how many goals did Chad kick that year....80+?

Freezin wrote: I guess with Chad Jones not playing for CL in the GF swayed the result some what....thus the asterix DD has mentioned....how many goals did Chad kick that year....80+?

Wasn't aware of that fact Freezin but was referring to the salary cap breaches Swans paid for that flag and the financial fallout that followed.

Swandog wrote:

DD wrote: Don't want to be a party pooper but this GF win has a huge asterisk next to it doesn't it? You have spent the last 9 years paying for it. Mind you you can put an asterisk next to every premier over the last 10 - 15 years probably with the exception of SF, CL and WP under Harris and Dimmer.

Asterix? Only a tortured Perth supporter with nothing to show for the last 43 years would say that

It's a known fact pal. It was a bought premiership. Live with that.

For those interested in the facts, here is an article written by John Townsend in 2013

Swan Districts will have to pay a fine of only $10,000 for their 2011 salary cap breaches after the WAFL arbitrator found the original penalty was "manifestly excessive".
The WAFL last year fined Swans the maximum $25,000 for eight declaration errors amounting to nearly $8000 from the 2011 season.

But arbitrator Brendan Taylor reduced the penalty after accepting the club's claim that the unrecorded payments had not caused it to break the cap.

Swans also argued that a lesser penalty was warranted because the club had cooperated fully with the WAFC investigation and had improved its player payment and recording procedures.
"I find that the penalty imposed of $25,000 was manifestly excessive," Taylor said in his findings.
"While the number of declaration errors for the 2011 season was significant and amounted to a serious breach of the rule, the mitigating factors … lead me to the conclusion that a fine of $10,000 ought to be imposed."
Taylor accepted Swans' claim that their 2011 processes were inadequate and affected by the departure within three months of chief executive Brendan Parker and finance manager Rochelle Parker.

DD wrote:

Swandog wrote:

DD wrote: Don't want to be a party pooper but this GF win has a huge asterisk next to it doesn't it? You have spent the last 9 years paying for it. Mind you you can put an asterisk next to every premier over the last 10 - 15 years probably with the exception of SF, CL and WP under Harris and Dimmer.

Asterix? Only a tortured Perth supporter with nothing to show for the last 43 years would say that

It's a known fact pal. It was a bought premiership. Live with that.

Did you get an asterix next to your wooden spoon for the salary cap breaches relating to Bossong?

Beasley Hutton wrote:

DD wrote:

Swandog wrote:

DD wrote: Don't want to be a party pooper but this GF win has a huge asterisk next to it doesn't it? You have spent the last 9 years paying for it. Mind you you can put an asterisk next to every premier over the last 10 - 15 years probably with the exception of SF, CL and WP under Harris and Dimmer.

Asterix? Only a tortured Perth supporter with nothing to show for the last 43 years would say that

It's a known fact pal. It was a bought premiership. Live with that.

Did you get an asterix next to your wooden spoon for the salary cap breaches relating to Bossong?

That was nothing more than a clerical error and Perth FC were dealt with very heavy handedly by the WAFC at the time, $20,000 fine later reduced to $10,000 on appeal. What did Swans get fined? We never benefited like Swans did. From memory Perth were in the frame for Andrew Krakouer but were no match for the BHP/Rio Tinto backed Swans.

DD wrote: Don't want to be a party pooper but this GF win has a huge asterisk next to it doesn't it? You have spent the last 9 years paying for it. Mind you you can put an asterisk next to every premier over the last 10 - 15 years probably with the exception of SF, CL and WP under Harris and Dimmer.

Absolute f.....g rubbish, Please explain what we have been paying over the last 9 years. Our losses were declared read again, losses on the books declared, so if they are declared for all to see and the WAFC investigation resulted in them finding that the losses were not from undisclosed payments to players then how is the premiership in anyway tainted.
Explain that boofhead.

and Swans were in the frame for Leon Davis and he went to Perth.
Swans were no match for the deal that Perth put on the table