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Senior Seagull wrote: FMD, just watched the Dorrington interview, had to stop before I threw up. Talk about wanting to rewrite history. What a self serving self promoting wanker, surely the committee can see through his bullshit, if not all is lost and the inquiry is a complete waste of time and tax payers money.

Yep, pretty much what I thought, covering tracks big time as well.

Thought Wayne Martin did fairly well, even if he did get the stand wrong that sent WAFL broke, it was the 2 tier not the 3 tier.

Dorro proved he is a seasoned campaigner..

What i find odd is the enquiry panel discussing what the AFL draft age should be. None of there business, not their jurisdiction.

DD wrote:

Senior Seagull wrote: FMD, just watched the Dorrington interview, had to stop before I threw up. Talk about wanting to rewrite history. What a self serving self promoting wanker, surely the committee can see through his bullshit, if not all is lost and the inquiry is a complete waste of time and tax payers money.

Exactly my thoughts. I found it late last night. Dorrington came across as an "I"(eye) specialist, name dropper and spin doctor. He's been pedaling this rubbish for years and clearly thinks of himself as a kind of lobbyist/power broker in football and that is precisely the problem with the WAFC.

They think they know better than everyone else so they just say leave it to me, trust me and we will handle it. It's like an elite club.

I thought Tony Butti was outstanding and precisely on point in pointing out that despite Dorros spin on it, it is not a good look for transparency. His communications both verbal and in email gave a fairly strong impression of a don't bite the hand that feeds you threat.

Then Catania I think his name is also made a good statement about the perceived impression there is too much power at the top and members of the two AFL clubs and grass roots football don't get enough say and consideration.

Then Dean Nalder spoke, His opening was about how far back they go when Dean first played under Eddie Pitter (I assume at EP) and how often their paths have crossed since so straight away I knew there wasn't going to be an hard and fast scrutiny from Nalder of Dorrington.

Never the less I liked (though found it unusual in a parliamentary enquiry) that he discussed raising the age limit from when young players can be drafted. Again Dorrington went off into spin mode going on about his grand kids and talking about how most clubs these days have Chaplin's and of course Neale Fong gets another honorable mention about when he was Chaplain of the WCE. No doubt Dorro is anticipating Fong will be the new WAFC CEO and Dorrington will be guaranteed a seat on the commission. Lets hope not.

"I've been in this wonderful game this long and served in this, this and that...." Thanks for your time Dorro but it's time for a fresh set of minds that don't believe the WAFC has to operate like some secret high society.

Teal Cup days in the mid 80s.

Ohh .. but it was ok for the WAFL CEOs to bring up kids /grandkids and buying membership at WAFL clubs... Very funny stuff.

Sounds like Dorro is a WAFL tragic and like the Swans u idiots throw him under the bus.

He’s a WAFC commissioner, not sure where it says in his job description he is has the right to tell a WAFL club not to put in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry.
Not very transparent behaviour

Grubby club members spilling private conversations- simple as that.

Who takes a one on one conversation and exploits it.... Putrid.

Leadership and transparency starts at the top.

this story gets even better - a WAFC commissioner says this - Mr Dorrington said he did not fully appreciate “the scope, the role and the actions of this committee” and did not understand that his “interactions with Mr Dennis could be construed in the manner that they have been”.

from todays West:

West Australian Football Commissioner Grant Dorrington told a second Swan Districts official that the club should not make a submission to the State Government public accounts committee inquiry into the WAFC’s use of government funding.

A statement by Swans’ board member Des Hardiman said Mr Dorrington urged the club to address concerns with the WAFC privately rather than through a PAC inquiry submission while at a president’s lunch at the club on July 18.

Mr Dorrington was questioned on Tuesday over comments to Mr Hardiman and a July 14 email to Swans’ chief executive Jeff Dennis that urged the Swans not to “lodge papers” with the inquiry.

Mr Dorrington issued a “sincere and unreserved” apology for what he claimed was the wrong impression created by poor use of words on his behalf. He denied trying to “impede or interfere” with the inquiry.


“My intention was to suggest an approach which I thought would present a unified front for WA football to the public and allow us to resolve our differences internally and in private,” he said.

“I have always been of the view that it is more productive to sort out any differences within the footy family and not play them out in the public domain as it can often damage the brand and hinder progress.”

Mr Dorrington said he did not fully appreciate “the scope, the role and the actions of this committee” and did not understand that his “interactions with Mr Dennis could be construed in the manner that they have been”.

“I categorically state that my actions were not a formal position or directive of the WAFC, but my own personal views based on my football dealings over decades,” he said.

Committee chairman Tony Buti, who said he was “very troubled” by the email, put it to Mr Dorrington that his email to Mr Dennis was effectively a request “that his club not make a submission”.

Mr Dorrington replied: “Those words in my email in hindsight I should not have put those words down.”

The inquiry is probing how the WAFC uses the $11 million it is given each year by the State Government.

It came in the wake of a salary scandal where it was leaked that the WAFC pays about $9 million to its 134 staff, with 23 employees pocketing at least $100,000.