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not really Leedy - we didnt go into administration - we took the hit, paid our bills ourselves and bottomed out on-field.

Apologies for going off topic but started with the Loopy lad from up north flapping his gums over his clubs rise up the ladder. A lot of tainted successes in the WAFL it seems. Do you have to cheat to win, is that what it's come to?

MarkOlsen wrote: not really Leedy - we didnt go into administration - we took the hit, paid our bills ourselves and bottomed out on-field.

We also did not have our entire players, coaches & administration staff paid for and continue to be paid for by the Football Commission!

MarkOlsen wrote: they did investigate DD and found they didnt overpay which would mean it was off the books, every club has ways to pay players off the books, Swans just didnt have the finances to keep covering it !

In the end the fine was $10k and no there was never any evidence of overpayments of the Salary Cap.
I reiterate, Hodyl wouldn't have a clue about any supposed other payments to players.
Hodyl like to bring up things he knows nought about just to deflect the fact that he has done nothing to take the club forward in his tenure as President.
In the press he referred to problems in 2013, I am unaware of anything else that happened in 2013 other than it was then he and Holmes took over the football dept and that still remains our biggest problem.

I still think Perth will make the Finals. With a Home game this week hosting East Fremantle. One would think a winnable game for them. Having said that, The Sharks would be travelling to Lathlain with confidence after winning the week before. Perth then being on the road in the closing qualifying fixture should be notching up the win. The problem with the Demons having a low %. They would need to put their skates on and have a higher winning margin as possible to bring the percentage higher.
Be interesting to see the finishing order of Claremont and West Perth, whom are currently on the same premiership points and close percentages. They would both prefer a Home Final.

Don't you mean the finishing order of Claremont and Souths WAG? They play each other this week so that will go a long way to deciding who gets the home final as Souths have WP in the last game at Joondy which won't be easy and Claremont have SD at home which you'd think they'd win. Souths need to win this week to be any chance of finishing second you'd think.

it might be that East Perth hold the key to the Demons' finals chances this Friday night

BC wrote: Don't you mean the finishing order of Claremont and Souths WAG? They play each other this week so that will go a long way to deciding who gets the home final as Souths have WP in the last game at Joondy which won't be easy and Claremont have SD at home which you'd think they'd win. Souths need to win this week to be any chance of finishing second you'd think.

Oops, a momentary lapse in my last posting. Should have said Souths and Claremont. There is less that a percent separating them. From memory Claremont won the last encounter between these two by 2 or 3 goals. Given the fact South Fremantle have won their last 3 matches quite convincingly and Claremont losing one of their last 3 and narrowly winning 2, South would go in as favourites this week I'd think. Would be fantastic for the competition for West Perth to win this week but can't see them knocking off Subi. Although the previous match between the two only had a difference of 20 to 25 points in the Lions favour. The final qualifying round 20 will be interesting. 4 games on the Saturday and one match Sunday I believe.

MarkOlsen wrote: not really Leedy - we didnt go into administration - we took the hit, paid our bills ourselves and bottomed out on-field.

Thats a pile of horse shit if I have ever heard it. I know of 2 x players that are yet to be payed for that season, how many more are there ??? to add to that why do you think Twomey & Robinson pissed off to $ubi ???. The reason Swans didn't pay all their players is to avoid our situation. We had disgruntled suppliers, you blokes had disgruntled players, same shit, different bucket.

Beas, please mate.........see above !