“You are trying to adjust the rules under which teams operate, under which clubs operate, and how players are being treated. And as a bare minimum, if you say, ‘Look, I think what’s happened here is, let’s take Geelong’s word, we’ve got a complex situation’. Well, if that was true and you were playing around the edges of the legal framework that our sport is prepared to work with, why wouldn’t that give you even more reason to take it to the AFL and the AFLPA and say, ‘Look, we’ve got a complex situation here. Could we have some of your knowledge and your advice how we should handle this’.
