whufc wrote:That's actually absolute rubbish if true Jim. If I was a GWS fan and that is the case I would be filthy as.
An AFL great has questioned why a former Collingwood star, who was celebrating in the club rooms after a finals win less than two weeks ago, was one of the Tribunal members for Toby Greene’s appeal.
September 18, 2019 7:38am
by Staff writers
Source: FOX SPORTS
Sep 20 2019
7:50PM
Greene surprisingly failed to have his one-game ban for making contact with Lachie Neale’s eye region overturned last night, despite the overwhelming vibe of those in the rooms and leading up to the hearing being the GWS star would escape and be able to play in Saturday’s preliminary final against Collingwood.
But now conspiracy theorists are running rampant after social media users pointed out that Tribunal member Shane Wakelin, who played 158 games for Collingwood, was in the Pies’ rooms after their qualifying final win over Geelong.
Asked by commentator Brian Taylor what he thought of the game, Wakelin said: “Just brilliant. I thought they’d run out of gas in that last 15 minutes but to their credit, they’ve played like that all year and they were excellent again. A couple of weeks off and hopefully they can go one step further this year.”
While no-one is suggesting anything less than professional happened, Essendon great Tim Watson asked why another member of the pool of Tribunal jurors wasn’t used.
“Do you think they went to the shallow end of the pool or they went to the deep end?” he said on SEN Breakfast .
Herald Sun reporter Sam Edmund explained: “We’re being a bit silly with it, but this is Roaming Brian after the first final.
“Shane Wakelin was actually in the Collingwood rooms … perhaps it’s just bad optics, as Gill McLachlan would say.
“I’m not saying they’re anything other than super professional, but I’m saying it’s a bad look. If you’re on an independent Tribunal, and to be in the rooms of a team that is contending at the very pointy end of the season (is a bad look).”
Greene and the Giants will appeal the decision.