You can't make an example out of one person ...

[Legendary]

Let's say the council wants to crack down on people who park when their parking ticket has expired.

Normally every single day of the week it's a $60 fine on your windscreen.

However, the council are absolutely sick of it and decide that the red Holden which is parked in the city is going to be fined $60,000 and the driver is going to be jailed for six months.


Everyone supports the principle of not parking illegally.

But it is not just, fair, equitable or decent to single out ONE particular person who has broken this rule, and treat them differently to everyone else.


This is what has happened with Baker. The MRP have targeted an individual to use as an example because there are certain behaviours they no longer wish to tolerate on a wider level.

That is unfair.

That is a breach of legal principles.

That is a breach of common sense.


I've lost any interest in anything concerning the AFL except St Kilda now. I couldn't give a stuff about the game, about the players, about the organisation.

The whole thing is amateur hour, it's a joke and laughably inconsistent and unjust.

If the Saints don't appeal this, I may even just give up on them too ... as a club ... if you can't farking stand for something, what's the point of existing?


To those in the media and the public who support this ... please learn to separate the wider principle from the specific consequence.


The rule of law has underpinned our society for a long time, and it is the idea that everyone is equal before the law, and the law applies equally.
If it cannot be applied properly within a quasi-judicial system, then it leads to decisions such as this.
The Saints would have a case in the Supreme Court if they wanted to take it that far (provided any challenge is unsuccessful).

The whole system is a joke, the governing body is a joke and Adrian Anderson is the most incompetent, unprofessional and unintelligent man to ever be involved in AFL administration.

Nothing will relieve him of the consequences of what he is doing to destroy this competition.


If ever an authority has demonstrated that it is so out of touch with what is the essence of the game of football, it is Adrian Anderson and the MRP.

[longtimesaint]

well said! -We should fight this all the way to the courts if necessary as there has been a miscarriage of natural justice.

[gringo]

The Saints should sue the afl for more money from broadcast rights, then go after them for the extreme drafting concessions offered to the new franchises. Challenge Demetriou etc. for upping their own pay without justification. I wonder if they might get upset about being made an example of. While we are at it we should go public with a list of our penalized players as compared to the competition in the same period. A disgraceful overreaction designed to take focus from their incompetence in signing up to pay a fortune for a second rate stadium that will continue to have problems until it is handed back as a derelict development site. Time to bring in someone with some real ability rather than a time waster, pocket stuffing pudding head.