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Quick one, how many trades do we get in Round 12 (no byes) ? Is it 2 or 3 ? Cheers 
"The SuperCoach trade limit of 30 will be increased to 34, with an extra trade (three per round) available for coaches to use from rounds 9-12."
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Big Story!! Wonder if this will be investigated?
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/af...l/news-story/620c4d5cd5ee549470860bd9fae6c9b2
Explosive report claims Hawthorn cheated salary cap during golden era
Hawthorn great Don Scott has made a remarkable claim about how his former club systematically cheated the salary cap during their golden era.
Hawthorn won four flags between 1986 and 1991 with Scott’s claims revealing secret bank accounts were used in Tasmania in order to help pay for some of the competition’s biggest names.
“Hawthorn were breaching the salary cap,” Scott said on the No Merger podcast, which was forst revealed by the Herald Sun.
“The only reason Hawthorn held all those star players and had success was that they were paying under the cap. They had a bank account down in Tasmania and they were paying the players that way.
“They were contravening the salary cap and that is why those players stayed at Hawthorn because of the money they were receiving.
“So consequently there has got to be a day of reckoning and that came for Hawthorn.
“They were cash strapped.”
Scott’s comments are set to expand on a soon to be released podcast on the club’s failed merger with Melbourne.
Hawthorn had some of the biggest players in the competition throughout their golden era, including Jason Dunstall, Dermott Brereton, Michael Tuck and Robert DiPierdomenico.
But Scott believed some wouldn’t have any idea of the payment structure, given they were just paid the money without knowing where it came from.
“They were paying wives, they were paying girlfriends. They were doing a lot of things back then,” Scott said.
“It was like the Roman Empire (at Hawthorn). It was decadent. It is (cheating). But everyone cheats. Everyone was doing it. It was rife through the AFL.”
Scott also revealed former president of Hawthorn, Phillip Ryan, had warned the club about the incident when taking over as commissioner of the league’s player payments.
“They put money into an account down there. They (the players) would get a cheque from something that was unrelated to the footy club. Back in those days you could do a lot of different things with bank accounts,” he said.
The scheme was reportedly run by former Hawthorn administrators, who have since passed away.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/af...l/news-story/620c4d5cd5ee549470860bd9fae6c9b2
Explosive report claims Hawthorn cheated salary cap during golden era
Hawthorn great Don Scott has made a remarkable claim about how his former club systematically cheated the salary cap during their golden era.
Hawthorn won four flags between 1986 and 1991 with Scott’s claims revealing secret bank accounts were used in Tasmania in order to help pay for some of the competition’s biggest names.
“Hawthorn were breaching the salary cap,” Scott said on the No Merger podcast, which was forst revealed by the Herald Sun.
“The only reason Hawthorn held all those star players and had success was that they were paying under the cap. They had a bank account down in Tasmania and they were paying the players that way.
“They were contravening the salary cap and that is why those players stayed at Hawthorn because of the money they were receiving.
“So consequently there has got to be a day of reckoning and that came for Hawthorn.
“They were cash strapped.”
Scott’s comments are set to expand on a soon to be released podcast on the club’s failed merger with Melbourne.
Hawthorn had some of the biggest players in the competition throughout their golden era, including Jason Dunstall, Dermott Brereton, Michael Tuck and Robert DiPierdomenico.
But Scott believed some wouldn’t have any idea of the payment structure, given they were just paid the money without knowing where it came from.
“They were paying wives, they were paying girlfriends. They were doing a lot of things back then,” Scott said.
“It was like the Roman Empire (at Hawthorn). It was decadent. It is (cheating). But everyone cheats. Everyone was doing it. It was rife through the AFL.”
Scott also revealed former president of Hawthorn, Phillip Ryan, had warned the club about the incident when taking over as commissioner of the league’s player payments.
“They put money into an account down there. They (the players) would get a cheque from something that was unrelated to the footy club. Back in those days you could do a lot of different things with bank accounts,” he said.
The scheme was reportedly run by former Hawthorn administrators, who have since passed away.
North Melbourne used to give their players brown paper bags full of money after games during the Carey era.
Costa used to make "donations" to the Cats after games.
Daicos would find $$$ in his boots
Lions were getting travel vouchers for themselves and families worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Bradley , Kernahan & Williams had a landscaping business at Carlton and their girlfriends/wives were getting paid for being typists.
When the Swans were after Walker , they were going to fly his parents to Sydney from Broken Hill any week they wanted , and pay for his then girlfriends Uni course in Sydney.
Been going on for years and still is , no way any club is under the salary cap these days.
Investigate them all.
Costa used to make "donations" to the Cats after games.
Daicos would find $$$ in his boots
Lions were getting travel vouchers for themselves and families worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Bradley , Kernahan & Williams had a landscaping business at Carlton and their girlfriends/wives were getting paid for being typists.
When the Swans were after Walker , they were going to fly his parents to Sydney from Broken Hill any week they wanted , and pay for his then girlfriends Uni course in Sydney.
Been going on for years and still is , no way any club is under the salary cap these days.
Investigate them all.
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