Richmond believe they are well prepared to enter the AFL’s new era of ramped up integrity departments.
The AFL has indicated it wants every club to have its own integrity officer, but the Tigers are adamant they already have a structure in place to short-circuit potential problems.
It is a bi-product of Ben Cousins arriving at Punt Rd in 2009 as controversial recruit with a lot of baggage.
“In a lot of ways we had those processes in place … we can certainly do more, but it stemmed back to when we recruited Ben Cousins and some of the measures we had to put in place to deal with those issues,” Richmond president Gary March told Seven News.
“I think it has put us well placed to deal with some of the requirements the AFL has put in place with clubs going forward.”
Key Tigers officials met with AFL powerbrokers Andrew Demetriou and Gillon McLachlan last week, with the league delivering a stern message in the wake of the Essendon drugs saga.
All clubs are meeting with league heavies on the issue of integrity.
March said the integrity of the game was paramount.
“Every club will be different … obviously the events of recent times have really potentially damaged the brand of AFL football and brand of AFL clubs and we’ve all got a role to play in restoring integrrity,” March said.
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Let's see some good quality games of AFL this year. I am in Ningbo China and with only 8 million people here I get lonely. So am looking forward to some top games.
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1 ReplyHey Prof I can assure you there are ounces of integrity in the AFL, however it is weighted down in the system and to some degree hidden, so matters like this are at best never discussed
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ReplyCongratulations to Richmond firstly for picking him up in the draft, every person should be given a second chance, and Ben as far as I am concerned was and is the ideal candidate to test that theory and prove true, a case by case here in very important as Fevola also proved in a more adverse scenario, as with Wayne Carie and is still going on, so I say the Media should look at the drugs they take on writing such tripe.:)
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