Oh, forget it. The whole thing. There's no point even bothering with football when we live in a world that gives oxygen to the likes of Caroline Wilson and whichever other muppets are giving their expert opinion on how the 'crisis' should be handled.
Dane Swan is a good footballer. He went to a fundraiser and, from all accounts, represented himself and the club well. That's all that happened. No one died, no one was even hurt. No one should care.
But that's the problem with this country; the better you get at something, the more hurriedly morons like Wilson pursue you. They try and cut you down, to 'claim your scalp' and go running back to their corporate owners - who no doubt have seedier connections than any of Dane Swans - to try and make them proud. It's ugly, insidious and evil. These animals have no place in our game.
The great thing about the AFL is that it is embraces everyone. Whether you're a poor kid from an outer suburb, or the son of a Toorak millionaire, or from the bush; everyone is welcome. If you've got talent, and you work hard - you can make it. Attempting to censor that, to fix it in post, kills off what makes the game so good. Excluding any group from taking part in the game - especially when you're only doing it to appease a media primed for creating moral panic - is a slippery slope.
The end result of Caroline Wilson's selfish pursuit of minor indiscretions will be a reticence by clubs to take a punt on players with less than perfect upbringings. We'll be denied the joy of Andrew Krakouer and Swan in favour of cookie-cutter private educated flogs who can 'better sell the club to sponsors'.
This is about much more than a fundraiser. It's about saving our game from an army of gossip fiends who seek to exploit the game for a profit - presumably because they're not good enough to get a job at New Idea.
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