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CAUGHT OUT: Giants admit secret deal with Scullys father

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unrelated to his sons fiveyear, $6 million deal. The league said last night it had approved the arrangement, but would not say when it was first notified of the plan. The GWS Giants have

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Phil Scully will earn a fulltime salary as a recruiter for the club that poached his son from Melbourne last month. Embarrassed club officials went public about the arrangement only after being contacted by the Herald Sun. GWS will include Phil Scullys wages in the clubs salary cap an unprecedented ruling that raises questions about the Giants hiring of him. The message is the AFL was not convinced Phil Scullys employment was

notified the AFL of the appointment of Phil Scully and that (his salary) will be included in the clubs Total Player Payments, the AFL said last night. The AFL initially refused to discuss the Phil Scully situation yesterday. But it later confirmed it had approved the arrangement if his wages were included in the clubs Total Player Payments. Scully Sr has previously worked in recruiting for the Sydney Swans. The GWS recruiting team includes the father of their star signing, the son of coach Kevin Sheedy, Sam, and Neville Stibbard, stood down and then demoted over bullying claims this year.

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In the fourth of his series on Victorias top draft hopefuls, JAY CLARK talks to Horshams Seb Ross
REGARDLESS of where Sebastian Ross lands in the national draft, he will always have a special connection with Essendon. As the cousin of Jobe Watson, and nephew of club legend Tim, Ross has royal Bomber blood. The 187cm midfield hard nut, much like the Essendon captain, is renowned for his stoppage work. But, in another likeness to the young Jobe, the powerful left-footed onballer has been forced to lift his endurance. So when the challenge came to increase his running capacity to help build his inside/outside game, Ross knew who to call. Maybe the endurance is a genetic thing, Ross laughed. When he was drafted, Jobe wasnt the same player he is now. He has made a name for himself with how hard he has worked behind the scenes.

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Now he is one of the fittest guys at Essendon. Inspired by his cousin, the 18-year-old has this year undertaken a punishing training regime. At the

AGE: 18 | HEIGHT: 187cm POSITION: Midelder elder DRAFT RANGE: 30-50 GE IN THE MIX: Essendon (31), Bulldogs (49), Collingwood (50)
himself on a nearby oval in hometown Horsham. Having moved to Ballarat to further his footy, the teen whod like to base his game on Tiger star Dustin Martin

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start of the year I identified it as a part of my game to really work on, he said. It meant weekly boxing sessions, torturous interval training, and running by

upped the ante upon returning home on school holidays. He would sprint distances from 100 to 500m, then reverse the order, remembering not to eat beforehand in fear of it coming back up. As a result, he was able to maintain his high workrate late in games, and recorded some pleasing results at the draft camp this month. I was over the moon with the tests, it probably reflected a little bit of the hard work I had put in, he said. Ross, who represented Vic Country, was one of the Rebels leading midfielders, averaging 25 touches .

Done deal: Phil and Tom Scully shake hands on draft day in 2009 as mum Nardja and sister Jess watch proceedings.

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ALL-AUSTRALIAN Leon Davis has angrily denied claims he is homesick, telling friends his issue with Collingwood is purely financial. Davis looks certain to quit Collingwood and rebuff its one-year deal, despite contact with the Pies yesterday. New coach Nathan Buckley is desperate to keep 30-year-old Davis, seen as the perfect player to break the press of opposition sides. But Davis has told friends he feels Collingwoods demand he take a pay cut is embarrassing given his outstanding year. It is believed Davis was on $350,000 this year, but has been offered $250,000 for 2012. Davis, fifth in this months Copeland Trophy, is at home near Northam, 150km east of Perth. He is prepared to play for a WAFL club and is hopeful of picking up work in indigenous welfare or mentoring. His manager Liam Pickering told SEN yesterday Davis would be prepared to play in Adelaide or Perth next year. Janelle, his partner,

comes from South Australia, so if Port Adelaide or Adelaide were in the situation where they said, We think he can really add something to our group, well wed certainly be keen to talk to them, Pickering said. Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg said yesterday the club was unlikely to recruit Davis, with Fremantle and West Coast already out of the picture. Pickering denied the decision to leave was about money, saying returning to Perth was not a great surprise for anyone thats followed Leon over the last 10 years or so. But others close to Davis said he was prepared to play for a final year at Collingwood if the price was right. Premiership player Brent Macaffer had looked increasingly likely to join the exodus at Westpac Centre before the Davis situation arose. His manager Anthony McConville is waiting for the Pies to work out whether they can fit him on their list.

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Secret GWS deal with Scullys dad


GWSs hastily released statement last night said: The Greater Western Sydney Giants are pleased to confirm that Phil Scully has accepted a role with the clubs recruiting department and will begin work in January 2012. His new role will see him remain in Melbourne, working closely with (GWS list manager) Stephen Silvagni. Hes spent the last two years working for the Swans, but expressed

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an interest to the Giants about moving into a full-time position. He has had a lot of experience with the talent pathway in Victoria and he is going to be a valued addition to our team. His son Tom Scully signed with the Giants in September this year and will move to Western Sydney.

The Herald Sun is not suggesting that Tom Scully or his father Phil have done anything wrong. Attempts to speak to Phil Scully were unsuccessful. GWS did not say when it first approached Phil Scully about the job and the clubs chief executive Dale Holmes did not return calls yesterday. Coach Kevin Sheedy could not be contacted.

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full-time recruiter. Scully Sr will earn a six-figure salary, which will be included in the clubs salary cap in an unprecedented ruling. GWS did not cite the Scully Sr arrangement when confirming Holmes departure last night. The club admitted to the Scully son-father deal on Wednesday night, more than 24 hours after the Herald Sun had inquired about the arrangement. AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said GWS officials had informed the league of their intention to hire Scully Sr when his son agreed to their $6 million contract. It happened at about the same time but I think its important that the club has done the right thing by disclosing that arrangement, Anderson said. They were open about it and did exactly the right thing. Id certainly give them credit here . . . any other club could do the same thing. He said the club had not broken any rules or the spirit of the rules. But Anderson confirmed league investigators found Scully Srs hiring was related to his sons five-year deal.

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Michael Warner GREATER Western Sydney was in damage control last night after losing its chief executive amid the fallout from the Phil Scully salary cap farce.
Giants boss Dale Holmes was cut free on the same day the Herald Sun revealed Tom Scullys father had been employed by the club as a

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People can say what they want about the Melbourne footy club, but this just conrms to me that we are far better off without Scully at our club. Matthew, Kilmore I wonder how Scullys teammates will take the news that his old man is taking the dollars that should be in their pocket. Ash, Melbourne Its a disgrace, but as usual nothing will be done about it. Dave, Highett The Melbourne Football Club has acted with the utmost integrity when dealing with this Scully asco, which is more than I can say about the Scully family and GWS. Frank, Melbourne Name change coming for Sheedys mob, Greater Western Scully. All we need next is mum doing the pies and pasties and Jess cheerleading the Scullettes. Over Scully What a joke and blatant attempt to circumvent the rules. This is a taste of things to come from this disaster in waiting GWS. Jon, Preston Forget about loyalty. A couple of bad games and you are sacked at most clubs. Good on Scully for maximising his position and that of his dad while he can. Ken, Brisbane Its about time the powerhouse clubs of the AFL pull the plug on Demetriou and form a breakaway competition. The AFL needs to be punished for their dirty tricks. Peter, Hawthorn

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IF Phil Scully hasnt already penned his resignation letter, he should get to work in a hurry. For the good of his son Tom he should step aside. Scully Jr already has enough pressure on him, heading to GWS on a $6 million deal over six years. He had only recently slipped away from the spotlight and up bobs the old man. The last thing Scully needs is innuendo and headlines about his dad being paid overs to play a minor recruiting role. And, make no mistake, the fallout and whispers will continue. Imagine walking around being known as the only AFL club staffer in history to have his wage placed under the salary cap? Thats Phil Scullys lot now and surely he doesnt need the heat, regardless of the financial rewards. You can be certain Tom can do without it, too. Phil Scully should have read the play from the start and politely declined the offer. It would have been enough to say: Thanks, but no thanks I want Tom to be his own man and Im afraid of the baggage that could come with this. But clearly he couldnt resist the temptation and naively agreed. You cant begrudge him for wanting to turn a parttime spotting role at Sydney into a full-time recruiting gig but it would have made far more sense to better himself somewhere else. If he is such a good talent scout, other clubs would surely have come knocking anyway. He is now casting a massive shadow over his son and the fledgling club. Life was much simpler as a roof tiler. What a mess.

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Anything that is paid to a player or a relative of a player or to the benefit of a player that (AFL investigator) Ken Wood or our TPP team believes is some way connected with his services being a player for that club goes in the salary cap, Anderson said. So we obviously dont have control over who they employ, what we have control over is whether its actually linked in some way to a player being involved at that club. If it is then it goes in the salary cap. Thats whats happened in this case. Asked if the job for Scully Sr was an inducement for Scully Jr to sign, Anderson said: Ken must have come to the conclusion that in some way its connected with the players past, present or future services to the club, and that this opportunity may not otherwise have existed Anderson agreed the decision to allow a non-players wage to be included in a club salary cap was unprecedented. I cant think of any examples off the top of my head, he said. In a statement released last night, GWS claimed Holmes had resigned. Dale has come to the conclusion that it is in his best interests and that of the club for him to move on, the statement said. The former Kangaroo player is close to AFL chief Andrew Demetriou and former AFL executive, Football Federation Australia chief Ben Buckley. AFL game development manager Dave Matthews will soon start as the clubs acting chief executive. Senior league executive Andrew Dillon took up a temporary post as GWS boss last August after Holmes took leave unexpectedly.

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other than for the fact that Tom is playing with the club. He revealed Scully Srs wage would be counted in the salary cap, which is $1 million higher than rival clubs. From what I understand . . . they (GWS) were very up-front, transparent about what was going on and accepting of Kens decision, Anderson said. Three-quarters of more than 3000 fans on a Superfooty.com poll yesterday called on the AFL to reassess the Scully ruling.

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Welcome aboard: Tom Scully signs on as a Giant in September, 10 months after his father Phil was secretly offered a job with the club. Picture: JUSTIN LLOYD

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TOM Scullys father was offered a six-year contract worth $680,000 to work as a recruiter for Greater Western Sydney in November last year. Michael Warner
The Herald Sun has obtained a copy of a Letter of Offer to Phil Scully signed by GWS football boss Graeme Gubby Allan on November 10, 2010 12 months before the contentious deal was made public. It reveals Scully Sr was guaranteed a job until October 2017 as the clubs Melbourne-based recruiting scout on an annual salary of $100,000, with an increase of 5 per cent every year. The document raises fresh questions about whether Tom Scully agreed to join the expansion club during an AFL-endorsed signing window in November 2010.

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NEW Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney has subjected his players to a brutal first week of training, determined to return them to the snarling competitive beasts of previous seasons. McCartney told his team to bring their mouthguards on Friday for a tackling and contested-ball drill, putting his stamp on a side that struggled in close last year.

McCartney plays it tough from the start

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Dogs players have noted the physicality of training, with McCartney keen to play an uncompromising hard ball-winning style. Through a combination of reasons the Dogs lost their edge last year, and McCartney is keen to see them return to playing contested football.

Forward Jarrad Grant said yesterday the players had been left in no doubt about McCartneys desire for a tough game plan. We started Monday and it was a really solid week, he said. We have been thrown the footies a lot earlier than usual and there is a lot more competitive stuff, which has been the big focus for Macca. We were good (in that

area) in 2008 and 2009 and we have dropped off in the last couple of years . . . there is no reason we cant get it back. Bulldogs football manager James Fantasia said the pillars of McCartneys game plan were clear. What he has done is incorporating our learning straight into competitive situations, so last week was

quite unique for our blokes. There arent too many preseasons where you come back and put your mouthguards in straight away. Its part of the way he is rolling out our learning about the way we will be playing. The Dogs are confident all their injured players will be in full training by Christmas, including Adam Cooney

(knee), Brian Lake (knee), Tom Williams (foot) and Dale Morris (leg). Williams had surgery on a navicular fracture late in the season and will be eased back. Hes going well, Fantasia said. He did the injury with about three weeks (left in 2011) and had started his rehab before the boys left (for the break), so he has been in rehab for while.

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AFL umpires boss Jeff Gieschen has rejected an approach to coach WAFL club Claremont. But Gieschen confirmed his passion to coach again was undimmed. Once a coach, always a coach, Gieschen said last night. Im always interested in coaching, no doubt. At some stage, I would like to give something back. But Im passionate about what I do at the moment and Im completely focused on that. Gieschen said he had been impressed by the professional approach from Claremont, but thought the timing to re-enter the coaching ranks was not right. There was some interest, but I told them I was unavailable, he said. I said it was not quite the best timing right now. Gieschen has a strong standing in WAFL ranks, turning West Perth from easybeats into a strong club in three years. He went on to coach Richmond in the AFL from late in the 1997 season through to 1999, taking the Tigers to ninth place in 1998. Now a long-term AFL employee, Gieschen has clearly left the the door ajar for a return to coaching. But the role of umpires boss would not allow him time to combine two jobs.

Frost warms to true love


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IF Sam Frost is picked up by an interstate club in next weeks national draft, he will have no problems shifting from home. Thats no disrespect to his family or friends, but it wasnt long ago that Frost wanted to move overseas to pursue his dream of playing basketball in the US college system. But like so many other talented youngsters, juggling two sports and school became too much for him. The 194cm Frost was forced to make a choice. In the end it wasnt a tough choice, he said. Id always played both, always loved both, but I was emergency for the state basketball team and doing a heap of other stuff and just burned out a bit. After that I just lost a bit of motivation for basketball and started liking footy a bit more. By the time I had to make a choice, it seemed pretty obvious which was the right way to go. Another sport, volleyball, took up a lot of Frosts time at high school, but not as much as some might suggest. Everyone seems to think I have this massive volleyball background, but that isnt really true, Frost said. It wasnt anything big. I moved to Wesley (College) and played in the first team for a few years. I did go to an AIS selection camp, but I was never serious about it. I cant remember where the rumours started. I love the sport, but its not my background.

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GWS was forced to include Phil Scullys wages in the clubs salary cap an unprecedented ruling based on the finding that his hiring was directly related to his sons decision to quit Melbourne. On the basis of the Letter of Offer, the Giants will have $680,000 less to spend on players in a six-year period. GWS chairman Tony Shepherd said last month his board knew nothing of Phil Scullys employment as a recruiter before September, when Tom officially agreed to join the Giants in a five-year, $6million deal. The AFL said

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it was notified of the arrangement at the same time. Responding to questions about the Scully letter yesterday, a GWS spokesman told the Herald Sun: An offer was made to Phil Scully to join the GWS Giants as a recruiter in November last year. The then chief executive of GWS Dale Holmes was aware of the offer. Phil Scully officially accepted the offer last month when his appointment was announced by the club in a media release. We look forward to Phil making a valuable contribution to the club in his role as a recruiter based in Melbourne given his previous experience as a recruiter with the Sydney Swans. Holmes was cut free as Giants chief executive on the same day the Herald Sun revealed Phil Scully had been employed by the club as a full-time recruiter. Scullys second season at Melbourne was overshadowed by speculation he would succumb to a massive financial lure and leave. The 20-year-old midfielder officially walked out on the club on September 12 this year, maintaining his decision to go was only made at the conclusion of the season not during the signing window in November 2010 as suspected by many in the football industry. Asked about his fathers job by the Herald Sun last week, Scully said: There was nothing under the table about it. The club was planning on announcing it, but it hadnt been finalised. My dad was still contracted to the Swans until November 1 (this year), so they couldnt finalise anything until then. There was no conflict of interest . . . it is wrong to accuse the club of trying to hide it. They didnt. In the Letter of Offer signed by Allan, the GWS football boss told Scully Sr: Western Sydney Football Club is pleased to offer you a contract of employment with us as our Recruiting Scout. This position is to commence from 1 November 2011 and will cease 31 October 2017. We look forward to you becoming part of the club. Western Sydney Football Club is now known as GWS.

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