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GREATER Western Sydney last night admitted employing the father of superstar signing Tom Scully.
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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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.
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.
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WHAT YOU SAID
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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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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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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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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