If you think this as innocent as the media portrays, and politics around players won?t become a factor - you?re lacking a real understanding of the local football environment.
All you need to do is look at the relationship between some of the key academy coaches and their linkages back to clubs.
And you may have forgotten a federation TD ended in the Fair Work Commission around issues of transparency a few years back after being sacked. And lost.
Yeah - people are making up s$$t