""If you threw a Luke Power, Blake Caracella and a Daniel Bradshaw into the Geelong side then they would have been in a Grand Final. The AFL have to look at it and give every side the same chance … in fairness to sides such as Collingwood, Geelong, St Kilda and even Port Adelaide in recent times.""
""They (Brisbane) have made four Grand Finals in a row with a fair bit of help from the AFL. You need to be honest to your footy fans – the people that come through the gate each week. How can you justify providing them with the help they get?""
Over the past three years Brisbane has received salary cap assistance to the tune of almost $2 million. It has won three Premierships in that time and produced two Brownlow Medallists in Simon Black and Jason Akermanis.
""I talk to a broad base of fans in Victoria and around the country and they just want their team to get a fair crack at it. They made a decision to provide them with that assistance, it is now time to make another decision. And I’m saying this on behalf of the rest of the competition, not for the sake of Essendon,"" Sheedy said.
""All clubs deserve the same opportunity. When you think some are only paying 92.5% of the salary cap and Brisbane is getting an extra $600,000, it equates to about a $1 million difference. How will those clubs ever get the chance to play in a Grand Final?""
