McGuire: AFL is five years too late

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire says the AFL's call on Chris Judd's deal with Carlton sponsor Visy is five years too late. Picture: Wayne Ludbey. Source: Herald Sun

THE AFL's decision to include Chris Judd's third-party deal within Carlton's salary cap for 2013 has come five years too late, according to Collingwood president Eddie McGuire.

And rather than mourning the AFL's decision to pull the plug on the deal, as revealed in the Herald Sun, the Blues should be popping champagne corks that they were to get away with it for so long.

"The fact that it has been changed is like the AFL saying they mucked up the rule in the first place, or for however long Chris Judd has been there," McGuire said yesterday.

"He has been basically paid out of the salary cap all of that time.

"According to the AFL's position now, Carlton has had a free kick of more than $1.2 million on the salary cap over the past five years compared to other clubs."

Judd's Visy deal is understood to be between $200,000 and $250,000 a season.

One of the leading critics of the controversial deal, and of other AFL inequities, McGuire said he was pleased the AFL had changed itsmind.

"Adrian Anderson (AFL football operations manager). Andrew Demetriou (AFL chief executive officer) and Ken Wood (AFL salary cap watchdog) sat down and realised this was something that was wrong," he said. "And they ditched it."

McGuire said he didn't care if the Blues were angry that he led the charge in opposition to the deal.

Blues chief executive Greg Swan yesterday joked he had to check the AFL letter to "see if it was signed by Eddie or Adrian."

But McGuire said he said he wanted a fair and level playing field for all clubs, not just for Collingwood.

"I have said from the word go that I don't care how much anyone pays Chris Judd, as long as every club has the opportunity to do the same thing," he said.

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