Breach boys - and all their hits

Former Carlton president Ian Collins says the salary cap scandal set the Blues back 10 years. Picture: Wayne Ludbey. Source: Herald Sun

SALARY cap scandals are nothing new in the AFL.

Carlton was most recently punished for serious breaches of league rules in 2002.

The Blues were fined $930,000 and stripped of crucial draft picks for payments made over four years to Fraser Brown and Stephen O'Reilly and agreements to pay Craig Bradley and Stephen Silvagni.

The rorts cost them the first two picks in the 2002 national draft and the first two picks in the 2003 national draft.

Former Carlton president Ian Collins says the salary cap penalties set the club back a decade.

"At the time I said it would cost 10 years, and it's basically almost 10 years. When you look at it, it did what the (AFL) set out to do," he said last year.

In 1996, Essendon was fined $388,500 and ordered to pay a further $250,000 in back-tax after an Australian Tax Office investigation into draft tampering revealed it had breached the salary cap by $514,500 between 1991-96.

It was banned from the subsequent pre-season draft, rookie draft and first three rounds of the national draft. That year, 10 other clubs were fined for minor breaches.

Melbourne incurred a fine of $600,000 in 1999 and was barred from the first three rounds of the 2000 national draft.

Sydney was also punished for serious breaches in 1987 - the first year of the AFL salary cap.

But rival NRL lays claim to Australian sport's biggest salary cap scandal. In 2010, Melbourne Storm was stripped of two premierships, fined $500,000 and banned from earning premiership points for the rest of the season.

Club chiefs had breached the salary cap by $1.7 million over five years by keeping a second (secret) set of payment books.

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