One for the conspiracy theorists......... we know good leadership is about consistency, and league chief executive Andrew Demetriou is mightily proud of the role his organisation plays in the community.
Indeed, he knocks up telling players they must accept they are role models in society.
Yet all we have from the AFL is silence and from Carlton a contingency plan to ensure Pratt remains president if gaming authorities who oversee the club's right to poker machines rule he is unsuitable to hold a licence.
By saying and doing nothing in the face of Carlton's actions, the AFL is effectively condoning Pratt's offences.
The fact that Demetriou, between 2002 and 2006, was non-executive chairman of a waste management company in which Pratt's company had invested heavily would play no part in any league decision to remain silent.
But it is the sort of thing that leaves Demetriou, and therefore, the AFL, open to the conspiracy theorists.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,22709527%255E19742,00.html