Darren Kane, Advocatus Diaboli from The Age, writes: "The only five grounds on which CAS awards can be challenged are listed in the statute. Some bases for appeal ... are irrelevant. Moreover, no such issues were raised by the parties before the CAS panel last November. It's too late to agitate such issues now. The remaining procedural basis on which the Swiss tribunal can annul a CAS decision is where the CAS affords the parties unequal treatment, or violates a party's right to be heard......The CAS decision frames the panel as manifestly untroubled in finding all the players guilty, in spite of a lingering, material confusion as to how that conclusion was reached. The final ground of appeal to the tribunal - and the only basis on which the merits of the Essendon decision are reviewable - is where a CAS award is incompatible with public policy. To this point, the Swiss concept of "public policy" is narrower than Australia's. Only the most exceptional cases, where an award violates fundamental Swiss legal principles and values - not Australia's - will enliven the power to annul the CAS decision." This is ridiculous, isn't it. These Australian players, playing Aussie rules are subject to Swiss legal principals, Swiss public policy and Swiss values. Please read, consider, and sign this petition. If you have already signed, thank you. Please share this petition using any of the links below. Thank you again for your support.