OPINION: Jason Shields

BACK in 2017, the Sunraysia Daily was booted out of the SFNL tribunal and told "this is a closed shop".

Having covered football tribunals in other regions for many years where tribunals are open to the media, it was a shock to hear the SFNL continued to operate as if a law unto itself.

At the time, I called out the league for its cloak-and-dagger approach to tribunal hea...