Votey Voteless Joe Bordanaro:
Video shows footy player tampering with best-and-fairest count
A COUNTRY footy champ has been rubbed out for five years after a sting discovered he was rigging the votes in a best-and-fairest count.
Mirboo North star Joe Bordanaro, a three-time league B & F winner, was sensationally exposed on video tape on Channel Nine news last night as he raided offices where the votes are kept.
Calling Joe a "country footy champ" (and reserves player, at that) makes about as much sense as calling the Spanish Paralympic basketball team "champs" after they faked being disabled.
"IT AIN'T SO"
Player caught tampering with umpire votes
Bordonaro last night contacted The Age through his lawyer, Garry Woodhams, to say that he’d done nothing wrong and that he would be lodging an appeal against his suspension today.
Which leaves the crucial question unanswered: is it Bordanaro or Bordonaro?
So the guy who gets caught tampering with the vote cards (liquid paper! talk about a suspicious vote card) is a three-time B&F winner, and gets suspended for years
From the second link... "He won last year’s reserves best-and-fairest count with 32 votes; second was Trafalgar’s Cohan Lee on 18."
Surely the past results must also be suspect too. Last year must have been a blinder of a season, or he has fudged those votes too.
Posted by: TKYCraig | 12 August 2009 at 19:20
All very true, TC.
What puzzles me most, and it's not mentioned anywhere, is how he managed to get such easy access to the votes?
Posted by: Tony | 14 August 2009 at 11:40
It's not like he's rigging a presidential election Tony, I doubt they had armed guards.
Posted by: Yobbo | 16 August 2009 at 12:49
Hat tip for the title, MrT.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080909185955AAUMP1h
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 16 August 2009 at 14:13
this is the biggest news story in oz for channel 9? and i missed it by being o/s?
Posted by: fxh | 19 August 2009 at 07:47
anyway - why dind't they just take away the fairest prize - he still might be best if not the uh, er, cough, fairest.
Posted by: fxh | 19 August 2009 at 07:49
FX, are you still in the UK? I'd avoid London if I were you.
Posted by: Tony | 24 August 2009 at 17:20
How the feck did he get off? And now he's "thinking" of suing.
Sorry. Something about walking and swimming and quacking like a duck.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 09 September 2009 at 14:02