The AFL wishes to advise that General Counsel Andrew Dillon today wrote to the GWS Giants Football Club to charge the club under AFL Rule 2.3, in regard to the investigation involving listed-player Lachlan Whitfield and former club officials Graeme Allan and Craig Lambert.

Mr Dillon said the Club had been charged for ‘… conduct which is unbecoming or likely to prejudice the interests or reputation of the AFL or to bring the game of football into disrepute’, arising from the conduct of Whitfield, Allan and Lambert.

The hearing of the charge has been provisionally set down for determination at the AFL Commission meeting on 13 December 2016.

As background to all media, the AFL Commission has the power to deal with any matter in connection with the AFL Rules and impose any sanction on any Person/Club contravening the AFL Rules on any terms or conditions seen fit.