Recently revealed emails show ASADA and the AFL had worked out a 'secret deal' on how to handle the investigation into the Essendon Supplements scandal. New emails reveal how the deal was set up.

To: ASADA

From: AFL

Hey,

Could we get some sort of ‘secret deal’ on this peptides stuff? We’ll send you a few free tickets if you’re interested.

To: AFL

From: ASADA

Sure! What are you thinking?

These free tickets aren’t to GWS games are they?

To: ASADA

From: AFL

Just something that says we’ll do this jointly, that all our players will be either completely exonerated and/or have no penalties. Nothing out of order.

Would be good to wrap this up before the 2013 finals. We don’t want this going on forever!

The tickets will be to real AFL games. Good seats too. We’ll even buy you a couple of pies.

To: AFL

From: ASADA

Alright, no problem. I hope we can hang out after the game.

There’s no way this will go on a long time. We work pretty fast around here.

Do you think we should offer something to the NRL too? Just to appear balanced?

To: ASADA

From: AFL

Nah. Those guys say mean stuff about you all the time. They’re not your friends like we are.

Of course we’ll hang out after the game. We’re great friends who help each other out. You should send a note to the Prime Minister’s Office too, just to cover this all off and keep them in the loop.

To: PM’s Office

From: ASADA

Just wanted to let you know we’ve agreed to do a ‘secret deal’ with the AFL to clear all their players involved in this. We’re just going to do this with the AFL because they’re nice to us and are our friends.

The NRL won’t be offered the same deal because they’ve been saying mean things about us to the media and it’s really upset us.

To: ASADA

From: PM’s Office

That all sounds above board.

Hey, could you see if the AFL can get us some tickets? Pretty excited to go to a GWS game.