Happier times- Then Melbourne coach Dean Bailey with top picks Tom Scully and Jack Trengove at the 2009 draft. Source: Herald Sun
THE AFL's tanking investigation is taking a mounting personal toll on former Melbourne coach Dean Bailey, before a possible legal stoush with the league over his performance in 2009.
Bailey has engaged lawyer Chris Pollard to defend claims he brought the game into disrepute by failing to coach the Demons to their utmost throughout his second season in charge.
Bailey has been interviewed three times by the AFL's investigations department, which has served the former Dees coach, Melbourne chief executive Cameron Schwab and ex-football manager Chris Connolly with a 1000-page dossier containing the findings of the league's five-month tanking probe.
Schwab, Connolly and Bailey could be barred from the game if found guilty of engineering a tanking plot.
The AFL has demanded a response from the individuals and will decide by the end of the month whether to lay charges.
A source close to Bailey, 45, said the increasing emotional and financial cost of the tanking saga was concerning.
Melbourne has threatened to take the matter to the Supreme Court, meaning Bailey could face a legal bill of tens of thousands of dollars.
The Demons have engaged partners Leon Zwier and Caroline Goulden from leading law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler.
The club is believed to have questioned the definition of tanking and looked to other teams' performances in recent years.
Interviewees have expressed serious concerns about the allegedly threatening and intimidating nature of the interviews.
The AFL would have the resources to appoint a top-line legal team.
Top lawyers cost between $500 and $1000 an hour.
Bailey, now Adelaide's strategy and innovations coach, is scheduled to return to work on Monday, determined to clear his name.
After he was sacked by Melbourne in 2011, with 22 wins and 59 losses to his name, Bailey said: "I was asked to do the best thing by the Melbourne Football Club and I did it. I put players in different positions."
The AFL is understood to have interviewed about 20 people, including current and former Melbourne staff and players, about the club's on-field intentions in 2009.
The Dees won four games, ensuring they secured the prized first two selections in the national draft, used to gain Tom Scully and Jack Trengove.
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