Channel 7’s The Agenda Setters have shared fresh insight into AFL third-party payment deals, with Caroline Wilson declaring “it is wrong to say” the league’s audit into Geelong is “regular”.

Wilson on Monday night revealed the checks, which are not part of a formal investigation, began last year and concern multiple players.

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She said eyebrows were first raised at the AFL when details of a 2013 loan deal between a former club sponsor and then captain Joel Selwood came to light late last year.

Wilson also noted new recruit Bailey Smith’s Cotton On deal while coach Chris Scott’s position with club sponsor Morris Finance resulted in fresh scrutiny.

Speaking on Tuesday night, Wilson reiterated the AFL has already completed an audit of Port Adelaide but its Geelong review remains “ongoing”.

“So Port Adelaide and Geelong were audited at the same time,” Kane Cornes said.

“Port Adelaide have been found that it’s all good, nothing to see here, and Geelong, we’re still waiting to see the findings of that, which probably says a little bit.”

Wilson responded: “More to come.”

The veteran journalist had kicked off the discussion by revealing her report had put her offside with one footy powerbroker.

“It’s disappointed Brian Cook, the former CEO of Geelong now at Carlton. He was disappointed at me,” Wilson said.

“I said last night that part of the audit is historic. I am not suggesting that former Geelong regimes were dealing in dodgy third-party payments but it’s historic in terms of what sparked the audit (the Joel Selwood story).

“Stories about Geelong have been going around for years.

“There is no suggestion any regime has done anything wrong but it is also wrong to say this is a de rigueur, this is just a regular audit — it is not.

“It came about because of Chris Scott’s deal with Morris Finance. He must rue the day that he did this deal with Morris Finance.

“This coach at the top of his game, who is doing it to earn money that he probably thinks he deserves to earn as a coach — and it was only because Morris Finance, I think, wanted a bit of bang for their buck and said we want you in a club jumper that made it a soft-cap situation.

“That is the reason the deep dive is going on and it’s continuing.”

AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon last month confirmed the league had taken action on Chris Scott’s Morris Finance deal.

Dillon said it was “in the realms of the soft cap” and had been “dealt with that way”.

7NEWS Melbourne’s Mitch Cleary reported Scott’s third-party deal was untouched but part of the contract would now be included in the Cats’ football department soft cap.

Wilson said on Monday night the AFL may not make any further announcements if the audit comes back clean.

But Collingwood premiership player Dale Thomas shared his experience on “how tight” third-party deals can be.

“I once got a sponsored suit, so the club sponsor, got their suit to wear to the races,” he said.

“And then got put through the fact of an audit and sat down with the AFL Integrity Unit because that wasn’t put through the salary cap.”

Hawthorn great Luke Hodge joked Thomas needed to “tell us about the bag of cash you got with the suit”.

More seriously, he said the AFL has long taken a serious approach to third-party deals.

“A lot gets looked at,” he said.

“Any third-party agreement within the AFL, even back when we were playing, you still got audited and you had to go through it to prove you are doing certain things for the sponsors if you got payment outside the salary cap.”