Albert Ross
Premiership Player
I think the duty of care aspect being directed towards the AFL is a farce . They warned Hird, Corcoran and Hamilton about peptides at a specially convened meeting at AFL house, they target tested players when they heard rumours and also investigated Dr Reids claims regarding Tribulis.
WTF else were they suppose to do.
1. There was nothing going on in breach of the rules, no breaches of duty of care being breached, nothing to discover. There is no possible way anyone could conclude or determine that anything wrong has happening.
2. There were breaches of care, clear breaches of the drug code. The evidence is sufficient to demonstrate charges and the use of PIEDs.
Essendon supporters really need to pick one of those two arguments and stick with it. Either nothing was happening and therefore the AFL could not possibly detect anything and is therefore not in breach. Alternatively something was happening and the AFL's decision to act upon it is a clear example of them fulfilling their duty of care.
This whole contention that we were doing nothing wrong and it is the AFL's fault for not catching us while we did nothing wrong is just absurd.