No Oppo Supporters ASAGA - The Final Chapter - Appeal Dismissed (Page 12) - The End

[yaco55]

Peris only had three banned substances - It must have been a super supplement.

 

[MightyDon]

Burnside taking action against Gil and Fitz

 

[DERO]

Burnside taking action again Gil and Fitz

Action Jackson is paying Burnside to reopen old wounds.
Jackson will then try to get onto the board.

 

[Dave]

Action Jackson is paying Burnside to reopen old wounds.
Jackson will then try to get onto the board.

Booo!

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

The collective sphincters at AFL HQ will be clinching right now.

 

[Doss]

Doubtful.

 

[AcuteWhistle]

MAR 12, 2018 — MICHAEL WARNER,
Herald Sun
12 MARCH 2018

THE AFL has threatened to cut ties with ASADA if key documents in the Essendon supplements saga are made public.

The move, which could jeopardise millions of dollars in federal government funding for the league, was signalled in an affidavit filed by AFL integrity unit chief Tony Keane in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal on Friday.

The AFL has joined ASADA in fighting a Freedom of Information request made by a member of the public seeking access to doping control forms signed by Bombers players between August 2011 and September 2012.

“If the application is successful ... I anticipate that the AFL would give serious consideration to engaging an alternative supplier for the conduct of the testing required in connection with the AFL’s anti-doping program,” Keane told the tribunal, citing ASADA’s strict confidentiality obligations.

But the Herald Sun can reveal banned Bomber Nathan Lovett-Murray has joined the stoush to have the doping control forms released.

Lovett-Murray’s agent, Peter Jess, said the forms were being protected to cover up “serious flaws” in the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s findings that the Essendon players had colluded by failing to disclose the use of substances administered by sports scientist Stephen Dank.

“It is Nathan’s understanding that the dates of the doping control tests are crucial because most of the players’ tests were conducted before Thymosin beta-4 was available from a known source in Australia,” Jess said.

“Nathan considers it in the public interest that all relevant details surrounding the dates of his doping test be made available.”

The AFL was forced into a humiliating backdown 12 years ago when it threatened to walk away from the World Anti-Doping Agency drug code over a dispute about penalties imposed for the use of illicit substances like cannabis.

While the AFL could remain WADA-compliant if samples collected by an independent agency were processed at a WADA-endorsed lab, the move would be certain to test relations with Canberra.

“The AFL is not obliged to retain ASADA for the purpose of conducting doping control tests but elects to do so,” Keane said in the affidavit.

“The AFL values highly the relationship that it has with ASADA ... that said, I am aware that there are private companies in Australia that offer the types of services that the AFL requires in connection with its conduct of the anti-doping (program).

“I anticipate that such private companies would not be an ‘agency’ for the purpose of the FOI Act (or other freedom of information legislation) and as such they would not be subject to a request of the nature of the underlying application.”

The FOI request is restricted to the names and dates of the urine and blood tests conducted by ASADA officers on Essendon players, with all other information redacted.

But Keane told the tribunal the AFL was concerned their release could “compromise the efficacy” of the anti-doping program.

The AFL integrity boss said they could also “subject a player to stigmatism and-or ridicule” because they were “obliged to list all prescription and non-prescription medications taken by them in the previous seven days”.

“Which, for example, may relate to the player’s undisclosed physical and/or mental illness, sexual dysfunction, medication for which a player has a Therapeutic Use Exemption etc,” Keane said.

Jess said the release of the forms would demonstrate that players including Jobe Watson, Dyson Heppell, Mark McVeigh, Brent Prismall and Lovett-Murray had nothing to declare at the time they were drug tested.

“The alleged collusion simply did not take place,” Jess said.

In finding the players guilty of doping in January 2016, the CAS panel declared: “The complete failure of the vast majority of players who had to fill in a doping control form during the season to reveal the receipt of injections does not encourage confidence in their statements as to the limited or sporadic nature of what they were injected with”.

A separate Supreme Court hearing into the five-year drugs saga will be held on the eve of the Richmond-Carlton season-opener on March 21.

Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, QC, is leading a case brought against AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan and former commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick alleging misleading and deceptive conduct.

 

[Beerfish]

The FOI request is restricted to the names and dates of the urine and blood tests conducted by ASADA officers on Essendon players, with all other information redacted.

But Keane told the tribunal the AFL was concerned their release could “compromise the efficacy” of the anti-doping program.

The AFL integrity boss said they could also “subject a player to stigmatism and-or ridicule” because they were “obliged to list all prescription and non-prescription medications taken by them in the previous seven days”.

“Which, for example, may relate to the player’s undisclosed physical and/or mental illness, sexual dysfunction, medication for which a player has a Therapeutic Use Exemption etc,” Keane said.

How does the first bolded bit line up with the second bolded bit? Sounds like Keane's full of shit.

 

[yodellinhank]

Afl had no concerns releasing the same info on Hird

 

[Walesy]

How does the first bolded bit line up with the second bolded bit? Sounds like Keane's full of shit.

complete shit (from the sounds of it). The stuff he's worried about would be redacted.

 

[DapperDon]

Must admit, I did lol at people who 5 years ago were demanding information be released are now defending that information shouldn't be released.

 

[Coldacre]

coverup much??

what a dirty, disgusting, corrupt organization the AFL are. not a peep from the mainstream media either

 

[Coldacre]

Afl had no concerns releasing the same info on Hird

AFL has no concerns letting a million things out to the general public when it suited their cause. utter scum.

 

[yaco55]

My guess is Bruce wants the forms to match up when players were tested and when players received injections - Now of course paperwork from EFC as to when players received injections and what they were injected with may not be 100% - Bruce will want this information seeing one of the CAS Tribunal's arguments was players were being secretive, after they failed to list their substances on their DCF - Of course the strangest thing is some players would have kept records of their drug tests ( DCF ), EFC should have a copy, while the AFL should have a copy, as should the player's legal team

 

[Lance Uppercut]

so, AFL clubs are taking a drug not TGA approved, in what appears to be an experiment, and allegedly unapproved by the AFL medicos...

And there's not a ****ing word about it on the Drugs in Footy board.

What a ****ing shock

 

[Beerfish]

so, AFL clubs are taking a drug not TGA approved, in what appears to be an experiment, and allegedly unapproved by the AFL medicos...

And there's not a ******* word about it on the Drugs in Footy board.

What a ******* shock

What's this all about then?

 

[DonsRule]

What's this all about then?

A few clubs are using some trial drug. That treats symptoms very simular to AOD9604.

The clubs are claiming they got approval from the AFL medicos it seems. The AFL is saying they didn't clear it

 

[DonsRule]

so, AFL clubs are taking a drug not TGA approved, in what appears to be an experiment, and allegedly unapproved by the AFL medicos...

And there's not a ******* word about it on the Drugs in Footy board.

What a ******* shock

And yeah I went to look at the ASADA/Drugs board and got a laugh when their was nothing there. One post by taco was all I saw.

 

[Doss]

taco55!

 

[DapperJong]

so, AFL clubs are taking a drug not TGA approved, in what appears to be an experiment, and allegedly unapproved by the AFL medicos...

And there's not a ******* word about it on the Drugs in Footy board.

What a ******* shock

You should probably start a thread.

 

[Beerfish]

Bloody paywall!

 

[Lance Uppercut]

You should probably start a thread.

I probably would have if I could access the article.

But then, I also want to see how long the hypocrisy lasts for

 

[jmoo wan]

I probably would have if I could access the article.

But then, I also want to see how long the hypocrisy lasts for

you haven’t read the article? sounds like you are perfectly qualified to start a thread on the main board then!

 

[Dave]

so, AFL clubs are taking a drug not TGA approved, in what appears to be an experiment, and allegedly unapproved by the AFL medicos...

And there's not a ******* word about it on the Drugs in Footy board.

What a ******* shock

Of course not Lance. No one else cheats. Not even the “leaders in injection science”.

 

[Beerfish]

I'm a bit rusty on this but aren't substances that haven't been approved by the TGA in direct contravention of WADA? Also, are we one of these clubs???