It would certainly be naive to think that the Essendope doping program was not based on one which had already been trialled successfully at another club. Essendope might have got away with it if not for the intervention of ASADA & subsequently WADA. Sadly another club probably did get away with it thanks to a culture of cover up in our game.What an absolute disgrace Mark Thompson is, to think this bloke slotted in to take over from Hird as coach at the height on the *Essendon Drug Scandal and had everyone hoodwinked that he had no knowledge and tried to stop the injections etc, smug prick knew all along what was going on at the club, he had previous dealings with Dank & Robinson.
Sat there coaching after Hird was outed for 12 months like a supposed clean skin and made out he was going to steer them down the right track.