Live Event James Hird live in concert (Interview now in OP)

[zeggie]

"Sacrifice"

Turned it off now.

 

[Nice n Crispy]

*Innocent*

Well, they aren't.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Nah. The AFL deliberately set up Essendon to get banned

I meant her asking him if he was prolonging the pain of the players to defend his own reputation.

 

[Messenger]

why don't you ******* ask them you muppet?

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[FastLane]

My 4 y/old daughter just stumbled half-asleep into the lounge room and literally pissed herself.

First time in 18 months.

Even in her sleep she can see the absolute comedy in this interview

 

[BusterBob]

Her: ... the legal cases ... the length of time. Are you prolonging the pain to protect your own reputation?

Him: It wasn't about my own reputation, but trying to get natural justice for the players ... I can understand CAS etc and WADA wanting to send a strong message no drugs in sport ... but the 34 are 'sacrificial lambs', innocent men.

Her: But no-0ne can say what they were injected with.

Him: Dank can. But if no-one can, how can they have been found guilty? You're asking the players to prove their innocence. The players have been put in a position where they're seen as drug cheats.

 

[Mr Commissioner]

He's actually crazy - a sociopath.

 

[Iskender Time]

I am not ****ing interested in Hirds opinion on who is responsible. I am much more interested in his version of what happened and I will make my own bloody mind up.

 

[TheEnsign]

'The players weren't given due process'.

Except the Federal Court - twice - decided they had been. And failing a High Court appeal, the FC is the final arbiter of that in law. But of course James disagrees.

This really shows the fantasy land he lives in.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Wait. He's admitted he doesn't know what players under his control were given. And did he just say that not knowing won't haunt him? Really?

 

[RuFiO]

Great personal impact!
We all give a shit about how he feels...

 

[Gavstar]

CAS was comfortably satisfied they WERE injected with TB4!

 

[Tiges1229]

Wont haunt him what went into the players lol

 

[Crankyhawk]

This is the time for the question how can you know they are innocent?

And follow up that if you don't know and you are injecting something it must be seen as illegal in sport.

But no, she now goes onto the personal impact. IDGAF about the impact on brand Hird.

 

[Arden]

Wont haunt him that the players don't know what they were injected with.

campaigner.

 

[manboob]

Please say something slanderous, please say something slanderous.

 

[hench]

why don't you ******* ask them you muppet?

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He's too busy harassing Gill and Demetriou.

 

[Boxhead_31]

 

[Magpie Monopoly]

Clearly the rest of the the world and James have very different interpretations of the word "innocent".

Generally found guilt means not innocent i would of thought. The players aren't innocent

 

[Devington]

Jesus even Robbo's piling on saying better questions need to be asked.

You seem like one of the Essendon posters who is really trying to be unbiased about the whole thing. Do you think this interview is a crock of shit, for lack of better words? Personally I think this is THE turning point. And not the one Hird wanted. Journos are frothing at the mouth publicly about how bad this is. I think a lot of gloves are about to come off.

 

[Old M8]

Here we go. "Tell us about how the personal effect on you, James?"

 

[Mead]

Under the wheels so far-

- the Essendon football club
- the club doctor Bruce Reid for not making the program so safe or stopping Lovett Murray form taking his injection and for approving AOD9604.
- the AFL for denying procedural fairness and making it public and interfering with the ASADA investigation and for telling the club to accept penalties.
- Ian Robson for designing the club structure, for not acting on the letter Bruce Reid wrote and for not firing Dank and Robinson.
- Paul Hamilton for reporting to Ian Robson
- Dean Robinson and Stephen Dank for not always following the protocols that James ensured were put in place.
- Someone for not putting the supporting documentation on the firms.
- Liz Lucan for ridiculously saying that Hird should take responsibility (seriously what an absurd idea)
- Gil McLaughlin for preventing him from lying during the press conference
- David Evans for betraying Hird and telling him to lie to ASADA.
- ASADA for not telling him to stop the peptides
- the media for tarnishing his good name.
- CAS (obviously) for sacrificing 34 fine men.

 

[OniAu]

Hirdy still looks like hes on something

 

[Oscarman]

It's all about the players.

 

[ManWithNoName]

You seem like one of the Essendon posters who is really trying to be unbiased about the whole thing. Do you think this interview is a crock of shit, for lack of better words? Personally I think this is THE turning point. And not the one Hird wanted. Journos are frothing at the mouth publicly about how bad this is. I think a lot of gloves are about to come off.

I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just saying what I think.