Play Nice WADA v Essendon 34: Guilty, 2 Yr Susp. (backdated to Mar 2015). Affects 17 current AFL plyrs.

[Proper Gander]

Robbo has been saying all day he thinks the players cannot play the innocent victim anymore. He wont ramble that badly I think.

That was before he'd had a few. Anything could happen.

 

[peppy la pew]

What do I win?

How about a 12 mth all expenses paid holiday

 

[Canyouhearthedrums]

Oh, he mad.

Ridiculous for a senior employee of an AFL club

 

[madmug]

This thread has moved so quickly, no-one can keep up.
3K posts in 11 hours makes for a lot of reading, if one is up to it.

The one outstanding thing about this whole episode has been Hird. He has been outstanding...............but in a very strange sort of way.

The power of self delusion.

 

[TerryWallet]

Linda Lovelace and TerryWallet - see! I told you it would explode, and people who don't usually post/distance themselves come out of the woodwork. Seems that more people give a hoot now due to an official result!

Thrawny baby, i didn't say the HTB wouldn't explode. In fact, i said it would. With heaps of outsiders too.

What i said was i didn't think many, if any, HTB regs or semi regs would have a meltdown.

I haven't spotted any yet, have you?

BTW, congrats thrawny, you were firm on 2 years when most of us doubted a bit.

 

[peppy la pew]

That was before he'd had a few. Anything could happen.

* checks calender, yes today ends in " Y "

Fair chance he will be on the squirt

 

[alpC]

How does Paul Marsh get away with saying "The players did no wrong" Surely that is grounds for dismissal after it clearly shows in the WADA report that they were indeed complicit.

Are the players banned from the club too? No training, gym etc?

 

[legend166]

It was an attempt to minimise the damage to Essendon.

Hindsight can be a bitch if you're a cheat.

The initial "governance" punishment had more to it than that.

I know it was highly unlikely, but imagine if Essendon won the flag in 2013? Even the AFL could see that would be a huge disaster, so they had to get Essendon out of the finals.

 

[andrewb]

Essendon should hand deliver a copy of the CAS verdict to members

To what aim? The verdict simply says that it's more likely than not that players took TB4 and that players didn't do enough to discharge their obligations under the code. There is still no actual proof of TB4 use, the test that they developed was thrown out. There is still no admission of TB4 use, the bloke who's meant to have given them TB4 still says that he didn't use it.

We are in the same position as supporters as we were before, except that the players received the benefit of the doubt at the tribunal and didn't receive the same benefit at CAS.

 

[McCrabblett]

Bombers' media manager during most of the saga, then upgraded to chief marketing manager

So it seems loyalty is prized above a brain still at The Hangar

 

[Dacksaredown]

Worsfold must be rapt with 2016 so far.

 

[jenny61_99]

Essendon should hand deliver a copy of the CAS verdict to members

It's available on line.

 

[Apex36]

Robbo.

Nothing surer.

My money would be on Bomber Thompson. Has prior form.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

How does Paul Marsh get away with saying "The players did no wrong" Surely that is grounds for dismissal after it clearly shows in the WADA report that they were indeed complicit.

Head-in-arse privilege.

 

[DazzaTys]

they knew the risks though

Not with Monfries.

 

[Reppie]

no doubt James will have a cry in the interview .

Obama style?

Maybe the old onion juice.

 

[Laphroaig]

Theyre better off being WADA compliant (with exceptions). I anticipate (reading between the lines) that the AFL code is going to be amended to remove CAS appeals, dismantle a lot of ASADA's oversight and place all the power for its administration (and a lot more discretion) in the hands of the AFL exclusively.

Far enough not to piss off ASADA, WADA and the Feds, and allowing the AFL to still claim to be WADA compliant, but in reality empowering the AFL Commission to able to do whatever they want and whenever it suits them to do so.

Sorry, but that is plain impossible.

What you're predicting is like being a little bit pregnant, and choosing to remain a little bit pregnant, but not having a child.

WADA compliance is a top down process, not a bottom up process. The only way the current version of compliance changes is if WADA agrees to sport specific amendments. WADA won't - certainly not in ways you are suggesting. How would that play with the hundreds of other sports and sporting bodies. Sorry guys, you all have to stay on full alcohol WADA compliance, but we're going to surrender our oversight of the AFL and let them do whatever they want to."

Don't think so.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

My money would be on Bomber Thompson. Has prior form.

Does coke turn you into a rambling mess?

 

[Stax on the mill]

He was gutted. I want to see someone lose it and Blame everyone and ramble incoherently at length.

Robbo?

 

[Tiges1229]

Obama style?

Maybe the old onion juice.

lol, hes gonna cry, we all know it.
He will mention his dad played for the club , he loves the club blah blah blah blah.

 

[dart]

lol whats he gonna do ???? say he's shocked to be sitting /standing/ to be here ?

shocked to be sitting here:

 

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[TennisPlayerAndy]

lol, hes gonna cry, we all know it.
He will mention his dad played for the club , he loves the club blah blah blah blah.

'My nine ANZAC day medals....'

Sob.

 

[Dave Smith]

did i read correctly today that the afl's defence is that it is a team sport and therefore not applicable to wada? has any other world team sport tried this on?

what makes the afl think they're so special?

 

[STFU Donnie]

Oh, it gets better than just that. It's with Tracey Holmes.

It's like we're living in a Salvador Dali painting.