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

[The 747]

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

The club that keeps on giving. So after all the media smashing they copped for years, they promote the guy whose job it was to look after the media. You could not invent this football club if you ****ing tried lol

 

[Registered User]

If train A travels at 40 miles per hour and Train B travels at 60 miles per hour, and Train A passes a station at 2:15 a.m. and train B passes the same station at 2:30 a.m., at what time will train B catch up with Train A?

hee hee. Not bad

 

[Keys]

Dank speaks:
Essendon player ban is laughable and based on no evidence, says Stephen Dank

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...ays-stephen-dank/story-fni5f6kw-1227706358387

Will not be remotely surprised if this guy is found in a ditch beaten to death one day

 

[Mahlepi]

if timmy's little boy was half the man people suggest she is the medal would have been handed back asap

its all propaganda

 

[Mahlepi]

if timmy's little boy was half the man people suggest she is the medal would have been handed back asap

its all propaganda

 

[Dacksaredown]

Is there an echo in here?

 

[Apex36]

How many times a week do you watch a 28 minute interview?

36.

I think I have a problem...

 

[Lebbo73]

Finally someone at EFC is talking sense.... Lindsay Tanner "the blame game must end"

If only this was the mindset early on then things would be very different.

All he is doing is giving ammo for lawsuits. Obviously, the legal eagles haven't told him what he can and cannot say!

 

[Funk]

Where were they asked whether they had taken anything? I had heard earlier today that they were in trouble for not advising, while being tested, that they had received supplement injections by Essendon sports scientists. Just like players at most other clubs received at the time.

If they were asked and said nothing or said no, then this is definitely mis-leading information and very questionable at that. My take was that they're in trouble for not volunteering information while being tested.

See paragraph 129 part(vii) and then paragraph 161 for their pathetic explanations as to why they didn't.

The one leak that came out of the CAS hearing was that the tribunal members were not impressed with EFC players explanation for not listing Danks injections on ASADA forms.

No ****ing kidding - whackity whack whack whack!!!

 

[alpC]

Will not be remotely surprised if this guy is found in a ditch beaten to death one day

There will be no evidence though........

 

[bing181]

...1/6 thought that some probably did, but wasn't comfortable with others, 2/6 thought they all must have used it based on this beautiful piece of logic:

"For Mr Dank to have arbitrarily omitted to give any player injection of Thymosin would have made no sense".

You're not helping yourself. At all. a) the line you've cherry-picked above was but one of any number of reasons why they upheld the appeal, and b) the 1/6 agreed that the majority did, but "several" perhaps didn't.

Read the report. Even more damning than many of us had imagined.

 

[Dacksaredown]

There will be no evidence though........

A dead body is pretty good evidence when it comes to murder.

 

[Northalives]

Hird should be prosecuted for supplying drugs and assault.

 

[TheEnsign]

has he decided on the proper forum to clear the players yet the scamp?

I just had a bizarre vision of Dank arguing his case strongly in the afterlife, fronting a tribunal consisting of David Bowie, Lemmy, and Scott Weiland.

The Thin White Duke and Scott certainly know a thing or two about injections, seems like perhaps an appropriate forum.

 

[ODNBlue]

(When we ignore all the evidence) this ban on the players is manifestly unjust.

Lindsay Tanner​

 

[Dacksaredown]

Hird should be prosecuted for supplying drugs and assault.

Who did he assault again?

 

[2006_Eagles]

36.

I think I have a problem...

You're in good company today then

 

[Satan]

Need seperate threads for all media tonight please

 

[Kappa]

This man MUST get a life ban from sport right now.

 

[Reppie]

Servers will be in meltdown.

Already feels like dial up speed.

 

[Satan]

This man MUST get a life ban from sport right now.

But he's a good bloke and a hall of faner

 

[Norwood1878]

Where? New Zealand!

Haha, fair point!

 

[mxett]

Not with Monfries.

true, however maybe if the players did know Monfires should have disclosed it to the your club. Maybe port should sue him

 

[JackOutback]

Jesus, jokingly told the wife I would have 150 pages to wade through; not far off the mark.

Surely this is only a surprise to Bombers fans. It was the only likely result. It's the right result too for anyone who wants clean sport. It's tough on the players but they are responsible for their actions. You can't have them passing off responsibility that easily.

 

[McCrabblett]

Who did he assault again?

Actually, while the comment is a bit silly atlas as it applies to James and your response suitably flippant, there is a grain of truth here.

One of the causes of action I'd be interested to see if the players sued would be the tort of assault, arguing their consent to the injections was not informed consent as it was procured through misrepresentations. Unfortunately, the evidence in the CAS tends to work against that, but its probably still worth a shot.

Using the tort of assault may also open up some interesting damages options for them.