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

[mickeyjuice]

Now that there's a big chance trent cotchin will be given the brownlow.. richmond supporters will no doubt declare it as winning a premiership.

No, we're not all idiots like Pies fans, we can distinguish between the team and the personal.

 

[compact72]

Coincidence

14 runs from 20 balls

14 + 20 = 34

Weird day

 

[NikkiNoo]

They'll leave it to Kennett, no way will they go up against the AFL (unless they talk to the AFL first and agree on how it's going to be done).

Chapman (Adelaide Chairman) lead the charge against the AFL and Essendon last time when Paul Little was being an idiot. Remember that AFL meeting with the Club Presidents and when Little had asked them all to do a vote of no confidence prior to it? Gordon was the one who spoke in the end, but a prior meeting was called by Chapman. He was the instigator and it was him and two others that then called Gil and told him to get Little to pull his head in and how pissed off all the other clubs were with Essendon. I don't think that annoyance has dissipated at all from the other clubs. Little got the hint and didn't turn up to the meeting. He only called in via teleconference for a short period of it.

 

[Tyrone Time]

They didn't even ******* check!

They didn't ask anyone. They didn't follow the bloody rules.

Yes they fell victim to human frailties, but they should and must accept the consequences.

+1

It amazes me the amount of people still falling for the Nuremberg/Dog ate my homework defence. If those people bothered to read the full report they'd see the players were far more complicit and aware than Robbo and co have led everyone to believe. People have been saying for 3 years "The athlete is responsible for what goes into the athletes body". For some strange reason, this is news to people today....

 

[Andrew Mc]

Well considering Gillon confirmed on AFL360 that they'll keep the number 1 pick in the 2016 draft, I'd almost back Watson keeps his precious medal.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. They just keep on protecting the drug cheats. At this stage Adelaide more harshly punished for a few bucks under the table.

 

[Broken_Chairs]

na on 7's special report tim said something along the lines of he's not expecting jobe to front the commission and that he'll make he's own decision.

I interpreted that to mean jobe is considering handing it back but I could be wrong.

So brave, so strong

 

[The 747]

3 Premierships and Essendon being labelled Drug Cheats.
Fair to say things have gone alright as a Hawks supporter the last 3 years.
Oh and Sammy Mitchell winning a Brownlow brighten up 2012 a little.

This is so tiresome. Get a Hawk branded security blanket or something.

 

[Andrew Mc]

+1

It amazes me the amount of people still falling for the Nuremberg/Dog ate my homework defence. If those people bothered to read the full report they'd see the players were far more complicit and aware than Robbo and co have led everyone to believe. People have been saying for 3 years "The athlete is responsible for what goes into the athletes body". For some strange reason, this is news to people today....

For one main reason - they just read what the AFL media feeds them. And apart from one or two of them, they just haven't had the balls to say anything contrary.

 

[compact72]

Scooter ‏@ScooterMcNeice 54s54 seconds ago
@DrewFromPerth @MeganHustwaite @webspinner7 Yep while some players charged were with Hird today by the way as they are close friend.


Some muppets just never learn

 

[mickeyjuice]

I don't think that annoyance has dissipated at all from the other clubs. Little got the hint and didn't turn up to the meeting. He only called in via teleconference for a short period of it.

I suspect it's gotten worse, understandably. But the question was about the AFL, not Essendon.

 

[Big Sim is Back]

AFL pretty much had to bend over and take what was coming from CAS, and its pretty clear now that today's result was inevitable given what the CAS transcripts reveal. The AFL and the EFC must have known this and all they could do was drum up a bullshit narrative about discounting and backdating the penalty into nothingness, hoping it would make the actual penalty look unreasonably harsh.

But now it is back in their control and what happens? No more penalties, a year of AFL sponsored tanking landing the top picks, hand outs, salary cap concessions, the green light to pillage players from lower league clubs, and a big tough t***ies to those who can see it for what it is.

Back to unaccountable business as usual at AFL house.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

Hird is partying on the blocks in his speedos in Mykonos after spending most of the day getting paid $12 an hr as a tourist working in a take away mobile souv van.

 

[Turnsole]

mike the dyke seems to have been in the system for years now, is he accountable to anyone?

new blood is needed

Is anyone on the Commission accountable? How in all seriousness would you get rid of a commissioner or any of their appointee? It's a closed loop, accountable none and no-one. Even company boards are easier to remove than this lot.

 

[vonn]

3 Premierships and Essendon being labelled Drug Cheats.
Fair to say things have gone alright as a Hawks supporter the last 3 years.
Oh and Sammy Mitchell winning a Brownlow brighten up 2012 a little.

Please don't make a thread about Essendon's implosion about Hawthorn, I beg you.

 

[compact72]

Cricket over. Footy Classified to start any money

 

[NikkiNoo]

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. They just keep on protecting the drug cheats. At this stage Adelaide more harshly punished for a few bucks under the table.

You mean more harshly punished for not paying anything but having a side contract that the club never paid out on, wasn't enforceable?

 

[Andrew Mc]

You mean more harshly punished for not paying anything but having a side contract that the club never paid out on, wasn't enforceable?

That too!

 

[Tyrone Time]

The AFL and the EFC must have known this and all they could do was drum up a bullshit narrative about discounting and backdating the penalty into nothingness, hoping it would make the actual penalty look unreasonably harsh.

I'm still yet to understand how Essendon players have been "banned" since last March yet they were running around playing in season 2015!

 

[compact72]

I'm still yet to understand how Essendon players have been "banned" since last March yet they were running around playing in season 2015!

Thats when the tribunal handed down their decision. Makes sense

 

[vanders]

Perched for the Caro-gloat show

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Is anyone on the Commission accountable? How in all seriousness would you get rid of a commissioner or any of their appointee? It's a closed loop, accountable none and no-one. Even company boards are easier to remove than this lot.

I believe that if 2/3 of the clubs want one of them gone they're gone. Unfortunately the AFL controls 3 votes directly as it hold the licenses for Sydney, Western Sydney and Gold Coast plus the WAFC controls the votes of West Coast and Fremantle and I'm not sure about the 2 SA clubs but the AFL probably only needs to bully a couple of clubs into voting it's way to ensure they can do whatever they want.

 

[BringouttheGimp]

In Hird we Trust.. hahahahaha idiot spin doctor ploy. I wanna wear one of those 'in hird we trust' tees in collingwood.. if someone was prepared to sponsor me a few grand to pay for my medical bills.

 

[NikkiNoo]

I'm still yet to understand how Essendon players have been "banned" since last March yet they were running around playing in season 2015!

Because it was backdated to the date of the original AFL Tribunal decision. This is common for most CAS Appeals. Contador is a prime example of it.

 

[Tyrone Time]

Thats when the tribunal handed down their decision. Makes sense

So how does a 2 year suspension start when you actually then went and played in the season that followed?

 

[madmug]

Steve Smith MOM, excellent knock skip.

Now good night & on with the big show