Doss
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- Aug 1, 2011
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I think this view overlooks, or at least downplays, the gravity of the situation if players get suspended.You don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
If players are suspended, it is because of Dank and Robinson, and because they were not supervised closely enough.
The idea that you just sack anyone and everyone who had some association with their activities or who was there at the time is just dumb.
If you have a good coach, good assistants, a good football manager etc, you are just shooting yourself in the foot if you sack them all for the sake of making a clean sweep.
And furthermore, I would find it very hard to support a club that sacked Hird after the loyalty he has shown throughout this.
We'll be rubbish on field with a severely depleted side. We'll likely take a considerable hit, though not a terminal one, in an off field sense.
In that scenario, my view is that the club really would have to wipe the slate clean. Be rid of anyone in the football department with any sort of connection to the debacle.
I simply cannot countenance or conceive of any scenario where we have large swathe of our list- whether that be 26, 34 or whatever else, suspended, yet those senior members of the football department who helped oversee the whole program (or more to the point, didn't oversee it enough) survive.
Losing players to infractions is the worst possible outcome for us and indeed, would be by the width plus breadth of the Pacific the biggest catastrophe in the history of the Essendon Football Club.
It would make the sanctions of last year pale into a very insignificant blob by comparison.
If that's not enough to see basically all responsible people given their marching orders, then accountability may as well cease to exist as a concept.