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http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...aking-deal-20140827-1091y4.html#ixzz3Bb22VFXwSharks players shown 30 pages of ASADA documents before taking deal
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August 27, 2014 - 10:00PM
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Roy Masters
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'Legal sources insist the players would have ultimately won the case.'
A compelling 30-page document, including an appendix of exhibits, was presented to past and present Cronulla players before their final admissions of the use of banned supplements.
The material, shown players by Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority lawyers, undermines the view that the evidence against NRL players was very weak and they were stampeded into accepting guilt.
Cronulla chief executive Steve Noyce confirmed this, telling the Herald that the players, who had never genuinely believed they took prohibited substances, only did so when presented with evidence last Wednesday.
The NRL believes ASADA learnt from its experience with the AFL in June when 34 Essendon players were presented with show-cause notices that did not have the depth of detail that accompanied those handed the 12 Cronulla players with the club in 2011.
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Representatives of Essendon players, whom Fairfax Media exclusively reported on Friday were offered six-month suspensions by ASADA, subsequently rejected the proposed ban, partly because the anti-doping body refused to show evidence.
The possibility of a six-month sanction could not be kept on the table because a deadline passed, shortly after the issue of show-cause notices, with Essendon initiating Federal Court action against ASADA and the AFL. To keep the offer "live" would be contemptuous of the legal process.
ASADA was extremely patient with the NRL players, confronting them with the evidence and then suggesting they consult with their legal representatives, rather than issue a show-cause notice which, at first glance, could have had all the seriousness of a parking ticket.
Part of the problem in this whole wrenching drama that has linked Australia's two most popular football codes for 18 months is that ASADA's show-cause notices are merely an allegation – that is, the anti-doping body is only required to state it believes a doping violation took place.
ASADA, which gathered all the evidence independent of the NRL and mindful of the AFL experience, resolved to present show-cause notices to NRL players with documentation.
Nevertheless, legal sources insist the players would have ultimately won the case, although it would have taken another two years.
This thread is 1119!!
Not even the first ASADA thread either.
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Yeah, read it in the documents made available today under the Freedom of Information thing linked here earlier. The pricks were arranging the joint-investigation before we "self-reported", and then have the balls to go into court and deny that one even took place
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They're a different kind of brownie point though..
www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/asada-case-against-essendon-bombers-at-risk-of-collapse/story-fnca0u4y-1227039302451?nk=6e3637b54e6d6605282bb6157a591594ASADA case against Essendon Bombers at risk of collapse
- CHIP LE GRAND
- THE AUSTRALIAN
- AUGUST 28, 2014 12:00AM
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THE Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority’s case against Essendon footballers appears certain to collapse if its investigators cannot use transcripts from player interviews conducted last year.
The Australian has confirmed there are two key pieces of evidence common to every current and former Essendon player accused of taking a banned peptide during the 2012 season: all 34 signed consent forms to be administered with a Thymosin peptide and all told ASADA in their interviews they received injections as part of the supplement regime.
A further six players who took part in the program designed and administered by sports scientist Stephen Dank have not been issued show-cause notices by ASADA. Of these, two signed consent forms but denied receiving injections, two didn’t sign the consent forms and denied receiving injections and two signed the consent forms but were not interviewed for personal reasons.
ASADA sought earlier this year to interview the two players it had not yet questioned, but both players declined on legal advice. ASADA has not used its coercive powers to require them to attend an interview.
The status of the interview transcripts will be decided by Federal Court judge John Middleton when he rules on the legality of ASADA and the AFL’s joint investigation into the Essendon supplements regime.
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