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Above all the laughing and pisstaking, this has the potential to become horrific from a human element point of view. Even after the court cases, legal and political drama settles there's still the longer term health issue of the players. Some may end up with some form of crippling disease down the track (eg cancer etc) which is already likely in any person in society. But if one of the 34 end up with some major health issue later in life, it would have to cross their minds that whatever was injected into them all those years ago might have played a role. This opens a whole new legal can of worms for Hird. And while the contentious point would remain as to whether the substances did or didn't impact on long term health, the fact remains that this will probably never blow over for all those in question. Hird has kids so I wonder if he'd allow some hotshot coach oversee the same type of program with his own kids in sport - highly unlikely. Ken Hinkley put it best when he was talking about drafting young kids - you're essentially taking them from their parents at a young age, who are counting on you (the senior coach) to look after their child as if they were your own. So above all the #standbyhird rubbish, this is an issue that could very well come back at any time in life, long after grandstanding legal battles for personal gratification and footy careers are finished. Just my opinion.
I don't understand why this has never been articulated by anyone from * . This is the reason I have lost respect for Tim Goebells Watson. I used to love him when he played