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Anyone else thinks Jobe just chose his words very carefully?

I think him saying he's 100% comfortable with what he was given opens up just as many cans of worms as anything else
 
Well done, David Grace. The politics of the decision is a disgrace though. Can't bring themselves to say it - not guilty. Burden of proof should have been on ASADA from the start.
It was.

ASADA couldn't have just turned up to tribunal and sat on their hands - the burden of proof was on them to show that doping occurred.
 
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Even the ABC isn't immune to sloppy journalism.

The sub-heading on their website home page says "ASADA has found 34 Essendon players not guilty of using banned peptides ..."
 
Ziggy's report was a long time ago, the club didn't keep good enough records of who was doing what and to whom. It's never been up for dispute that the regime was poorly monitored/administered.

What has now been found is that it can't be proven that any player was given a prohibited substance.

The crux of the matter for our club and for others is that it shouldn't ever get to the point that the players can't say what they've been injected with, nor that the club would inject players and then not keep a detailed record of what they were injected with. It was a major failing and I believe we've paid a big enough price. Time to move on. Hopefully the club doesn't get too offensive at the AFL or ASADA and ASADA doesn't appeal.

All these people calling for mea culpas from ASADA or the press are overlooking the fact that it was a horrible situation almost fully of our own making.

Of our own making in that we naively 'self-reported' off the back of a panic/knee-jerk reaction from the AFL to the ACC report and the 'blackest day in sport' announcement which has ultimately turned out to be political grand-standing at it's best.
 
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