You're a Richmond supporter - when have you ever been in a good place!?
5 times in my life, all honest wins.
head to head Premierships
Richmond 1
Essendon 0
As an Essendon supporter have you ever felt clean?
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You're a Richmond supporter - when have you ever been in a good place!?
Some have!.
Will any current AFL coach publicly bag Hird?
Trust the old heads to be telling it like it is!
Any tweets from Australian athletes about this decision? I'm guessing they're going to be royally pissed.
Melanie Schlanger @Mel_Schlanger ยท 2h
A backdated 12 month ban for taking a banned substance?! Players to miss only a few games?! I feel sad for sport today. #asada #precedent
Can't help feeling a bit dirty watching all this unfold.
Imagine it was the Indian cricket team involved and their backdated 'penalty' meant that they'd miss some ODIs against the West Indies but be back to play us in the test series at the end of November. How many Australians would be so accepting of the 'pragmatic' approach the ADAs are taking?
Well if the real target is the likely instigators, Dank, Hird, Robinson etc then it may deter coaches from encouraging substance abuse amongst their players, will the Essendon faithful be willing to sacrifice Hird if it saves the players, I'm not too sure?Essendon fans must be ****-a-hoop with this decision, there's a fair chance their players may get offered a similar deal. But this has shown ASADA to be as consistent as our very own MRP, so who knows what is coming.
Will be interesting to see if they now pursue Flanagan and others who implemented the program.
One thing is certain, after all the drama and media coverage, ASADA have made complete fools of themselves and will be seen as a laughing stock around the world.
These penalties will not deter team doping no matter the justification of undue delay's by ASADA.
It really is fingers crossed time for Bomber faithful.
Stats are slightly misleading given Essendon are currently one of those top 8 teams and can't play themselves and two of Richmond's top 8 matchups came against Essendon.Essendon play/played against the current bottom 6, eight times.
Richmond play/played against the current bottom 6, nine times
Essendon only faced the current top 8 teams, eight times this season.
Richmond face the current top 8 teams, ten times this season.
Both teams have 3 wins against current top 8 teams.
Seems to me Essendon had a pretty easy draw as well.
Oh Essendon's one chance to beat up on GWS resulted in a lucky 15 point win....jeepers.
Yeah if things go like this with the Essendon situation, well the Dons supporters can breathe a sigh of relief and consider it a win.
Essendon play/played against the current bottom 6, eight times.
Richmond play/played against the current bottom 6, nine times
Essendon only faced the current top 8 teams, eight times this season.
Richmond face the current top 8 teams, ten times this season.
Both teams have 3 wins against current top 8 teams.
Seems to me Essendon had a pretty easy draw as well.
Oh Essendon's one chance to beat up on GWS resulted in a lucky 15 point win....jeepers.
Is this statement as certain as the others you've made?It won't because the program there went for longer, little was done to curb it and to top it off, they are trying to stop it in court.
I think the situation will in time tell what the best approach to take with an ADA is. Attend interviews and answer questions etc or stonewall and get a 3 game ban. At the moment nobody knows and we're just pissing in the wind.All this rubbish and nonsense to be given a three game suspension - it just doesn't add up!
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned (and my apologies if it has already), but did Cronulla players sign waiver forms for what they were taking?
From what I've seen the investigations against Cronulla didn't involve the NRL - smart move although I don't feel this should hamper the process (as some believe with the AFL/Essendon investigation).
Just curious as these are some of the differences between the two cases (AFL as opposed to NRL)..
Interesting tsuff...and I'm sure all will be revealed soon, particularly once things wrap up against the bombers....
All this talk about ASADA going after Dank, what exactly are they going to do with him. The AFL and NRL will probably give him a lifetime ban, so what do you think ASADA can do, they have no power outside a WADA compliant sporting organisation.
I can only see the ACC having any impact on him if there are trafficking charges in the cupboard.
I think it should after all he was supposed to be banned. and all awards should be stripped.
I realise you're feeling euphoric now Lance, but just you wait...Is this statement as certain as the others you've made?
How about stripping the saints because of saad?
Of what? Maybe just maybe, one defeat of Carlton could be due to Saad. Shirley you are not suggesting we award that game to Carlton?
Reserving Judgement till we see penalty handed down to Cronulla the club.