Rita Panahi has a shot at Robbo

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Reading between the lines looks like the ducks are lining up at the Hun, the slob is nearly finished, won't be long now.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/op...7a0d152cba06cd56ac28f8638#load-story-comments
But in the warped moral code of the footy world, the anti-doping agencies upholding the integrity of sport are the bad guys and the players and club the witless victims.

Arguments about CAS supposedly “tampering” with evidence are so laughably asinine, they belong in booze-filled bars and online fan forums. But they are being quietly propagated among some footy officials, and on radio by commentators.

Absurd, too, is the suggestion the CAS verdict has been torn apart by legal experts. Presumably, the same geniuses, who were hopelessly wrong in predicting that players were unlikely to receive infraction notices, in advising them to join the failed Federal Court action, and in opining that they were safe from bans at CAS, are now claiming a Swiss Federal Tribunal appeal is a sound idea.

If the Essendon 34 take some responsibility for their own recklessness, then sports fans will be willing to embrace them. But this current course of action is doomed to end in more tears...
 
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Rita has changed her tune since leaving sen and joining aw , other than patrick smith and bec wilson regular guests, most of SEN have swallowed the bombers pr led by robbo, tim watson (jobes father) etc hook line and sinker. Rita too when on with Harford supported Essendon, moving from Richmond to the Docklands has cleared her head. She must have run into Caroline wilson and been told the stuff that never gets to air
 

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Wonder what the outcome of calling your boss a drunken idiot is. Oh wait she doesn't work under Slobbo, only way it would have gone to print .....
 
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Damn pay wall again.
After the CAS verdict, the ASADA chief executive spoke about the players’ culpability: “Of 30 ASADA testing missions during the period in question, none of the 18 players tested declared the injections, despite being asked each time whether they had taken any supplements,” he said.


“At best, the players did not ask the questions, or the people, they should have. At worst, they were complicit in a culture of secrecy and concealment.”

But in the warped moral code of the footy world, the anti-doping agencies upholding the integrity of sport are the bad guys and the players and club the witless victims.
 
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The key argument being put is that CAS erred in hearing the case de novo; that is, from scratch.

Lawyer and Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon says that is the most substantial ground for appeal. Only problem is, that is how CAS always operates.

“CAS anti-doping hearings are always de novo,” ex-ASADA CEO Richard Ings said. “Otherwise, a sport could tank a prosecution and WADA would be stuck.”

The chief legal argument is no more than a pointless whinge. And if that is all the players have, then they are destined to lose.

Yet Essendon will support this $500,000 folly, mindful that once the appeal is over, the players are likely to turn their attention, and that of their lawyers, to the club.
 

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The chief legal argument is no more than a pointless whinge. And if that is all the players have, then they are destined to lose.

Yet Essendon will support this $500,000 folly, mindful that once the appeal is over, the players are likely to turn their attention, and that of their lawyers, to the club.
It delays the Jobe decision though. Looks to move it well out of the spotlight, or at least the AFL hopes that it does.
 
it really is concerning how hard robbo is going here.

I worry that it has been endorsed by the AFL.

anyway... great quote:

"The Australian public has no appetite for the argument that elite footballers, blessed with every support system imaginable, should be held to a lower standard than a 15-year-old gymnast banned for taking a headache pill given to her by a careless coach."
 
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it really is concerning how hard robbo is going here.

I worry that it has been endorsed by the AFL.

anyway... great quote:
But that 15yo gymnast is probably a dirty Russian, not a top Aussie bloke or sheila
 

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Rita has a shot at Slobbo so the Slobbo puts it in the paper. Uh huh. What a shot.
 
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Trying to choose between these two intellectual heavyweights is like choosing between Trump and Cruz.
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