No Oppo Supporters CAS hands down guilty verdict - Players appealing - Dank shot - no opposition - (cont in pt.2)

[Dan Cooper]

Martin Hardie on 3AW this morning >

listen to this on Audioboo

 

[Nifft]

LOL ASADA

 

[Buttsoup_Barnes]

Those witnesses are under the Essendon payroll though so justice is being thwarted through technicality

Bunch of incompetent w***ers ASADA are, I hope they're put through the sword on Monday.

 

[Beerfish]

Martin Hardie on 3AW this morning >

listen to this on Audioboo

Cliffs for those at work?

 

[Whispering_Jack]

Cliffs for those at work?

Case could collapse by Christmas
Posted by: Jake Bourke | 12 December, 2014 - 12:56 PM

A former Essendon legal advisor says ASADA’s case against the Bombers could collapse by Christmas.

The anti-doping authority suffered a major setback in its case against 34 past and present Essendon players today when it failed in its bid to have two key witnesses – Shane Charter and Nima Alavi – subpoenaed by the Supreme Court to appear at Monday’s tribunal hearing.

Martin Hardie told Nick McCallum that ASADA barely had a leg to stand on entering the hearing.

“I think ASADA have gone too far to withdraw at this point but I can quite possibly see the whole case collapsing,” the former Essendon advisor said.

“It may even be possible the whole case collapses before Christmas.

“Then we’ll have the situation where we’ve had two years of huffing and puffing and chest beating about Essendon doing something wrong and when it comes to the crunch ASADA not being able to put up any evidence.

“ASADA have been conducting what is their normal modus operandi for two years, which is to try and bully people into taking a deal rather than going to a tribunal and putting their case.”

Mr Hardie demanded a new anti-doping authority in Australia.

“I said to David Howman, the director general of WADA, in June last year that the way ASADA was running this case would set the anti-doping cause back 10 years in Australia and what’s happened in the last 18 months has only confirmed that,” he said on 3AW.

“ASADA has destroyed any credibility it had with the Australian community and we really need a new system – one that works, one that respects athletes and respects sport.”

Mr Hardie was asked whether he thought Charter and Alavi could appear at the hearing by choice.

“From what I understand, I think that’s very doubtful,” he said.

LISTEN: Former Essendon legal advisor speaks with 3AW

 

[baz_machine]

LOL ASADA

LOSEHARDA

 

[Beerfish]

The anti-doping authority suffered a major setback

But McDelusional said it wasn't a major setback at all.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Why did Alavi and Charters even bother speaking to ASADA at all? Personally I think Charters only wanted his name is the papers.

Once he was outed by the media as the guy who supplied the AOD (the hotbutton drug at the time), they put him under enormous pressure to submit to be interviewed by ASADA. He was pretty reluctant to get involved but I guess he got sick of chasing Caro away from his bins at 3 in the morning.

 

[marcuz]

But McDelusional said it wasn't a major setback at all.

To be fair to him though he has only been in the job for [insert number here] days

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

But McDelusional said it wasn't a major setback at all.

He just said those quotes to appease the masses so he doesn't look like a knob in the public eye,problem is most people are smart enough to see through his bullshit.

 

[Old Campaigner]

He just said those quotes to appease the masses so he doesn't look like a knob in the public eye.

Yeah it was probably just to try and maintain a bit of public faith in the organisation.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Yeah it was probably just to try and maintain a bit of public faith in the organisation.

Pretty much.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

To be fair to him though he has only been in the job for [insert number here] days

But he was very quick to issue show cause notices eh.

lol won't be long till Mcnuggets hands in his resignation.

 

[Burzum]

Case could collapse by Christmas
Posted by: Jake Bourke | 12 December, 2014 - 12:56 PM

A former Essendon legal advisor says ASADA’s case against the Bombers could collapse by Christmas.

The anti-doping authority suffered a major setback in its case against 34 past and present Essendon players today when it failed in its bid to have two key witnesses – Shane Charter and Nima Alavi – subpoenaed by the Supreme Court to appear at Monday’s tribunal hearing.

Martin Hardie told Nick McCallum that ASADA barely had a leg to stand on entering the hearing.

“I think ASADA have gone too far to withdraw at this point but I can quite possibly see the whole case collapsing,” the former Essendon advisor said.

“It may even be possible the whole case collapses before Christmas.

“Then we’ll have the situation where we’ve had two years of huffing and puffing and chest beating about Essendon doing something wrong and when it comes to the crunch ASADA not being able to put up any evidence.

“ASADA have been conducting what is their normal modus operandi for two years, which is to try and bully people into taking a deal rather than going to a tribunal and putting their case.”

Mr Hardie demanded a new anti-doping authority in Australia.

“I said to David Howman, the director general of WADA, in June last year that the way ASADA was running this case would set the anti-doping cause back 10 years in Australia and what’s happened in the last 18 months has only confirmed that,” he said on 3AW.

“ASADA has destroyed any credibility it had with the Australian community and we really need a new system – one that works, one that respects athletes and respects sport.”

Mr Hardie was asked whether he thought Charter and Alavi could appear at the hearing by choice.

“From what I understand, I think that’s very doubtful,” he said.

LISTEN: Former Essendon legal advisor speaks with 3AW

Silly Martin Hardie, he fails to realise that ASADA wanted to lose this court case.

 

[Matthew_Lloyd]

ASADA can tender the recordings.


But with no affidavit or the right for player lawyers to cross-examine said witness, the evidence will hold very little weight

 

[hollywood23]

I am disappointed they haven't been forced to attend. We should have everything laid out on the table so that everyone could see this case was a non-starter from the outset. There was never any definitive proof that Dank gave the players TB4, but now the common perception will be that the public have been denied the truth because of Charter and Alavi not attending. Their testimony would never have been enough for comfortable satisfaction anyway, so it is frustrating that the players are likely to remain tarnished even when they get off.

Realistically Asada will be under the microscope after this debacle, but they have thrown so much shit at our club that only full exoneration from all charges will be sufficient for us to rebuild our brand and reputation. I fear this now won't happen, even if the tribunal rules in the players favour.

 

[Dan Cooper]

Silly Martin Hardie, he fails to realise that ASADA wanted to lose this court case.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

I am disappointed they haven't been forced to attend. We should have everything laid out on the table so that everyone could see this case was a non-starter from the outset. There was never any definitive proof that Dank gave the players TB4, but now the common perception will be that the public have been denied the truth because of Charter and Alavi not attending. Their testimony would never have been enough for comfortable satisfaction anyway, so it is frustrating that the players are likely to remain tarnished even when they get off.

Realistically Asada will be under the microscope after this debacle, but they have thrown so much shit at our club that only full exoneration from all charges will be sufficient for us to rebuild our brand and reputation. I fear this now won't happen, even if the tribunal rules in the players favour.

Meh people will get over it you watch.

I have no doubt after when this is finished there will be a massive broom going through Asada and their ridiculous anti-doping code.

 

[Dan Cooper]

Almost Doc Martin @MartinHardieUni · 23m23 minutes ago
Mr Starr counsel for asada got himself a cameo in the book with this week's performance

 

[Dan Cooper]

Cerberus retweeted
Richard Ings @ringsau · 1h1 hour ago
Apparently ASADA is "unavailable" for media comment today. I can well imagine ......


Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at ASADA this afternoon

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Almost Doc Martin @MartinHardieUni · 23m23 minutes ago
Mr Starr counsel for asada got himself a cameo in the book with this week's performance

Some one needs to make a gif of him stuttering.

 

[cymarak]

Cerberus retweeted
Richard Ings @ringsau · 1h1 hour ago
Apparently ASADA is "unavailable" for media comment today. I can well imagine ......


Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at ASADA this afternoon

If they're at least half-competent (yes, I know, I know!), they would have prepared for losing the court case just in case it happened.

So we'll find out what they've got on Monday. Or at least the tribunal will, and we'll see what kind of 'summary' the tribunal puts out there.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

All we need now is Asada to be butt ****d next week at the hearing and we can then finally put this sorry saga behind us for good.

Nooo we need another 637 days of court action against every single person that has publicly destroyed EFC reputation

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

Nooo we need another 637 days of court action against every single person that has publicly destroyed EFC reputation

With Caro being the first cab of the rank.

 

[Beerfish]

I am disappointed they haven't been forced to attend. We should have everything laid out on the table so that everyone could see this case was a non-starter from the outset. There was never any definitive proof that Dank gave the players TB4, but now the common perception will be that the public have been denied the truth because of Charter and Alavi not attending.

Totally agree with this in general but I think the implications in terms of the Commercial Arbitrations Act for the AFL going forward if ASADA had won the case would have been a potential disaster.

I'm disappointed that they are not attending of their own free will.