AD with dirty hands from crown, aquire learning and pretty much every role he's had gets a really smooth ride in the media. Must know where some bodies are buried.
How dare you suggest Bruce's star witness won't provide substantive evidence!
Allan Hird must be a game changer and this guy:
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/user/bob_odea
https://www.righttoknow.org.au/user/robert_odea
Been buried but Evans and hird were going to buy into the manufacturer of aod potentially using the Essendon players as examples of success outside traditional medical trials.
There's a bit of background in here...
as i posted earlier 10 year old are taught about personal responsibility when they do gymnastics and other international rep sports.
no matter how dumb the players are some of them must have suspected* they were breaking the codes.
* i assume most of them knew but didn't care because they...
How could they have know better, it's not like 10 years olds get taught this stuff.
No wait they do.
https://www.olympic.org/world-anti-doping-agency-wada
even if it was banned by wada because it worked they'd have still cashed in, the supplement market would have been lucrative.
either the players knew and didn't mind or they didn't know, the fact senior officers of the club were planning to make a private profit is appalling.
...
on the other...
Learning more about how they planned on making a mint on the aod after using the players as apparently unknowing test subjects IS the biggest and most hidden secret.
Which is in itself a breach of multiple laws including the health records Act in Victoria.
Along with the club's contractors breaching various federal Medicare related laws and ama rules
If you read the Middleton judgement* the whole argument Essendon put forward wasn't reasonable doubt but...
they did find that stuff* but it was being injected into hird & goodwin - it may have been in the players too but there was no proof either way.
It was also proved to be used by dank at cronulla.
that latest one is the failed wood pulp plantation i think.
don't forget he did also win the previous news ltd defamation settlement of 80k after they alleged he consorted with bikies
should have been removed on principle but, like the players admitting fault, the afl has no appetite to be 'controversial' and it wont happen.
time for some realism, unless dank drops a bombshell, someone writes a (real) book or a player has serious health complications this is over.
Although ASADA are a federal body, because of the AFL and Essendon release may also be subject to specific Vic acts, Information Privacy Act 2014, Health Record Act 2001, Mental Health Act 2014.
this would all be over if:
-the afl media called it what it WAS a sanctioned drug program
-the players apologised, even if the can't / won't admit guilt
i think that would give the whole thing a natural end. the whole still in denial/boys club/heroes thing rankles a lot of people.
People on here probably would because message boards bring out the worst in people. Personally I thought then and continue to think it now that paying them and supporting the final procedural appeal looked far worse.
Agree to disagree.
Leaving aside the emotion of it all, it is not undeniable.
They were only paid 'because of the optics', normally a suspension would be without pay.
If i was suspended from work for violating my terms of employment I'd not expect to be paid for that period.
There is a murkiness around...
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