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High, intentional contact, low impact, two weeks reduced to 1 after appeal to CAS.

There's being duped and there is not asking the questions because you dont want to know the answers to. The guys are professional athletes who should have questioned and independently verified the appropriateness of what they were given. especially considering it was a secret, cutting edge...

I really doubt any Essendon players are lookiing to move on because of this, what's happened has happened. And if a player really does want to move on - then Essendon should move them on. You dont want players who dont want to play for the club. I also really doubt that Essendon would do...

All of those punishments were about the players - i'd ban all board members, high ranking officials and senior coaching staff from entering any football ground or holding any position for three years. They're the ones who go your team in this mess and the message needs to be rammed home that if...

Yeah - I'd suspend the whole club for a year, players who aren't part of the suspended 12 can move to any club of their choice, with their current contracts guaranteed by the AFL. As for the fans, you support a team through thick and thin. Essendon have seen some pretty good times and although...

I honestly don't see why the 20 guys recruited to Essendon since 2012, mostly against their will (ie the draft) should be penalised for the transgressions of those who came before them. Apply bans to all board members in 2012, fine the club $10 million and move on

The missing link of the rock promoter shows that Dank's tentacles go much further than first feared and that he was behind the most heinous crime in the entire history of the AFL - Meatloaf's appearance at the 2011 gf.

I'm all for this. It's nice to be nice and everyone at the footy should applaud long any good play, regardless of the team who made the play. Anybody saying anything not nice should be shot out of a canon into the sun.

How many times over the two or three years has this article been posted on BigFooty, four, five?

The government signed up to the WADA treaty and ratified enshrining it Australian Law. If The AFL step away from WADA, then the government are legally required to cease any funding of the AFL, which would include stadiums, or they could abandon WADA, which requires legislation and a major...

It may still work out for Hird financially. By going to court he has thus far avoided the chop of the Essendon board due to the terms of his contract. That time period has seen him come back into the job and consolidate his position. I think its unlikely now that Essendon will move him on, even...

You say that as if it is a bad trait for a head coach

I'm not sure that is relevant any more. The clubs position seems to be that they know what was taken and that it was legal and that ASADA have to prove otherwise - that is very different from saying "I thought what I took was legal, but now I'm not so sure, maybe we can work together to get to...

Wow! Only 25 minutes and 17 replies and you've managed to invoke Godwin's law

the key word there is permanently - that is enough money for a one way ticket only

Hundreds! You make it sound so quaint Try hundreds of thousands, 400,000 directly employed and a spend of 24 billion dollars - that's 24 billion in sixties money. All to put a silver tent in a sand pit in a shed.

I don't see why the investigation should have been handled any differently just becuase of mental-health risk issues That's not to say that this saga can't or hasn't lead to cases of depression, but the threat of the onset of depression is not an excuse to compromise the case. However it is...

have you seen this? http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/oct/23/lost-episodes-of-at-last-the-1948-show-rediscovered

As an aside, was listening to "I'm sorry I'll read that again" earlier today, which was a radio show prior to the goodies with amongst others TBT, BO and John Cleese as well as some contributions from Graham Chapman, well worth a listen if you come across it.

There is no constructive dialogue in this thread.

You cant sue someone for being incompetent at their job. In this case you would have to show material loss as a direct result of activities that breached their contract. Suing Danks is tantamount to saying that he injected the players with illegal substances, that's not exactly in Essendon's...

Apparently Rob Stary is good mates with Peter Gordon, which makes you wonder if it wasn't the Bulldogs who initiated this legal representation in part to protect their own interests

He clearly doesn't take himself seriously at all, funniest guy on SEN.

All of those options would still require a full payout of his contract and $1.5 million bill. Hird is very unlikely to receive an infraction notice - he hasn't been issued with a SC and unless he was supplying, then he is out of scope. What's more he has already been 'punished' for any...

Not sure what we will do with the board. Normally when a hot topic goes cold, the threads get shifted over the main board and this board is moth-balled to await the next hot topic. But the hot topics of the past have been nothing like this - this one has gone nuclear. It's been getting on to two...

Not so sure, given that Hird has disavowed himself as being representative of either the Essendon Football Club or its players, it would be very hard for the the football club to sack him for taking this action. They may well end up sacking him but would now have to pay him out.

To give him some credit, this is a positive, even if much of the rest of the statement was laughable.

I have a lot of trouble reading Robbo's articles It is as if he is sacrificing the english language to generate column inches.

NRL or NFL?