Certified Legendary Thread 34 Essendon* Players suspended for doping violations - No opposition fans. Check OP for thread rules

If Essendon* gets slapped on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf, I will .......


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The longer it goes on,, the less confident I get about the players serving anytime at all!
ASADA have so far spent 4 days presenting evidence to the anti-doping tribunal, with more to come. This certainly flies in the face of EFC supporters who would have had you believe that ASADA had nothing, particularly with the refusal of Dumber & Dumber (aka Alavi & Charter) to give evidence at the tribunal or to sign affidavits.
 

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Would it be in the best interests of the game for Essendon to lose players? I don't know anymore.

Could Essendon still field a side during the preseason if they all receive a three month ban? Or will they need to recruit some Bendigo bombers into the team?
 

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It's been too long a time frame for me to maintain the rage adequately. I need someone like Thrawn to remind me what this is all about again.
The club sanctioned medical experiments on players with no regard for their safety and destroyed records of same, however the fault for the disruption to the game and its loss of trust with the fans lies squarely at the feet of those investigating how this was allowed to happen.

If you need help with the timelines of what happened and when, call Mrs Hird. Apparently she takes notes.
 

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Haha. They are seriously going to use the "TB4 shouldn't be a WADA prohibited substance" defence, based on the little bit of information coming out.

The witness was grilled on the benefits of Thymosin Beta 4 and the basis for its prohibition by under the World Anti-Doping Code.
Maybe they have already conceded it was already taken, now are going down the Dank route of "but it shouldn't be banned".
 

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The longer it goes on,, the less confident I get about the players serving anytime at all!
I think the opposite, the longer this goes on, the more Essendon are trying to delay things in order to avoid justice. ASADA going at length isn't really good for them either, means they have a lot on them.
 

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Precautionary. I don't think anybody knows what's going to happen
Either way, they've ****** their list for a number of years. They've done what we did back in 2004 - getting players in from other clubs to prop us up, rather than playing kids. Essendon shouldn't have gone anywhere near these guys.
 

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Would it be in the best interests of the game for Essendon to lose players? I don't know anymore.

Could Essendon still field a side during the preseason if they all receive a three month ban? Or will they need to recruit some Bendigo bombers into the team?
Stopping drug cheating is in the best interests of the game.
 

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The longer it goes on,, the less confident I get about the players serving anytime at all!
Dont think it will really matter that much in the end BB as their brand has been tarnished forever and they will always be associated with the biggest scandal in the games history and labelled drug cheats anyway.:)

Oh and I will never forget replacing them in a finals series and then running down a terribly disappointing Richmond team in an elimination final after they were over 5 goals in front.....;):D
 

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Dont think it will really matter that much in the end BB as their brand has been tarnished forever and they will always be associated with the biggest scandal in the games history and labelled drug cheats anyway.:)

Oh and I will never forget replacing them in a finals series and then running down a terribly disappointing Richmond team in an elimination final after they were over 5 goals in front.....;):D
What a couple of weeks they were.
Beating Port by a point, move into 8th spot thanks to Essendon being booted out of the finals, Port beating Collingwood after McGuire already had his head in the second week of finals, and then we beat Richmond after giving them a 5 goal head start.

Magic!
 
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