firstly, I don't know who you tagged, cos it ain't me!
It all depends doesn't it. On if they've actually done something wrong. Whilst that seems to be a given around here, I'll wait and see. If they have done something wrong, it's a conundrum as I see it. Because if the players know they took something dodgy, then I can't see how they escape with anything less than 2 years. The whole point of the extraordinary circumstances is if they didn't know. So if they try and "plea bargain", presumably that in itself skewers the whole thing, rendering the exercise pointless.
But the central fact is that the "waivers" or whatever the **** we're now calling them were requested and produced on the basis of the substances being administered being legit. And if they were signed off at higher levels, which they were, I'm absolutely inclined to believe they are.
So it's a moot question essentially. Either we're innocent (but still guilty of practices that will see the AFL drop the finezhammer - that is a given for mine); the players are ok because they didn't know, but then the club is screwed from a financial penalty perspective and, more far seriously in my opinion, legal action commences between players and club; or the players were aware, in which case coming forward surely can't help and the whole thing is a cluster**** of the highest order.
If they are innocent of administering banned substances then they take on everyone. And they win.