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Club Legend
An interesting day in court today for those paying attention.
Andruska let it slip that the ASADA investigation was “much wider than just Essendon”, and they had sent blood samples to France in 2011, which were “inconclusive” but gave them reason to think they were “on the right track”.
The interesting thing is Essendon’s program didn’t start until Jan 2012. Dank began at EFC in Nov12 and the first injections were done in Jan12.
I wonder whose blood samples were sent to France? And why? “Much wider than just Essendon”???
The government was the instigator of the whole thing (the “blackest day” press conference) and wanted early scalps with associated political gain.
Maybe the AFL, who were well connected with the ALP government, negotiated a compromise where they would offer up Essendon (the club and its officials, but not the players) as a sacrificial lamb, provided the investigation was restricted to them alone.
The evidence presented to the Federal Court in the last 2 days clearly indicates that ASADA were managed, to deliver on an outcome agreed at the outset between the government and the AFL, and were directed in the investigation by the AFL, with help from the minister whenever it was required, to push them down the agreed path.
As the ACC had been investigating Dank, which presumably yielded much of the background to the “blackest day” presser, might it be that the Gold Coast, where Dank was employed in 2011, were the club whose blood samples were sent to France in 2011 by ASADA?
Any chance the AFL chose to protect its new baby at the expense of a big robust club like EFC?
Conspiracy theory maybe, but the revelations of the last week make you realize just what deviousness and manipulation is going on behind the scenes.
Andruska let it slip that the ASADA investigation was “much wider than just Essendon”, and they had sent blood samples to France in 2011, which were “inconclusive” but gave them reason to think they were “on the right track”.
The interesting thing is Essendon’s program didn’t start until Jan 2012. Dank began at EFC in Nov12 and the first injections were done in Jan12.
I wonder whose blood samples were sent to France? And why? “Much wider than just Essendon”???
The government was the instigator of the whole thing (the “blackest day” press conference) and wanted early scalps with associated political gain.
Maybe the AFL, who were well connected with the ALP government, negotiated a compromise where they would offer up Essendon (the club and its officials, but not the players) as a sacrificial lamb, provided the investigation was restricted to them alone.
The evidence presented to the Federal Court in the last 2 days clearly indicates that ASADA were managed, to deliver on an outcome agreed at the outset between the government and the AFL, and were directed in the investigation by the AFL, with help from the minister whenever it was required, to push them down the agreed path.
As the ACC had been investigating Dank, which presumably yielded much of the background to the “blackest day” presser, might it be that the Gold Coast, where Dank was employed in 2011, were the club whose blood samples were sent to France in 2011 by ASADA?
Any chance the AFL chose to protect its new baby at the expense of a big robust club like EFC?
Conspiracy theory maybe, but the revelations of the last week make you realize just what deviousness and manipulation is going on behind the scenes.
